Alistair Grant
@alistairkgrant.bsky.social
Journalist. Political editor of The Scotsman.
Holyrood's committee structure is a "joke" and the quality of debate is "woeful", the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats has said:
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Scottish Parliament committee structure a 'joke' and debate quality 'woeful' - party leader
Alex Cole-Hamilton blasted the ‘woeful’ standard of debate in the Scottish Parliament
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November 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Holyrood's committee structure is a "joke" and the quality of debate is "woeful", the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats has said:
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Dream jobs do come along… I’ve spent the last few months immersed in BBC Scotland’s City Lights as Assistant Producer on a new 60min doc telling the story of the show. With vintage clips + new interviews, it’s pure dead brilliant!
On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
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On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Dream jobs do come along… I’ve spent the last few months immersed in BBC Scotland’s City Lights as Assistant Producer on a new 60min doc telling the story of the show. With vintage clips + new interviews, it’s pure dead brilliant!
On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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“The effect is mesmerising: it captures better than anything I know the strange hypnogogic state between sleeping and waking when the world itself feels woozily pliant to the near-conscious mind.” This a fantastic piece.
John Masefield’s The Midnight Folk is probably my favourite children’s book. I tried to explain why.
The Midnight Folk: memory, magic, and consolation
The private griefs and terrors behind John Masefield's classic children's book
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November 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
“The effect is mesmerising: it captures better than anything I know the strange hypnogogic state between sleeping and waking when the world itself feels woozily pliant to the near-conscious mind.” This a fantastic piece.
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When I finished my travels, never in my lifetime had Scotland felt so adrift and cut off from itself, writes @dominicmhinde.bsky.social for @scotsman.com here: www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
His new book 'Drifting north' is out now! #Scotland #booksky
His new book 'Drifting north' is out now! #Scotland #booksky
US-style inequality, closed libraries and potholes: What I found on two-year journey around Scotland
When I finished my travels, never in my lifetime had Scotland felt so adrift and cut off from itself, writes Dominic Hinde
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November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
When I finished my travels, never in my lifetime had Scotland felt so adrift and cut off from itself, writes @dominicmhinde.bsky.social for @scotsman.com here: www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
His new book 'Drifting north' is out now! #Scotland #booksky
His new book 'Drifting north' is out now! #Scotland #booksky
Fewer than one in five of those who voted Labour at the general election in Scotland last year approve of the party's record in government to date, damning new polling has found:
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Damning view of Labour voters in Scotland over UK government record revealed in new poll
New polling lays bare the challenge facing Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar at Holyrood next year
www.scotsman.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Fewer than one in five of those who voted Labour at the general election in Scotland last year approve of the party's record in government to date, damning new polling has found:
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Bit of old-school light relief from me in today’s Guardian. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
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November 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Bit of old-school light relief from me in today’s Guardian. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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🔴 Exclusive: Culture Secretary Angus Robertson denies misleading Parliament over Historic Environment Scotland scandal, via @alistairkgrant.bsky.social
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SNP minister denies misleading Parliament over Historic Environment Scotland scandal
The Tories previously said Angus Robertson, the senior SNP minister, had ‘serious questions to answer’
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November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🔴 Exclusive: Culture Secretary Angus Robertson denies misleading Parliament over Historic Environment Scotland scandal, via @alistairkgrant.bsky.social
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🔴 SNP minister Angus Robertson denies misleading Parliament over Historic Environment Scotland scandal
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SNP minister denies misleading Parliament over Historic Environment Scotland scandal
The Tories previously said Angus Robertson, the senior SNP minister, had ‘serious questions to answer’
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November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🔴 SNP minister Angus Robertson denies misleading Parliament over Historic Environment Scotland scandal
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Scottish Government special advisers 'must be brought out of the shadows and exposed to scrutiny'
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Scottish Government special advisers 'must be brought out of the shadows and exposed'
A new book co-written by a former first minister calls the current situation ‘unacceptable’
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November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Scottish Government special advisers 'must be brought out of the shadows and exposed to scrutiny'
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Hard agree - I interviewed Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod about My Old School a few years ago, it's such a brilliant, gentle dissection of an extraordinary lie and it's consequences
If you haven't seen it, My Old School is currently on iPlayer. A top, top documentary.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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My Old School
The story of Scotland's most notorious impostor. A 16-year-old boy is the new kid at school and becomes a model pupil - until he is unmasked.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Hard agree - I interviewed Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod about My Old School a few years ago, it's such a brilliant, gentle dissection of an extraordinary lie and it's consequences
If you haven't seen it, My Old School is currently on iPlayer. A top, top documentary.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
My Old School
The story of Scotland's most notorious impostor. A 16-year-old boy is the new kid at school and becomes a model pupil - until he is unmasked.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
If you haven't seen it, My Old School is currently on iPlayer. A top, top documentary.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Alex Salmond died with debts of nearly £350,000, formal notice reveals, via @alistairkgrant.bsky.social
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Alex Salmond died with debts of nearly £350,000, formal notice reveals
The former first minister Alex Salmond died of a heart attack at a conference in North Macedonia last year
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November 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Alex Salmond died with debts of nearly £350,000, formal notice reveals, via @alistairkgrant.bsky.social
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💥 Allegations of corruption, racism claims and a row over twerking…
This week’s episode of The Steamie takes you inside the Historic Environment Scotland meltdown.
