@JacobAD82

Scotland reporter @telegraph / Tips to [email protected]

 Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined April 2021
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The National
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Tomorrow's front page 📰 Labour accused of 'climate vandalism' after approving Jackdaw gas field
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Lucy Dunn
@lucyidunnOct 21
Some irritation at FM being asked about a reserved issue. Worth pointing out that the SG, last month, called for energy powers to be devolved to Holyrood, so it’s reasonable to expect John Swinney holds a view Other reserved issues: whisky duty, foreign affairs, independence
Lucy Dunn
@lucyidunnOct 21
🔴 NEW: The Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea has been approved by the UK government When I asked First Minister John Swinney last week if he backed the projects, he refused to give me a straight answer and laid out an energy strategy with no mention of drilling 👇
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NEW Students are being given instructions on how to exclude Zionists from university societies by describing Zionism as racism in their constitutions Inspired by the Green Party, a pro-Palestine student group at Glasgow Uni gave freshers leaflets which said:
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The group is not affiliated with the university And their spox said it would not accept the exclusion of students from societies if they're Zionist
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Interesting how many of the speakers at Edinburgh’s 7/10 rally have American accents
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Hugo Gye@HugoGyeOct 2
Good scoop by the world's best student newspaper, @VarsityUK - James Orr has been getting a grad student to deliver some of his Cambridge lectures: varsity.co.uk/news/32175 Always thought that being *both* a don and a political operative looked a bit unsustainable

Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad 

James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge

varsity.co.uk
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Maurício Alencar@MauricioFCA_Oct 2
It’s a very good splash from the Tabs at @VarsityUK
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Maurício Alencar@MauricioFCA_Oct 2
It’s a very good splash from the Tabs at @VarsityUK
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Martin Lewis
@MartinSLewisSep 27
On a packed train with my family. Couple across the aisle both alternatively playing social media videos on speakers at full volume. Managed not to say anything until the woman started playing a documentary about serial killers. I'm here with my daughter. I politely said "please could you turn it down it's not appropriate." To which she replied "I'm sure she's heard worse at school." I said that really wasn't her call to make and in general could she please reduce the volume. Her response "Its a public train for heavens sake". For me that's exactly why it is anti social (and what headphones were invented for). I'm wondering which one of us is out of kilter on this? Ps I should note she did thankfully reduce the volume and we all left it there.
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Ben Judah
@b_judahSep 26
This story confirms a deep fear of mine. That out of a mixture of carelessness, incompetence, indifference and denial the Home Office is rubber stamping terrorists, that would like to kill people like me and my family, access to the country. This should provoke a real reckoning.
Gabriel Pogrund
@Gabriel_PogrundSep 26
EXCLUSIVE: The former bodyguard of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas, was given asylum and citizenship in the UK — then “plotted” huge foiled terror attack targeting Jews in Europe last year Mr X had legal anonymity for 100 years: Sunday Times quashed this thetimes.com/uk/crime/articl…
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Gabriel Pogrund
@Gabriel_PogrundSep 26
EXCLUSIVE: The former bodyguard of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas, was given asylum and citizenship in the UK — then “plotted” huge foiled terror attack targeting Jews in Europe last year Mr X had legal anonymity for 100 years: Sunday Times quashed this thetimes.com/uk/crime/articl…
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Rowland Manthorpe
@rowlsmanthorpeSep 16
If you want to understand why it’s so hard to pause the AI race, the best place to start is Prozac My latest for @skynews:
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Reform leader kicking off FMQs with our story last week xitter.cf/JacobAD82/status/20929…
Jacob Freedland@JacobAD82Aug 27
EXC Refugees are being 'prioritised' for council housing in Edinburgh Council suspended its normal policy to absorb city's bulging homeless population (driven mainly by the rise in asylum seekers given LtR) Means since Apr 2025, ordinary applicants have had claims put on ice
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The Telegraph
@TelegraphAug 27
Homeless people in Edinburgh who have effectively had their asylum claim approved have been moved to the top of the waiting list for social housing under a policy instituted in April 2025 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08…
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EXC Refugees are being 'prioritised' for council housing in Edinburgh Council suspended its normal policy to absorb city's bulging homeless population (driven mainly by the rise in asylum seekers given LtR) Means since Apr 2025, ordinary applicants have had claims put on ice
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To manage this, councillors paused the letting of properties to ordinary applicants - not disabled / at risk - to free up space Which in effect, regardless of intention, gave priority to homeless applicants - a growing proportion of which are refugees
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Full story here: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08…

Asylum seekers bumped to top of council housing list

SNP policy blamed as locals frozen out by Edinburgh’s growing population of homeless refugees

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