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Alistair Grant

@alistairkgrant.bsky.social

Journalist. Political editor of The Scotsman.

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Dr Francis Young@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d ago

I reviewed @profdarryljones.bsky.social's new biography of M. R. James. Long-awaited by fans, and surely the most important book about MRJ yet to appear this century: drfrancisyoung.com/2026/09/28/r... 📚👻📜

Review: ‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ by Darryl Jones

Darryl Jones, For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James (Oxford University Press, 2026), 437pp. M. R. James did not make it easy for anyone to write his biography. He introduced this difficult…

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Alistair Grant@alistairkgrant.bsky.social · last wk.

🔴 Inside Barlinnie: How Scotland's largest prison is hanging by a thread An eye-opening visit to Barlinnie earlier this week, where I interviewed governor Michael Stoney and saw inside E block, which houses 310 sex offenders (design capacity 186): www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Inside Barlinnie: How Scotland's largest prison is hanging by a thread

The Scotland on Sunday goes behind bars to discover the real impact of prison overcrowding

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Alistair Grant@alistairkgrant.bsky.social · last mo.

Can’t quite believe how long it’s taken me to get to this, particularly given how much I would have loved it as a teenager (I’ve seen the film), but just finished the audiobook of this and man was it good.

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Gavin Miller@drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thanks to @alistairkgrant.bsky.social for this great coverage of my UFO project at NTS property Newhailes House running for next 4 weeks or so over summer @davidwclarke.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk @gegh.bsky.social @dmcmenemy.bsky.social #UFOs www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Project sheds light on hidden UFO history of country house near Edinburgh

Sir Mark Dalrymple, the third baronet of New Hailes, was the honorary chairman of the Scottish UFO Research Society

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Alistair Grant@alistairkgrant.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Amnesty International UK says the report that labelled JK Rowling’s Beira’s Place and For Women Scotland “anti-rights groups” was uploaded to its website “without going through the established internal review processes”:

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵@threadinburgh.scot · 3mo ago

The La Scala and the Classic were different guises of the same cinema. A remarkable survivor, a recent planning application for this long-vacant building… https://threadinburgh.scot/2026/07/06/the-sally-army-the-scabby-lala-and-x-rated-in-the-city-the-thread-about-the-la-scala-electric-theatre/

The Sally Army, the “Scabby Lala” and X-Rated in the City: the thread about the La Scala Electric Theatre

The La Scala and the Classic were different guises of the same cinema. A remarkable survivor, a recent planning application for this long-vacant building provides an excuse to reflect on its surprisingly long, interesting history: at times pioneering, at times pious and at times seedy.

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