Ruaraidh Gilmour
@ruaraidh0.bsky.social
Journalist @holyroodmag.bsky.social | Ruaraidh.gilmour@holyrood.com |📍Edinburgh
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Last night my aunt, Sheila Begbie, was inducted into the Scottish football Hall of Fame. A trailblazer, a legend, a hero - she is also one of the nicest people you'll ever meet.
After I visited the San Siro to watch Milan some years ago, she said, 'Oh, I played there for Scotland once'.
After I visited the San Siro to watch Milan some years ago, she said, 'Oh, I played there for Scotland once'.
May 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Last night my aunt, Sheila Begbie, was inducted into the Scottish football Hall of Fame. A trailblazer, a legend, a hero - she is also one of the nicest people you'll ever meet.
After I visited the San Siro to watch Milan some years ago, she said, 'Oh, I played there for Scotland once'.
After I visited the San Siro to watch Milan some years ago, she said, 'Oh, I played there for Scotland once'.
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Experts say child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) are in "crisis" amid questions over the amount of progress made in cutting waiting times. www.holyrood.com/inside-polit... By @ruaraidh0.bsky.social
CAMHS progress questioned amid lack of standardisation across Scottish health boards
Findings suggest that the 90 per cent referral-to-treatment target may not reflect the reality of access to therapeutic ...
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May 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Experts say child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) are in "crisis" amid questions over the amount of progress made in cutting waiting times. www.holyrood.com/inside-polit... By @ruaraidh0.bsky.social
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Seat projections based on the new Survation poll commissioned by Truth North Advisors:
Con 13
Lab 18
LibDem 10
SNP 58
Green 8
Reform 21
Con 13
Lab 18
LibDem 10
SNP 58
Green 8
Reform 21
May 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Seat projections based on the new Survation poll commissioned by Truth North Advisors:
Con 13
Lab 18
LibDem 10
SNP 58
Green 8
Reform 21
Con 13
Lab 18
LibDem 10
SNP 58
Green 8
Reform 21
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Switching lanes: Scotland's plan to make transport more sustainable www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Switching lanes: Scotland's plan to make transport more sustainable
The Scottish Government is consulting on a plan to move the country towards a more sustainable transport system, but the...
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April 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Switching lanes: Scotland's plan to make transport more sustainable www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
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Anna Dominiczak is on a mission to drive innovation in the NHS and strengthen Scotland’s unique ‘triple helix’ www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Anna Dominiczak: Health innovation requires the NHS, academia and the life sciences industry
Anna Dominiczak is on a mission to drive innovation in the NHS and strengthen Scotland’s unique ‘triple helix’
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April 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Anna Dominiczak is on a mission to drive innovation in the NHS and strengthen Scotland’s unique ‘triple helix’ www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
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“There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that these cuts are going to impoverish already vulnerable and disadvantaged people living in our society today."
Labour MP @brianleishmanmp.bsky.social speaks to @ruaraidh0.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Labour MP @brianleishmanmp.bsky.social speaks to @ruaraidh0.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Brian Leishman: Stepping up
Eight months on since being elected as the MP for Alloa and Grangemouth, Brian Leishman has become one of the loudest cr...
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March 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
“There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that these cuts are going to impoverish already vulnerable and disadvantaged people living in our society today."
Labour MP @brianleishmanmp.bsky.social speaks to @ruaraidh0.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Labour MP @brianleishmanmp.bsky.social speaks to @ruaraidh0.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
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BREAKING: Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared as part of the police investigation into the SNP's finances.
March 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
BREAKING: Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared as part of the police investigation into the SNP's finances.
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Scottish football isn’t always something to shout about but it’s having wins off the pitch, says @ruaraidh0.bsky.social
Community Goals: Channelling Football to Enrich Lives www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Community Goals: Channelling Football to Enrich Lives www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Community Goals: Channeling Football to Enrich Lives
Scottish football isn’t always something to shout about but it’s having wins off the pitch
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February 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Scottish football isn’t always something to shout about but it’s having wins off the pitch, says @ruaraidh0.bsky.social
Community Goals: Channelling Football to Enrich Lives www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Community Goals: Channelling Football to Enrich Lives www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
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Tory MSP Liz Smith will not contest the next Holyrood election, she has announced. She's been in parliament since 2007.
Liz Smith: These people deserve justice and I will continue to fight to get that justice
After winning the Holyrood Garden Party & Political Awards Political Hero award for her 11 years campaigning for justice...
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February 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Tory MSP Liz Smith will not contest the next Holyrood election, she has announced. She's been in parliament since 2007.
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"You cannot please everyone and I think what it is selling at the moment is Reform is the solution to everything. It’s not.”
Tory MP Harriet Cross speaks to @ruaraidh0.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Tory MP Harriet Cross speaks to @ruaraidh0.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Harriet Cross: Reform aren’t driving the debate at Westminster
Harriet Cross is seen as a rising star in the Conservatives, but she is firmly focused on constituency matters as her pa...
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February 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"You cannot please everyone and I think what it is selling at the moment is Reform is the solution to everything. It’s not.”
