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'.
Ruaraidh Gilmour
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Journalist @holyroodmag.bsky.social | Ruaraidh.gilmour@holyrood.com |📍Edinburgh
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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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
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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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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“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...
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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BREAKING: Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared as part of the police investigation into the SNP's finances.
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: 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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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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"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...
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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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 www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
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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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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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.
I reviewed Jordan Peterson's new book. Never read anything like it. Really quite deranged. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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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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
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
Brilliant result for Scotland! 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...
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...
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
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.
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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Humza Yousaf said “he is certain” that Musk has access to his private messages, and that he “scours the private messages of those that he sees as a threat”.
Humza Yousaf ‘certain’ Elon Musk has access to his private messages on X www.holyrood.com/news/view,hu...
My latest for @holyroodmag.bsky.social. It covers Liz Smith's 11 year fight to get justice for the victims of Professor Sam Eljamel, her new Member's Bill, and the Scottish Conservatives' "concern" over the challenge from Reform UK.
"Eljamel patients deserve justice and I will continue to fight for it." @ruaraidh0.bsky.social speaks to Liz Smith MSP www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
Humza Yousaf ‘certain’ Elon Musk has access to his private messages on X www.holyrood.com/news/view,hu...
Humza Yousaf ‘certain’ Elon Musk has access his private messages on X
Humza Yousaf said he checked his private messages to make sure he had not made an “off-colour joke” but says “unsurprisi...
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"Eljamel patients deserve justice and I will continue to fight for it." @ruaraidh0.bsky.social speaks to Liz Smith MSP www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
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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New weight-loss jabs available through the NHS are being hailed as “game-changing”, but they are not a magic fix for Scotland’s obesity problem, writes @ruaraidh0.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
New weight-loss jabs are helping slim down Scotland
New weight-loss jabs available through the NHS are being hailed as “game-changing”, but they are not a magic fix for Sco...
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