Lucy Hunter Blackburn
@LucyHunterB · Edinburgh · joined 04 Oct 2014
One of @mbmpolicy. Co-editor of The Frontline @ethelwrites and of The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht. Freelance HE researcher. "Perma-polite" (Private Eye)
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@LucyHunterB people with wealth and privilege continue to have the option of travelling abroad to exercise. I'm thinking skiiing mainly. Ordinary people with the same desire to ski will be denied. And have to use the artificial surface at Hillend. 🫠
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Wherever you stand on this debate, the fact that it has been legalised somewhere else cannot *of itself* be relevant. It is a great example though of how lobby groups that work internationally can create domino effects, and the importance of getting your foot in at least one door
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The policy of the Labour party, at least a Labour party with any connection with its roots, cannot be that whatever the law allows rich people to do overseas should be legal here, as a matter of principle, in order to achieve equality. That’s just ridiculous political theory.
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So people with wealth and privilege will continue to have the option of travelling abroad to exercise additional end of life rights.
But ordinary people with the same conditions will be denied.
This remains a progressive cause.
2/4
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I hear that in a reverse move to balance out the St Paul's nightclub contract, Glastonbury Tor has done a deal with God for regular light shows.
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Police Scotland. Whose job is to police the rest of us.
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Pink Beams of light above St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor tonight at sunset. https://t.co/Ot4Po74pa4
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@LucyHunterB Do women have the human right to not have men’s crimes assigned to them?
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@overlandertheb1 Internal gender ID converts “it’s morally imperative to say this is a woman!”; same people “but we can’t defend it in the press”
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@LucyHunterB @joannaccherry @CallieMac009 That podcast is a highly recommended listen
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Final word to Caroline.
4/4 https://t.co/02fX9p4c28
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More from Caroline. 3/4 https://t.co/4gmubmXgqx
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And here's Caroline's commentary on what it was like inside the heart of the party for those with awkward questions, including about its finances. 2/4 https://t.co/GXUdNz0z9w
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.@joannaccherry and @CallieMac009 first wrote about their experience on the SNP's NEC for The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht two years ago, and have both now given longer accounts.
The material is all out there.
Here's what Joanna wrote. 1/4 https://t.co/7Hph1OTH9q
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Strongly recommend anyone covering Murrell case listens to this, for the detailed account from @calliemac of the treatment of members of the SNP's NEC, including those raising concerns about the finances. @alexmassie @davieclegg @DSanderson_85 @andrewlearmonth @alistairkgrant
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Former SNP councillor & Women’s Convener Caroline McAllister breaks her silence on the GRR bill, self-ID & the bullying that followed. From defending single-sex spaces for abuse survivors to watching her own party try to sack her – this is the insider view you need to hear. https
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Against accounts of the same size
11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views1 167this account1 038median for 10K–100K
Reach, %6.34%this account3.64%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %2.59%this account1.69%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 1 167 | 1 038 | 1.12× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 6.34% | 3.64% | 1.74× |
| Engagement rate | 2.59% | 1.69% | 1.54× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
1.3K25 May
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361
1.5K6 Sep
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1.1K
486
527
42.5K11 Sep
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884
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
4.34%25 May
5.57%
3.05%
1.77%6 Sep
0.43%
2.59%
14.85%
3.57%
0.41%
5.31%
0.28%11 Sep
1.18%
3.25%
4.64%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.69%.
What the audience does
Likes78.1%2 508 in total
Reposts16.3%524 in total
Replies2.6%82 in total
Quotes0.6%19 in total
Bookmarks2.4%77 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
7 Sep
Daily snapshots since 07 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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