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This week’s episode of The Steamie takes you inside the Historic Environment Scotland meltdown.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5Rmw...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
💥 Allegations of corruption, racism claims and a row over twerking…
This week’s episode of The Steamie takes you inside the Historic Environment Scotland meltdown.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5Rmw...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
This week’s episode of The Steamie takes you inside the Historic Environment Scotland meltdown.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5Rmw...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
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Workers 'face tax hammer blow' as John Swinney fails to rule out hikes, via @alistairkgrant.bsky.social
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Workers 'face tax hammer blow' as John Swinney fails to rule out hikes
John Swinney, the First Minister, was repeatedly asked about possible tax increases in Holyrood
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November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Workers 'face tax hammer blow' as John Swinney fails to rule out hikes, via @alistairkgrant.bsky.social
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🔴 A total of 27 prisoners have been mistakenly released from Scottish prisons in recent years, official figures show.
2022/23 - 8
2023/24 - 7
2024/25 - 9
2025/26 (up to 22 Oct) - 3
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2022/23 - 8
2023/24 - 7
2024/25 - 9
2025/26 (up to 22 Oct) - 3
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Revealed: Dozens of prisoners released by mistake in Scotland
The Scottish Prison Service confirmed the figures
www.scotsman.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🔴 A total of 27 prisoners have been mistakenly released from Scottish prisons in recent years, official figures show.
2022/23 - 8
2023/24 - 7
2024/25 - 9
2025/26 (up to 22 Oct) - 3
www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
2022/23 - 8
2023/24 - 7
2024/25 - 9
2025/26 (up to 22 Oct) - 3
www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
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“Bark Park is not simply a museum. It is simultaneously my home, my laboratory, and a living environment inhabited by my own creations. Its strength lies in that integration — where I live, love, and invent among my wows." This is an excellent story www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/2559442...
Row over 'eyesore' front garden is at stalemate after bid to move it
PLANS to explore an alternative venue for a Fife man’s ‘Bark Park’ creation in his front garden appear to have reached a stalemate after…
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November 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“Bark Park is not simply a museum. It is simultaneously my home, my laboratory, and a living environment inhabited by my own creations. Its strength lies in that integration — where I live, love, and invent among my wows." This is an excellent story www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/2559442...
Elon Musk's AI tool Grok apologises after calling SNP MP Pete Wishart a 'rape enabler'
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Elon Musk's AI tool Grok apologises after calling SNP MP 'rape enabler'
Pete Wishart said the allegation on X was ‘shocking’
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November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Elon Musk's AI tool Grok apologises after calling SNP MP Pete Wishart a 'rape enabler'
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Scotland's housing crisis is being weaponised to create division over refugees and asylum seekers, a charity boss has warned:
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Scotland's housing crisis 'is being weaponised' to create division, warns charity
Alison Watson, the director of Shelter Scotland, warned of ‘widespread misinformation’
www.scotsman.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Scotland's housing crisis is being weaponised to create division over refugees and asylum seekers, a charity boss has warned:
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Peter Watkins, 1935-2025
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90
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The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90
www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
Peter Watkins obituary: radical British filmmaker behind The War Game and Punishment Park
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.
www.bfi.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Peter Watkins, 1935-2025
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90
www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90
www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
🚨🎧 Latest episode of The Steamie out now!
Featuring an interview with @cdbirt.bsky.social of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on poverty in Scotland, and what the charity wants to see in next year’s manifestos.
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Featuring an interview with @cdbirt.bsky.social of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on poverty in Scotland, and what the charity wants to see in next year’s manifestos.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5uR4...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
October 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🚨🎧 Latest episode of The Steamie out now!
Featuring an interview with @cdbirt.bsky.social of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on poverty in Scotland, and what the charity wants to see in next year’s manifestos.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5uR4...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Featuring an interview with @cdbirt.bsky.social of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on poverty in Scotland, and what the charity wants to see in next year’s manifestos.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5uR4...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Recapturing some of that much-missed video rental store magic courtesy of Edinburgh libraries.
October 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Recapturing some of that much-missed video rental store magic courtesy of Edinburgh libraries.