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Profile: Iain Macwhirter

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Iain Macwhirter is the political commentator of the The Herald and the Sunday Herald, an author and documentary film and radio presenter and a former Rector of Edinburgh University. He has worked at both the UK Parliament and Scottish Parliament, presenting the BBC2 programmes Westminster Live, Scrutiny and, from 1999, the BBC TV Holyrood Live programme from the Scottish Parliament.

Latest articles from Iain Macwhirter

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

Iain Macwhirter: So Nicola Sturgeon forgets stuff. Get over it.

When Nicola Sturgeon finally appears before the Holyrood committee investigating the Salmond affair, she will be insulated by that shield of moral self-confidence that has become her trade mark. More in sorrow than in anger, the First Minister will loftily condemn her detractors for impugning her integrity.

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Alex Salmond

Iain Macwhirter: The Salmond inquiry failed to scratch the surface of an epic scandal

Alex Salmond decided that there was little point in giving evidence to the Holyrood Harassment Inquiry yesterday, leaving an empty chair. He clearly thought that the chair could speak more eloquently than could under the circumstances. He may be right.

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Iain Macwhirter: It seems Cherry was sacked for thinking that women are female

Iain Macwhirter: Was Cherry sacked for thinking that women are female?

“WHEESHT for Indy”. This is the code used on social media by SNP folk attempting to silence comment on the party's manifold internal crises. Don't rock the boat, they say. Wait until after independence. Look at the bigger picture. Well, yesterday an even bigger picture dwarfed the independence campaign, and the boat has sunk with all hands.

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Iain Macwhirter: Scots may loathe him, but Boris doesn’t give a damn about Plan B

Iain Macwhirter: Scots may loathe him, but Boris doesn’t give a damn about Plan B

JUST what Scotland needs as the pandemic reaches a climax: a blond, tousled super-spreader coming north to infect us with a new variant of unionism. And possibly worse. SNP MPs like John Nicolson are condemning Boris Johnson for breaking his own Covid rules and visiting Scotland this week. It's worse than Dominic Cummings – at least he only went to Barnard Castle.

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Rt Hon James Wolffe QC, Lord Advocate, gives evidence at a Scottish Parliament Justice committee tuesday..Pic Gordon Terris/The Herald.17/1/17.

Iain Macwhirter: Like a fish, Scotland's Crown Office is rotting from the head down

FOURTEEN million, ￡20 million, ￡24 million – the eye-watering sum in damages being awarded to the administrators wrongly prosecuted for fraud over the Rangers bankruptcy, seems to grow larger by the day.

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson with warehouse supervisor Laurence Wilkinson during a tour of the manufacturing facility for the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine at Oxford Biomedica in Oxfordshire this week

Iain Macwhirter: The 'me first' vaccine grab risks a deep sense of global injustice

HOW did that happen? Britain has vaccinated an astonishing four million vulnerable people against Covid-19 only three weeks into the New Year. Government ministers and the NHS are beside themselves. Critics are dumbfounded. After all the problems of mass testing, it seems there's something we can actually get right.

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Iain Macwhirter: Invisible man Leonard has left Scottish Labour without vision

Iain Macwhirter: Invisible man Leonard has left Scottish Labour without vision

“Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, we’ll keep the Red Flag flying here.” So goes Jim Connell’s 1889 anthem, traditionally sung at the end of every Labour Party conference. For Neil Findlay MSP, Labour’s former Scottish health spokesman, to label his Labour frontbench comrades Jackie Baillie and Anas Sarwar as “flinching cowards and sneering traitors” is about as bad as it gets.

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Supporters of President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana).

Iain Macwhirter: Trump's stupid white riot has handed the future to the left

“White riot, I wanna riot. White riot, of my own” so sang The Clash back in 1977. That could have served as the anthem of the motley Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol, seat of American democracy, on Wednesday. The lyric expresses the demented rage of the angry white men, spurred on by Donald Trump into their own copycat race riot.

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Statistically, warehouse workers were among the worst in the first wave of the virus

Iain Macwhirter: Lockdown will again hit the low-paid harder than the rest

HERE we go again. Happy New Lockdown. Those of us fortunate enough to be able to work at home will no doubt sit this out, as we did last time, watching Netflix while bickering and complaining on Twitter. Meanwhile a whole army of anonymous folk will rush around servicing us, the petty potentates who do our bit by doing nowt.

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nicola sturgeon

Iain Macwhirter: Can Nicola Sturgeon finally deliver an independence referendum in 2021?

There is only one question that matters in Scottish politics in 2021: will there be a firm date for indyref2? And yes, I said something very similar last year, and indeed the year before that. The non-appearance of the independence referendum has been the great shaggy dog story of the last five years, since Nicola Sturgeon first started promising it.

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