Claire Black

@scottiesays

Recently liberated journalist. Gestalt therapist.

Edinburgh
claireblacktherapy.com
Joined February 2009
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    Apr 2

    "The sense of despair that younger adults feel at the prospect of having their EU citizenship taken away from them cannot be overestimated.This isn’t something they will just get over. It is a profound betrayal.They were born EU citizens." Great piece.

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    Mar 23

    “On the face of it he had everything” 84 men take their own lives every week in the UK, but what are their stories? launches Monday 26 March.

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    Mar 31

    So sick of commentators with zero knowledge or expertise parachuting into the trans experience and constructing arguments out of hearsay, lies, unfounded fears, and unrepresentative anecdote. This is anti-journalism, and it’s everywhere.

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    Mar 30

    The pitfalls of "visibility" in a culture where trans people have no power, the invisibility of trans men, media silence on anti trans violence - my thoughts for ahead of Trans Day of Visibility:

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    Mar 28

    The words of have turned out to be correct: "if it's happening to us, it's happening to you."

    Nine in 10 women in the UK work at a company that pays women less, according to the most comprehensive gender pay gap data ever collected in any country
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    Mar 30

    Weird… this is exactly what I think every morning when I wake up.

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    Mar 30

    A Freedom of Information request has revealed that in the space of just 2 years the Tories have spent a staggering £108 million trying to stop sick & disabled people getting the financial help they are entitied to. This includes people with cancer. £1 million, every single week.

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    Mar 30

    How interesting. has leaked an email I sent him to . Is this normal behaviour for a government minister? via

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    Mar 28

    This is Jeff Silvester, boss of Vote Leave's Canadian data firm AIQ visiting Number 10 last autumn. I'm told his AIQ colleague Zack Massingham went with him, and they also visited Conservative HQ. Number 10 have yet to answer my question as to what their visit was about

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    Mar 20

    Cambridge Analytica suspended CEO Nix? Pffft. Nix has already started a new company ‘Emerdata Ltd’ in the UK and Rebekah Mercer was appointed Director On March 16, 2018. 🙄

    JUST IN: Cambridge Analytica says its board has suspended CEO Alexander Nix with immediate effect pending an investigation after Channel 4 investigative reports.
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    Mar 20

    Chief Executive of , David Liddell, described the figures as “alarming” and warned “we have an uncontained HIV outbreak in Scotland’s largest city”.

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  12. Mar 19

    Feels like the tectonic plates are shifting. Morning!

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    Mar 19

    Weinstein Co. files for bankruptcy, nullifies all nondisclosure agreements

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    Mar 19

    Jordan Peterson here, helpfully linking to a surgical demolition of his own output

    You arrogant, racist son of a bitch Pankaj Mishra: How dare you accuse me of "harmlessly romancing the noble savage." That's how you refer to my friend Charles Joseph (), who I've worked with for 15 years?
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    Mar 19

    The BBC main UK website right now. Cambridge Analytica is not just a technology story, promise.

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    Mar 19

    Anyone know any judges?

    The ICO is trying to get a warrant tonight to go in tonight. BUT no judge available...
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    Mar 19

    If you are watching the Cambridge Analytica story unfold, please please support our journalism. We’ve fought off 3 legal threats from CA & 1 from Facebook. It’s a whole year’s work & we gave it to & for the greater good. We need you!

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    Mar 17

    This is the former director of the CIA, folks. What a time to be alive.

    When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you.
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    Mar 17

    BREAKING: It's taken a long & exhausting year to get Christopher Wylie out and on the record. Here, finally, is his truly extraordinary insider's view of making 'Steve Bannon's psychological warfare tool'

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  20. Mar 17

    So is a hero.

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