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Stuart Gillespie
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Journalist formerly at The Galloway News, St Mirren fan, motorsport lover, cake eater, runner. Sarcasm and cynicism guaranteed. Views my own and usually nonsense.
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Thank you Grahame Morris MP for raising mass redundancies at Reach and “the continued erosion of our media landscape” in Parliament this morning. We look forward to meeting MPs and the DCMS Secretary of State to help protect quality journalism.
October 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The NUJ has issued notice to ballot members for industrial action at The Mirror and Reach's Scottish titles in a dispute over job losses, workloads, and artificial intelligence.

The NUJ has asked members to vote ‘yes’ to both strike action and action short of strike.

www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
NUJ issues formal ballot notices to Reach over mass redundancies
The NUJ has submitted formal notices to ballot members for industrial action at The Mirror and Reach plc’s Scottish titles in a dispute over job losses, unreasonable workloads, and the use of artifici...
www.nuj.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Pulitzer Prize for this guy.
A former editor of The Independent has suggested news companies are more likely to use time savings created by AI to sack staff than to redeploy them to do more original journalism buff.ly/D01K0bX
March 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Not staying up until midnight. Quite literally…
December 31, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Fannies, presumably from both Saints and Dundee, fighting near the station. People shouting at the stewards to do something and they just stand there. No police in sight at a known trouble spot.

Lovely end to the football when you don’t feel safe walking back to your car.
December 29, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Poor from us. No complaints at the result.
December 29, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Rangers, Celtic and ach who cares?
December 29, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Not a Saturday but looks like the thread needs another update 👀
Saints' late Saturday shenanigans.

St Mirren have had a fairly dramatic end to their last five games. A thread. 🧵
December 26, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🎁☃️❄️
December 25, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Your annual reminder of the greatest Christmas Eve ever.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g9Z...
St Mirren 2 Rangers 1, December 24 2011
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December 24, 2024 at 9:19 AM
It’s like the BBC think they’d be shut down if they didn’t start Sportscene with one of the Old Firm.
December 21, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Outstanding 🤩
A festive three points! 🎄

Safe journey home, Saints!
December 21, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Saints' late Saturday shenanigans.

St Mirren have had a fairly dramatic end to their last five games. A thread. 🧵
December 15, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Finishing games normally is boring.
December 14, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Sneaky stuff from The Guardian releasing an archive episode of Football Weekly when staff are on strike (I marked it as played, didn’t and won’t listen).

Solidarity with @gonuj.org
December 12, 2024 at 8:28 AM
Solidarity with Guardian and Observer journalists ✊
Hear me now - no Guardian Football Weekly podcast today or tomorrow, thank you please. I'll be joining my dear colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. Follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver
December 4, 2024 at 6:48 AM
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Hear me now - no Guardian Football Weekly podcast today or tomorrow, thank you please. I'll be joining my dear colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. Follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver
December 4, 2024 at 12:00 AM
I would have been furious if Liverpool fans hadn’t chanted that song.
Manchester City may have lost at Anfield today but at least their manager and goalkeeper didn’t react to what was a harmless, throwaway chant late on in the game in either a weirdly sensitive or incredibly distasteful manner.

Oh.
December 2, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Don’t care which one of them is doing it, the whole thing with #F1 drivers grassing each other up is a nonsense and needs to stop.

At the very least stop broadcasting the radio messages of them clyping.
December 1, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Pep must be relieved that new contract doesn’t have a relegation release clause.
November 23, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Saints have won two of their last three home games.

Guess which was the only one I was at 😐
November 23, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Of course we win when I decide not to travel due to the weather 😂

Another late Aberdeen bottle job in Paisley into the bargain.
November 23, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Obligatory snow pictures #snow
November 23, 2024 at 9:31 AM