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Louise Wilson
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Political Editor ✍🏻 Holyrood magazine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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It wouldn't have been possible anyway - a point Sturgeon herself made again today. SG didn't have powers/finances for a furlough scheme.
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
She said: “It was a very conscious and deliberate decision at the outset of the pandemic to lead from the front and to make very clear that the buck stopped with me.

“I want to be clear today that I stand by that decision and if the clock was to be turned back, I would make that decision again.”
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
And this one I wrote in Feb 2024, about four months after the initial Grangemouth announced.

If just transition can't be delivered at Grangemouth, how can any industrial community be sure they will get one? www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Grangemouth transition: If not here, where?
For all the promises of a just transition, the planned closure of Scotland’s last oil refinery seems to have caught both...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This one I wrote a year ago, before the refinery ceased operations.

A lack of planning from either govt was “a pretty big gap left by government”, one Petroineos insider told me. www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Burned: Grangemouth workers are falling through the gap between rhetoric and action
In this first test of the just transition, both governments are failing
www.holyrood.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I've written extensively for @holyroodmag.bsky.social about the failures and gaps at Grangemouth, and the wider transition. Much of this also applies to Mossmorran.

Latest here & in most recent mag: www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Grangemouth: 'We could still clutch victory.... but you need to hurry up'
The failure to ensure a just transition at Grangemouth has caused alarm. But not all hope is lost
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November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I look forward to your commentary.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I actually missed *all* the goals! But I have caught up now, on the assumption my curse cannot change history... Or maybe that's a risk too far.
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Both websites appear to be back online again.
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The day we moved away from dial-up was truly revolutionary. I could Neopets all day without interruption.
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Less romantic, dumped my first boyfriend via MSN. (We also met on holiday so I wasn't in a position to do it in person. Also I was about 12).
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM