Alistair Grant

Nothing quite prepares you for the avalanche of damning details in this.

The Scotsman and Scotland 2050 to host Holyrood election hustings The hustings is your chance to grill politicians on the issues that matter to you

Want to grill representatives from all of Holyrood's political parties ahead of the election?

Come along to the Scotland 2050 hustings at the Assembly Rooms on March 31, chaired by @scotsman.com

Tickets are free:

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Cost of troubled Cairngorm railway may outweigh its benefits, MSPs warn A new report by Holyrood’s public audit committee raises questions about the funicular’s future

Cost of troubled Cairngorm railway may outweigh its benefits, MSPs warn

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Most of my job doesn't involve staring at a computer, it involves talking to people and reading books, and both of those, in different ways, tell me that we will have big problems if *30 per cent of working people in the UK* lose their jobs in the next 15 to 18 months.

If you love journalism and the inky, hard-bitten romance of newspapers, Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists is a total treat.

Tories pledge to ban new low emission zones in Scotland The party said it would also reconsider ‘punitive fines’

EXC: Tories pledge to ban new low emission zones in Scotland

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Reform's Malcolm Offord rumoured to be plotting bid to take on Jackie Baillie Ms Baillie, Scottish Labour’s deputy leader, said she will ‘campaign tirelessly’ in Dumbarton

'Bring it on': Reform's Malcolm Offord rumoured to be plotting bid to take on Jackie Baillie

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🚨 New episode of The Steamie!

We assess an extraordinary week for Anas Sarwar & Scottish Labour

Plus, I talk to James Macintyre about his new biography of Gordon Brown

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Gordon Brown: Power with Purpose by James Macintyre review: 'persuasive' This new biography paints a picture of a man of substance driven by a deep moral purpose, writes Alistair Grant

I reviewed the new biography of Gordon Brown by James Macintyre, which is published today:

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Sarwar open to campaigning with Starmer despite urging him to quit The Scottish Labour leader called on the Prime Minister to resign on Monday

Sarwar open to campaigning with Starmer despite urging him to quit

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‘Politics of the dunghill’: How an ‘odious’ by-election 90 years ago gripped Scotland The sons of two British prime ministers faced off amid blizzards and bad luck

Wrote about the electoral contest on everyone’s lips…

…that’s right, the extraordinary Ross and Cromarty by-election of February 1936!

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‘Politics of the dunghill’: How an ‘odious’ by-election 90 years ago gripped Scotland The sons of two British prime ministers faced off amid blizzards and bad luck

Wrote about the electoral contest on everyone’s lips…

…that’s right, the extraordinary Ross and Cromarty by-election of February 1936!

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Former health secretary Jeane Freeman dies aged 72 The former SNP MSP served as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport from 2018-2021.

Former Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman dies aged 72

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A map of Scotland showing Aberdeen Dyce Airport with a cloudy weather symbol and a text box reading "Longest time with no sunshine on record"

Wondering where the sunshine has gone?

Spare a thought for northeast Scotland; Aberdeen Dyce hasn't recorded any sunshine since 21 January! This is provisionally the longest sunless period here since records began in 1957 ☁️

Swinney has confidence in Fiona McQueen despite 'Disneyland' comments in hospital row Anas Sarwar argued the Scottish Government should be ashamed of “bribes rather than truth and justice”.

After my reporting of Fiona McQueen's "Disneyland" comments on @scotsman.com was raised at FMQs today, John Swinney has full confidence in her to continue as chair of the Scottish Police Authority.
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The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.

Gordon Brown: I was always against Project Fear The former prime minister refers to the ‘ludicrous nature’ of the Better Together campaign in a new book

Gordon Brown: I was always against Project Fear

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Edinburgh tomb of philosopher David Hume vandalised with ‘satanic’ symbols Tour guide reports drawing of naked woman pointing knife at baby and coded writing at Old Calton burial ground

Interesting follow up to this story on The Guardian’s website today:

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Grindcore is the new hustle culture In Silicon Valley, long hours have fused with a monastic male wellness aesthetic

I read this, and I am freshly reminded that one of the most important insights in humanism is that this our one and only life.

🚨 New episode of The Steamie out now!

100 days to go (give or take) until the Holyrood election.

What’s the state of play?

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Indeed! I was just defending the way the paragraph was written.

I was reflecting her position that she would have voted against it at the time, but the issue was now settled, and she would not seek to reopen it or remove that right.

Enjoyed the subject line of the latest Scottish Liberal Democrat press release.

Gordon Brown 'appalled by treatment of Kate Forbes' after religious backlash A new book reveals the former prime minister considered making an intervention over the issue

Gordon Brown was “appalled” by the treatment of Kate Forbes over her socially conservative religious views during the SNP leadership election in 2023, a new biography says:

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Policing is devolved in Scotland and Northern Ireland, so I imagine this won't be controversial at all.

Saw Chicken Run at ‘toddler cinema club’ and have now answered precisely 1,748 questions about chickens and pies

What a film.

Primo Levi’s The Girl-Child of Pompeii