Tory MP Harriet Cross speaks to @ruaraidh0.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Tory MP Harriet Cross speaks to @ruaraidh0.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Elaine Stewart, the MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock, describes the effects of “fourth-generation unemployment” in the former mining towns she serves.
“The last 14 years have become so much worse – worse than it was in the 80s.”
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“The last 14 years have become so much worse – worse than it was in the 80s.”
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Elaine Stewart: Poverty is worse than it was in the 80s
Much of Elaine Stewart’s constituency still suffers from the effects of the mining industry collapse in the 1980s but th...
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December 10, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Elaine Stewart, the MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock, describes the effects of “fourth-generation unemployment” in the former mining towns she serves.
“The last 14 years have become so much worse – worse than it was in the 80s.”
@holyroodmag.bsky.social
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“The last 14 years have become so much worse – worse than it was in the 80s.”
@holyroodmag.bsky.social
www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
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Stephen Flynn drops ‘double jobbing’ plan after SNP backlash www.holyrood.com/news/view,st...
Stephen Flynn drops ‘double jobbing’ plan after SNP backlash
The SNP’s Stephen Flynn has said he will no longer be seeking a “dual mandate” by standing for Holyrood while still an M...
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November 21, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Stephen Flynn drops ‘double jobbing’ plan after SNP backlash www.holyrood.com/news/view,st...
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NEW: The man who threw an egg and became involved in a punch-up with John Prescott, Craig Evans, has told the Press Association he had "no regrets", adding that his thoughts were with the late politician's loved ones.
November 21, 2024 at 3:18 PM
NEW: The man who threw an egg and became involved in a punch-up with John Prescott, Craig Evans, has told the Press Association he had "no regrets", adding that his thoughts were with the late politician's loved ones.
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I reviewed Jordan Peterson's new book. Never read anything like it. Really quite deranged.
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We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review — rambling, hectoring and mad
The conservative polemicist’s new book is a bizarre study of the Bible featuring Jiminy Cricket, Harry Potter and Tinkerbell the porn fairy
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November 20, 2024 at 8:13 AM
I reviewed Jordan Peterson's new book. Never read anything like it. Really quite deranged.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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Ultimately a very decent result. Hopefully Georgia or Estonia can do us a turn tomorrow
November 18, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Ultimately a very decent result. Hopefully Georgia or Estonia can do us a turn tomorrow
Scotland have Poland on the ropes here. No glorious failure tonight please
November 18, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Scotland have Poland on the ropes here. No glorious failure tonight please
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Made a Scottish football starter pack of writers and outlets.
If I have missed anyone obvious out please let me know 👇
go.bsky.app/CF292Fw
If I have missed anyone obvious out please let me know 👇
go.bsky.app/CF292Fw
November 16, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Made a Scottish football starter pack of writers and outlets.
If I have missed anyone obvious out please let me know 👇
go.bsky.app/CF292Fw
If I have missed anyone obvious out please let me know 👇
go.bsky.app/CF292Fw
Brilliant result for Scotland!
Ben Doak looks seriously promising 🏴
Ben Doak looks seriously promising 🏴
November 15, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Brilliant result for Scotland!
Ben Doak looks seriously promising 🏴
Ben Doak looks seriously promising 🏴
A really great feature by @kirsteenpaterson.bsky.social
They were, judges said, the 'most dismal' towns in Scotland. But a lot has happened since then - my latest for @holyroodmag.bsky.social looks at how people power has changed the face of 'Carbuncle' towns www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Building a difference: What happened to former 'Carbuncle' towns?
Building a difference: What happened to former 'Carbuncle' towns?
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November 15, 2024 at 12:10 PM
A really great feature by @kirsteenpaterson.bsky.social
A fun interview with one of Labour’s new MPs Elaine Stewart
"I found solace in the punk movement...I think that’s where my politics and activism come from. I suppose the anarchist in me came out."
Getting to Know You: Labour MP Elaine Stewart www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Getting to Know You: Labour MP Elaine Stewart www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Getting to Know You: Elaine Stewart
The MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock tells Ruaraidh Gilmour about becoming a punk in school and moving to New York City a...
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November 15, 2024 at 10:21 AM
A fun interview with one of Labour’s new MPs Elaine Stewart
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Welcome to our new followers. Here's a starter pack with some of our journalists and all the MSPs on Bluesky so far go.bsky.app/MuDEUwe
November 15, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Welcome to our new followers. Here's a starter pack with some of our journalists and all the MSPs on Bluesky so far go.bsky.app/MuDEUwe
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BREAKING: The Scottish Government says the National Care Service Bill will not progress to the next stage of parliamentary scrutiny later this month, as was planned.
November 14, 2024 at 11:05 AM
BREAKING: The Scottish Government says the National Care Service Bill will not progress to the next stage of parliamentary scrutiny later this month, as was planned.
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National Care Service plan delayed by Scottish Government www.holyrood.com/news/view,na...
National Care Service plan shelved by Scottish Government
Maree Todd confirmed the government would not press ahead with the bill as planned while it considers next steps
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November 14, 2024 at 11:38 AM
National Care Service plan delayed by Scottish Government www.holyrood.com/news/view,na...