JohnNicolson
@johnnicolson.bsky.social
Journalist. Scottish. European. Harvard & U of Glasgow alumnus. Harkness Fellow. Kennedy scholarship. Ex US Senate speechwriter, BBC & ITV news anchor and Member of Parliament. He/him.
http://www.youtube.com/@JohnNicolsonChannel
http://www.youtube.com/@JohnNicolsonChannel
We now know - from the #CovidInquiry - that 23000 people in England died because Boris Johnson wouldn’t focus & agree to a lockdown in time. Where we needed a serious & focussed Prime Minister we had instead a lazy, lying clown. People lost their lives as a result.
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We now know - from the #CovidInquiry - that 23000 people in England died because Boris Johnson wouldn’t focus & agree to a lockdown in time. Where we needed a serious & focussed Prime Minister we had instead a lazy, lying clown. People lost their lives as a result.
Many things I don’t miss about being an MP. But I do miss my constituents and constituency event visits - especially seeing all the brilliant creativity from the weans in the run up to Christmas.
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Many things I don’t miss about being an MP. But I do miss my constituents and constituency event visits - especially seeing all the brilliant creativity from the weans in the run up to Christmas.
Internal Tory polling reveals the party is headed for just 14 seats if the election was held tomorrow. Pushing Brexit through. Electing Johnson. Then Truss. Inventing an immigration crisis. Tories have created the petri dish for the Faragist virus to grow & kill off their party.
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Internal Tory polling reveals the party is headed for just 14 seats if the election was held tomorrow. Pushing Brexit through. Electing Johnson. Then Truss. Inventing an immigration crisis. Tories have created the petri dish for the Faragist virus to grow & kill off their party.
It’s Scottish Book Trust’s annual ‘Books Week Scotland’. What have you been reading? Here’s my cosy book reading spot at home! The chair (Eames La Chaise) is a lot more comfy than it looks.
On the shelves you’ll see a collection of my Uncle Bobby’s novels (1960s Glasgow author Robert Nicolson.)
On the shelves you’ll see a collection of my Uncle Bobby’s novels (1960s Glasgow author Robert Nicolson.)
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It’s Scottish Book Trust’s annual ‘Books Week Scotland’. What have you been reading? Here’s my cosy book reading spot at home! The chair (Eames La Chaise) is a lot more comfy than it looks.
On the shelves you’ll see a collection of my Uncle Bobby’s novels (1960s Glasgow author Robert Nicolson.)
On the shelves you’ll see a collection of my Uncle Bobby’s novels (1960s Glasgow author Robert Nicolson.)
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗡𝗣. On Scotland's side 👏
More than 880,000 pensioners are to receive help with their heating bills this winter from the Scottish Government
Winter heating payments have begun, with eligible people of state pension age set to receive between £101.70 and £305.10, depending on their circumstances.
news.stv.tv/scotland/mor...
Winter heating payments have begun, with eligible people of state pension age set to receive between £101.70 and £305.10, depending on their circumstances.
news.stv.tv/scotland/mor...
More than 880,000 pensioners to receive help with heating bills this winter
Eligible people of state pension age set to receive between £101.70 and £305.10, depending on their circumstances.
news.stv.tv
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗡𝗣. On Scotland's side 👏
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It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
As temperatures plunge how’s this Starmer Labour pledge working for you?
November 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
As temperatures plunge how’s this Starmer Labour pledge working for you?
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For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
Labour drops back yet further as Greens surge in England. Reform still well out in front.
Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @Ipsos_in_the_UK
Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @Ipsos_in_the_UK
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Labour drops back yet further as Greens surge in England. Reform still well out in front.
Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @Ipsos_in_the_UK
Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @Ipsos_in_the_UK
Big birthday celebrations for the Glasgow University Union last night. We presented the wee silver trophy in the foreground to commemorate our 1983 World Student Debating Championship win at @Princeton Frank McKirgan & I persuaded the US audience to ‘regret’ their Declaration of Independence….
November 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Big birthday celebrations for the Glasgow University Union last night. We presented the wee silver trophy in the foreground to commemorate our 1983 World Student Debating Championship win at @Princeton Frank McKirgan & I persuaded the US audience to ‘regret’ their Declaration of Independence….
We keep hearing about Starmer’s multiple broken promises. For me perhaps the most unforgivable was over #Gaza Israeli war crimes & his abandoned leadership campaign human rights pledges.
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
We keep hearing about Starmer’s multiple broken promises. For me perhaps the most unforgivable was over #Gaza Israeli war crimes & his abandoned leadership campaign human rights pledges.
I love a bit of restoration. Here’s our new cludgie. Victorian pan from @GWauction with E bay seat purchase, restored and wood grained. Before and after. Took a lot of work…. Cistern box is new.
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I love a bit of restoration. Here’s our new cludgie. Victorian pan from @GWauction with E bay seat purchase, restored and wood grained. Before and after. Took a lot of work…. Cistern box is new.
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NEW: Unemployment in Scotland fell slightly in the last quarter while the UK rate has risen to its highest level in more than four years, according to the latest figures
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
NEW: Unemployment in Scotland fell slightly in the last quarter while the UK rate has risen to its highest level in more than four years, according to the latest figures
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Starmer’s allies fear a leadership challenge: his “chaotic strategy pushes Labour MPs toward regime change..driven to the brink by the party’s woeful standing. But as one Labour MP said: (No 10) could try not being paranoid and just try being better.”
