Mike Wade
@mikewadejournalist.bsky.social
Freelance journalist, formerly long-serving news and features from (mostly) Scotland for The Times. Likes: cats. Dislikes: dogs.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Where I went on my holidays
September 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Where I went on my holidays
Celebration milk bottle from Mills Milk
March 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Celebration milk bottle from Mills Milk
Sign of the times, eh? #leith #edinburgh
March 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Sign of the times, eh? #leith #edinburgh
Beautiful day on the East Lothian coast with loads to see, including a posing oystercatcher and a long-tailed duck, and loads more. #BirdingScotland
March 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Beautiful day on the East Lothian coast with loads to see, including a posing oystercatcher and a long-tailed duck, and loads more. #BirdingScotland
West #Granton tourist trail, #Edinburgh. "Slow cook my shit yuppie scum" #VisitScotland #ScotlandisNow #undiscoveredScotland
March 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
West #Granton tourist trail, #Edinburgh. "Slow cook my shit yuppie scum" #VisitScotland #ScotlandisNow #undiscoveredScotland
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Fantastic article in Perthshire Advertiser yesterday - Perth Civic Trust have applied for #BluePlaques for pioneer photographers David Octavius Hill & Jessie Mann, both born on Watergate. Delighted to see Jessie recognised as possibly first female photographer in Scotland
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March 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Fantastic article in Perthshire Advertiser yesterday - Perth Civic Trust have applied for #BluePlaques for pioneer photographers David Octavius Hill & Jessie Mann, both born on Watergate. Delighted to see Jessie recognised as possibly first female photographer in Scotland
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This is an incredibly raw interview with Jim & Jane Swire who lost Flora, their daughter, in the Lockerbie attrocity. We talked in the Swire's home, and as some home truths came out, everyone of us - cynical reporter & photographer too - was weeping.
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www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Lockerbie 30 years on: Flora Swire’s parents tell of the struggle to cope with her death
Every morning when Jim and Jane Swire wake up they see a vision of their eldest child. On the wall at the end of their bed a larger-than-life painting depicts Flora in a white dress, her face animated...
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March 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This is an incredibly raw interview with Jim & Jane Swire who lost Flora, their daughter, in the Lockerbie attrocity. We talked in the Swire's home, and as some home truths came out, everyone of us - cynical reporter & photographer too - was weeping.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Looking forward to Max Boyce's song to commemorate this Welsh performance.
March 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Looking forward to Max Boyce's song to commemorate this Welsh performance.
Here's a piece about Edinburgh's famous Oxford Bar, beloved of Seamus Heaney, among other Nobel laureates
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Three cheers for the Edinburgh pub that called time on change
National Geographic, four Nobel prizewinners and 007 can’t all be wrong — but what is it about the Oxford Bar that runs nicotine-yellow rings around the rest?
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March 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The (London) Times & Sunday Times is free to use this weekend. You can read some of the news and feature stuff I wrote over about 17 years through this link: www.thetimes.com/profile/mike...
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Mike Wade reported for The Times in Scotland from 2007-24. He has been thrown out of an interview by Donald Trump, joined Alex Salmond in his ministerial limousine on independence referendum day and h
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March 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The (London) Times & Sunday Times is free to use this weekend. You can read some of the news and feature stuff I wrote over about 17 years through this link: www.thetimes.com/profile/mike...
James Kelman, Booker winner & one of Scotland's greatest writers, yet unrecognised in his own country. In this 2022 interview, in Waterstone's cafe, Glasgow he says: 'Nobody in this shop will know who I am. The writer who doesn’t exist.”' #BookSky
Paywall is down www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Paywall is down www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
James Kelman interview: It has been a lonely struggle, says Scotland’s first Booker winner
When the first Scot to win the Booker Prize is sitting in the café by the literature section of Glasgow’s biggest bookshop, a procession of admirers might be e
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March 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
James Kelman, Booker winner & one of Scotland's greatest writers, yet unrecognised in his own country. In this 2022 interview, in Waterstone's cafe, Glasgow he says: 'Nobody in this shop will know who I am. The writer who doesn’t exist.”' #BookSky
Paywall is down www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Paywall is down www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
The Times website is down, good news for Hibees fans who want to read this account of the Cup winniners' victory parade.
www.thetimes.com/article/7600...
www.thetimes.com/article/7600...
