Chris Marshall

Nicola Sturgeon has broken her promise to Scotland’s young people Sturgeon and the SNP’s soaring rhetoric has not been met with the same action on the ground

Nicola Sturgeon has announced that she’s working on a novel, a 'counterfactual political thriller', but the happy ending she promised Scotland's young people is yet to be written, says @chrismarshll.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

Is it a page-turner? Well, there are some plot-like activities...

Nicola Sturgeon has broken her promise to Scotland’s young people Sturgeon and the SNP’s soaring rhetoric has not been met with the same action on the ground

Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP made a promise to Scotland's young people, so far it's one they've failed to keep www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting the…

It's quite wrong to suggest Robert Jenrick is a racist. Racists believe in something. My SKETCH.

We're all doomed if English literature students can't read books It’s a whole new cause of gloom to discover that even students who have actively signed up to study English Literature are struggling to read

"Novels ask us (in an age when the dominant cultural impulse is to demand the admiration of others) to imagine what it might be like to be somebody else." www.spectator.co.uk/article/were...

French PM and government resign The new administration had been appointed less than twelve hours before resigning.

New French prime minister resigns less than 12 hours after naming members of his cabinet www.politico.eu/article/fren...

Until this country faces down the far-right, I won’t take any pride in our flags Flags have long been co-opted for nefarious purposes – the prime minister has finally recognised that

Until this country faces down the far-right, I won’t take any pride in our flags, says @louisewilso.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

Every GP practice must now offer online booking Move comes despite opposition from union, with ministers saying NHS needs to embrace digital tech.

Except in Scotland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sarkozy found guilty in Gadhafi case The former French president was accused of accepting illicit campaign donations from the Libyan dictator.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of taking part in a criminal association but was cleared of corruption charges after being accused of accepting illicit campaign donations from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi when he ran for president in 2007.

'The prostate cancer support groups are filled with men who tried to get a test and couldn’t' Despite an ambition to catch cancers sooner, many prostate cancer patients are still being given devastating late diagno...

'The prostate cancer support groups are filled with men who tried to get a test and couldn’t' www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

When it comes to prostate cancer treatment in Scotland, where you live really matters.

The target is for 95% of patients to begin treatment with 62 days of referral - only one health board comes close to meeting that.

Same shit, different decade

'The prostate cancer support groups are filled with men who tried to get a test and couldn’t' Despite an ambition to catch cancers sooner, many prostate cancer patients are still being given devastating late diagno...

"Scottish men shouldn’t be having worse outcomes than men in other parts of the UK – it’s not right," says Sir Chris Hoy

Despite an ambition to catch cancers sooner, many prostate cancer patients are still being given devastating late diagnoses www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here?

For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

I left Twitter and don't regret it. This analysis is based on a flawed understanding of what it became under Musk: right-wing voices were amplified and if you were there for right-wing voices, you were very unlikely to see anything else.

Irvine Welsh: It's the centrists who are the villains The Trainspotting novelist on the gender wars, Scottish independence and why his most famous novel wouldn't get publishe...

"Things like Gaza are showing people what we’ve been supporting all these years… it’s the centrists who are the villains." www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

Irvine Welsh: It's the centrists who are the villains The Trainspotting novelist on the gender wars, Scottish independence and why his most famous novel wouldn't get publishe...

"Things like Gaza are showing people what we’ve been supporting all these years… it’s the centrists who are the villains."

I interviewed @irvinewelsh.bsky.social for the latest @holyroodmag.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

The Gently Mad, Inverleith

Social media is a mixed blessing but you can't deny the effect Instagram has had on Edinburgh's book shops

Thank you

Ah, will get that changed!

Irvine Welsh: It's the centrists who are the villains The Trainspotting novelist on the gender wars, Scottish independence and why his most famous novel wouldn't get publishe...

"Things like Gaza are showing people what we’ve been supporting all these years… it’s the centrists who are the villains."

I interviewed @irvinewelsh.bsky.social for the latest @holyroodmag.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

The self-appointed defenders of free speech are only interested in elevating right-wing voices The fragility of those on the left has allowed those on the right to claim they are the true defenders of free speech. M...

The self-appointed defenders of free speech are only interested in elevating right-wing voices www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

The self-appointed defenders of free speech are only interested in elevating right-wing voices The fragility of those on the left has allowed those on the right to claim they are the true defenders of free speech. M...

The fragility of those on the left has allowed those on the right to claim they are the true defenders of free speech. More often than not, this freedom extends only rightwards. www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

The self-appointed defenders of free speech are only interested in elevating right-wing voices The fragility of those on the left has allowed those on the right to claim they are the true defenders of free speech. M...

Political parties, even those with just five MPs, should be careful about who they legitimise by providing a platform, writes @chrismarshll.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

'Nuns on the Run' was right there

Secret Report Undercuts U.K. Condemnations of Pro-Palestinian Group

The British government banned Palestine Action under an antiterrorism law, but an intelligence document said most of its activity “would not be classified as terrorism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

Scotland play Belarus later in a match behind closed doors, a punishment for Minsk's support of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Trump calls Belarus' dictator president Lukashenko "a very respected man, strong person, strong leader". Like Putin, Lukashenko's political opponents die in prison.