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Starmer’s allies fear a leadership challenge: his “chaotic strategy pushes Labour MPs toward regime change..driven to the brink by the party’s woeful standing. But as one Labour MP said: (No 10) could try not being paranoid and just try being better.”
Trouble in Labour Paradise… “Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over a leadership challenge…No 10 ‘sources’ increasingly worried that Wes Streeting could be planning an imminent coup against the prime minister.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Trouble in Labour Paradise… “Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over a leadership challenge…No 10 ‘sources’ increasingly worried that Wes Streeting could be planning an imminent coup against the prime minister.”
Pleasure to join Stephen on @TimesRadio earlier to talk about BBC, objectivity, and Trump.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Pleasure to join Stephen on @TimesRadio earlier to talk about BBC, objectivity, and Trump.
So is ex Tory spin doctor and Boris Johnson appointee Sir Robbie Gibb now an impartial BBC board member? If so, why did he like an anti SNP tweet? Well the (Tory) ex BBC Chair told me Gibb’s finger accidentally passed over the “telephone” & “the heart got pressed.”
Comedy gold.
Comedy gold.
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
So is ex Tory spin doctor and Boris Johnson appointee Sir Robbie Gibb now an impartial BBC board member? If so, why did he like an anti SNP tweet? Well the (Tory) ex BBC Chair told me Gibb’s finger accidentally passed over the “telephone” & “the heart got pressed.”
Comedy gold.
Comedy gold.
I wonder if outgoing BBC Director General Tim Davie still thinks Sir Robbie Gibb “understands and supports” him? I suspect not.
I questioned Tim Davie about former Tory spin doctor Gibb - a Boris Johnson appointee. What was his role on the BBC Board?
I questioned Tim Davie about former Tory spin doctor Gibb - a Boris Johnson appointee. What was his role on the BBC Board?
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I wonder if outgoing BBC Director General Tim Davie still thinks Sir Robbie Gibb “understands and supports” him? I suspect not.
I questioned Tim Davie about former Tory spin doctor Gibb - a Boris Johnson appointee. What was his role on the BBC Board?
I questioned Tim Davie about former Tory spin doctor Gibb - a Boris Johnson appointee. What was his role on the BBC Board?
I’ll be popping up on @lbc shortly to talk about the BBC crisis & Donald Trump. Tune in if you can.
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I’ll be popping up on @lbc shortly to talk about the BBC crisis & Donald Trump. Tune in if you can.
Johnson & Trump in all our attack against the BBC for spreading ‘left wing fake news’. You gotta laugh. Are there two Western politicians less familiar with the truth than these two?
Here’s #Trump today posting a lie that Obama gets “royalties” from
Obamacare health provision.
Here’s #Trump today posting a lie that Obama gets “royalties” from
Obamacare health provision.
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Johnson & Trump in all our attack against the BBC for spreading ‘left wing fake news’. You gotta laugh. Are there two Western politicians less familiar with the truth than these two?
Here’s #Trump today posting a lie that Obama gets “royalties” from
Obamacare health provision.
Here’s #Trump today posting a lie that Obama gets “royalties” from
Obamacare health provision.
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A tale of two countries. Reform surge continues in England. @theSNP hold clear lead in Scotland. Starmer leading Labour to historic defeat - fourth place in votes, fifth in seats.
Polling: @FindoutnowUK Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @FindoutnowUK Graphics: @LeftieStats
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
A tale of two countries. Reform surge continues in England. @theSNP hold clear lead in Scotland. Starmer leading Labour to historic defeat - fourth place in votes, fifth in seats.
Polling: @FindoutnowUK Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @FindoutnowUK Graphics: @LeftieStats
Ah this old canard - used by right wing UK governments to traduce their enemies on the left for decades. See Wilson, Foot, Kinnock, Miliburn & Corbyn. Now used by Starmer cronies against @theSNP - a “threat to UK security” apparently. Desperate. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Ah this old canard - used by right wing UK governments to traduce their enemies on the left for decades. See Wilson, Foot, Kinnock, Miliburn & Corbyn. Now used by Starmer cronies against @theSNP - a “threat to UK security” apparently. Desperate. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Risible. Looking forward to the embarrassed NY Post follow up story…..
November 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Risible. Looking forward to the embarrassed NY Post follow up story…..
I was invited on as a guest for the launch edition. I said I’d want to talk about #Putin & his human rights record especially attacks on #LGBT people & the press…I heard nothing further: “Salmond’s firm was paid £30k a week for Kremlin-backed TV show.” www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Alex Salmond’s firm was paid £30k a week for Kremlin-backed TV show
The former first minister rented a luxury apartment overlooking Big Ben while hosting his eponymous show for the Russian station RT
www.thetimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I was invited on as a guest for the launch edition. I said I’d want to talk about #Putin & his human rights record especially attacks on #LGBT people & the press…I heard nothing further: “Salmond’s firm was paid £30k a week for Kremlin-backed TV show.” www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...