Better late than never, Leith puts on the style for returning heroes
Once every millennium is about right for this kind of affair. As the world and his wife knows, Hibernian last won the Scottish Cup at the beginning of the last century. Yesterday, Edinburgh city
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March 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The Times website is down, good news for Hibees fans who want to read this account of the Cup winniners' victory parade.
www.thetimes.com/article/7600...
www.thetimes.com/article/7600...
A reminder from 2015 of how brilliantly the SNP campaigned under Nicola Sturgeon.She stepped away from Scots politics this week.
"The aim is to make Nicola the most accessible politician in the UK, in Europe, in the western world.”
The Times paywall is down
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
"The aim is to make Nicola the most accessible politician in the UK, in Europe, in the western world.”
The Times paywall is down
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Everything clicked in the selfie campaign
The leader smiled, the camera clicked. Forget all the talk of tectonic plates and the national question: the humble selfie delivered the SNP’s landslide.The claim might seem unbelievable, but the
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March 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A reminder from 2015 of how brilliantly the SNP campaigned under Nicola Sturgeon.She stepped away from Scots politics this week.
"The aim is to make Nicola the most accessible politician in the UK, in Europe, in the western world.”
The Times paywall is down
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
"The aim is to make Nicola the most accessible politician in the UK, in Europe, in the western world.”
The Times paywall is down
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Listening to Alexei Sayle on R4 calling out Wes Streeting, David Aaronovitch & David Lammy on behalf of 'us on the left' just before his appearance on Celebrity Antiques Road Trip on BBC2, where, obvs, he's touring antique shops with Enver Hoxha
March 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Listening to Alexei Sayle on R4 calling out Wes Streeting, David Aaronovitch & David Lammy on behalf of 'us on the left' just before his appearance on Celebrity Antiques Road Trip on BBC2, where, obvs, he's touring antique shops with Enver Hoxha
Whooper swans at Culross, Fife #BirdingScotland. Beautiful day for it
March 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Whooper swans at Culross, Fife #BirdingScotland. Beautiful day for it
This is a wonderful book, from a charity shop in #Leith #Edinburgh #booksky. The editor Don Paterson is a minor genius and very funny.
March 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is a wonderful book, from a charity shop in #Leith #Edinburgh #booksky. The editor Don Paterson is a minor genius and very funny.
"Cemetery closed - danger of falling limbs." I took this pic 3 weeks ago - and Warriston Cemetery, #Edinburgh is even more closed now, with hoardings at every entrance. But what if you die, eh? Or want to visit a grave? Or simply to visit this stunningly beautiful place?
Modern life is rubbish.
Modern life is rubbish.
March 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"Cemetery closed - danger of falling limbs." I took this pic 3 weeks ago - and Warriston Cemetery, #Edinburgh is even more closed now, with hoardings at every entrance. But what if you die, eh? Or want to visit a grave? Or simply to visit this stunningly beautiful place?
Modern life is rubbish.
Modern life is rubbish.
'I can't take you far but I can take you away from here.'
March 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
'I can't take you far but I can take you away from here.'
"Trump and Vance have revealed to Americans and to America's allies their alignment with Russia, and their animosity toward Ukraine in general and its president in particular," writes @DavidFrum. "The truth is ugly, but it's necessary to face it." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
March 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"Trump and Vance have revealed to Americans and to America's allies their alignment with Russia, and their animosity toward Ukraine in general and its president in particular," writes @DavidFrum. "The truth is ugly, but it's necessary to face it." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
This morning: four testicles.
March 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
This morning: four testicles.
I liked Jack Vettriano so very sorry to hear of his death. Here's a link to one of many interviews, this one from 2008 - I remember the (aged male) news editor in London getting overly excited about the opening par
www.thetimes.com/article/fame...
www.thetimes.com/article/fame...
Fame, wealth and fast women: where did Vettriano go wrong?
“Show me a man who doesn’t like his shoulder blade pierced by a stiletto heel and I’ll show you a liar,” chuckles Jack Vettriano. He looks up from a copy of his painting, Night Calls, depicting a
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March 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I liked Jack Vettriano so very sorry to hear of his death. Here's a link to one of many interviews, this one from 2008 - I remember the (aged male) news editor in London getting overly excited about the opening par
www.thetimes.com/article/fame...
www.thetimes.com/article/fame...
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Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
March 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro