Alistair Grant
@alistairkgrant.bsky.social
Journalist. Political editor of The Scotsman.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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
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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
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2022/23 - 8
2023/24 - 7
2024/25 - 9
2025/26 (up to 22 Oct) - 3
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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’
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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
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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.
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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.
🗳️ Daytime count confirmed for Scottish Parliament election in May.
Disappointing news for those of us who use the overnight count as an excuse to eat our body weight in Haribo.
Disappointing news for those of us who use the overnight count as an excuse to eat our body weight in Haribo.
October 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🗳️ Daytime count confirmed for Scottish Parliament election in May.
Disappointing news for those of us who use the overnight count as an excuse to eat our body weight in Haribo.
Disappointing news for those of us who use the overnight count as an excuse to eat our body weight in Haribo.
🔴 EXC: The Scottish Funding Council spent £602,000 on a damning investigation into Dundee University's financial crisis.
Documents show costs rose substantially as the complexity of the situation became apparent:
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Documents show costs rose substantially as the complexity of the situation became apparent:
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'Staggering' cost of damning probe into Dundee University crisis revealed
Documents show costs rose substantially when the complexity of the situation became apparent
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October 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🔴 EXC: The Scottish Funding Council spent £602,000 on a damning investigation into Dundee University's financial crisis.
Documents show costs rose substantially as the complexity of the situation became apparent:
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Documents show costs rose substantially as the complexity of the situation became apparent:
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Rise of Farage's Reform UK will boost the Alba Party, says its leader
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Rise of Farage's Reform UK will boost the Alba Party, says its leader
Kenny MacAskill predicted Alba will ‘break through’ at May’s Holyrood election
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October 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Rise of Farage's Reform UK will boost the Alba Party, says its leader
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🔴 EXC: Police probing ‘irregularities’ in Alba Party's finances after concern raised by leadership
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Police probing ‘irregularities’ in Alba finances after concern raised by leadership
It comes amid a bitter row with former general secretary Chris McEleny
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October 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
🔴 EXC: Police probing ‘irregularities’ in Alba Party's finances after concern raised by leadership
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Elderly suffering 'unknown horror story' due to Highland care shortage
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Elderly suffering 'unknown horror story' due to Highland care shortage
Angus MacDonald MP called the current system ‘inhumane’
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October 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Elderly suffering 'unknown horror story' due to Highland care shortage
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🔴 Trans 'racism' comparison sparked internal Scottish Government row
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Trans 'racism' comparison sparked internal Scottish Government row
Documents show friction following the landmark Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman
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October 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🔴 Trans 'racism' comparison sparked internal Scottish Government row
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A good couple of years behind the trend here, but read this on holiday and really enjoyed it.
October 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A good couple of years behind the trend here, but read this on holiday and really enjoyed it.