@graemewsmith.bsky.social
Newspaper journalist for 28 years. Former editor of The Herald. Now in council comms.
My pic from the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, St. Etienne, as Scotland lined up for their last match at a World Cup finals, on 23 June 1998. At full-time, upset kids were being consoled by their parents. Now those young fans may well be planning a football odyssey with their own children next summer.
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
My pic from the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, St. Etienne, as Scotland lined up for their last match at a World Cup finals, on 23 June 1998. At full-time, upset kids were being consoled by their parents. Now those young fans may well be planning a football odyssey with their own children next summer.
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"But let’s not allow the ruling to feed into the illusion that we are now living in a world in which women have the upper hand." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on the Supreme Court judgement on the application of Scotland's rape shield laws. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
Supreme Court ruling reignites debate over Scotland’s rape shield laws
The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Scotland’s rape shield laws has sparked fears of appeals and delays, raising difficult questions about…
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November 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"But let’s not allow the ruling to feed into the illusion that we are now living in a world in which women have the upper hand." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on the Supreme Court judgement on the application of Scotland's rape shield laws. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
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What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
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"As for the monarchy, it will end not with a bang but a whimper. Giuffre’s book, with all its harrowing details, is one more wave battering against its cliff face, eroding the public’s faith." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
'From beyond the grave, Virginia Giuffre has proved not even princes are untouchable'
Virginia Giuffre has proved that not even princes are untouchable. From beyond the grave, she is doing her best to ensure nobody else is ever…
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November 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"As for the monarchy, it will end not with a bang but a whimper. Giuffre’s book, with all its harrowing details, is one more wave battering against its cliff face, eroding the public’s faith." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
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Really delighted to have been shortlisted for the features category at the British Journalism Awards 2025 alongside some of my favourite writers. pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...
October 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Really delighted to have been shortlisted for the features category at the British Journalism Awards 2025 alongside some of my favourite writers. pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...
A beautiful review by Teddy befitting of last night's farewell.
I was fortunate enough to be at Edwyn Collins's final ever Scottish gig in Edinburgh last night.
www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
What an emotional night as Scots pop star calls it quits as he walks off stage
Review: Edwyn Collins, The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh: What an emotional night as one of Scottish pop’s most idiosyncratic talents walked off the…
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October 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A beautiful review by Teddy befitting of last night's farewell.
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Joan Baez meets the Stones backstage at the Glasgow Odeon, October 1965
October 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Joan Baez meets the Stones backstage at the Glasgow Odeon, October 1965
Thursday, Edinburgh. Can’t wait.
"Edwyn Collins is allergic to nostalgia, but gave the impression that he was saying goodbye to these songs, skimming them like stones on a loch."
It was a privilege to attend and write about the Glasgow date of this farewell tour. www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
It was a privilege to attend and write about the Glasgow date of this farewell tour. www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
Edwyn Collins review — a beautiful, five-star goodbye
The Scottish singer’s farewell tour, prompted by ill health at the age of 66, introduced new songs and brought together his old band mates in a stunning concert
www.thetimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Thursday, Edinburgh. Can’t wait.
You only have until Saturday to catch the impressive Paula Rego Visions of English Literature exhibition at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock. Features her take on classic nursery rhymes and Peter Pan, amongst others.
September 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
You only have until Saturday to catch the impressive Paula Rego Visions of English Literature exhibition at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock. Features her take on classic nursery rhymes and Peter Pan, amongst others.
It’s September…
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It’s September…
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Really chuffed to be shortlisted for the Wigtown Book Festival's Anne Brown prize again. I love non-fiction essays, reading them & writing them, & the award provides a rare opportunity to have a go. Good luck to everyone.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Really chuffed to be shortlisted for the Wigtown Book Festival's Anne Brown prize again. I love non-fiction essays, reading them & writing them, & the award provides a rare opportunity to have a go. Good luck to everyone.
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💫Released on this day 1982💥
#musicsky #recordingsky #recordingstudiosky #musicmoments #musicthread #musicproduction #onthisday
#musicsky #recordingsky #recordingstudiosky #musicmoments #musicthread #musicproduction #onthisday
September 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
💫Released on this day 1982💥
#musicsky #recordingsky #recordingstudiosky #musicmoments #musicthread #musicproduction #onthisday
#musicsky #recordingsky #recordingstudiosky #musicmoments #musicthread #musicproduction #onthisday
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“Here flags are not a symbol not of hate, but of unity and peace,” Mayor Campani tells me. On a weekend marred by racist protests, I visited Barga, Italy's most Scottish town, and a festival which celebrates all that is good about emigration/immigration. www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
Pipers, ceilidhs and Celtic strips: why Barga is the most Scottish town in Italy
More than 150 years of back and forth migration to Scotland have turned this commune into a unique hybrid.
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September 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
“Here flags are not a symbol not of hate, but of unity and peace,” Mayor Campani tells me. On a weekend marred by racist protests, I visited Barga, Italy's most Scottish town, and a festival which celebrates all that is good about emigration/immigration. www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
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Happy publication day @peteralanross.bsky.social Upon A White Horse is a celebration of landscape and people - and all that is beautiful, strange and old.
Out now: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHorse
Out now: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHorse
September 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Happy publication day @peteralanross.bsky.social Upon A White Horse is a celebration of landscape and people - and all that is beautiful, strange and old.
Out now: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHorse
Out now: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHorse
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"In the de-Sturgeonisation process that took place in the wake of her resignation..her relatability, gravitas & high approval ratings were forgotten; her managerialism, insularity & lack of transparency stressed." I wrote about Sturgeon's memoir & attempt to reclaim the narrative in the @lrb.co.uk
Dani Garavelli · Dance in the Rain: Sturgeon comes out swinging
It’s hard to articulate what Nicola Sturgeon’s feminism meant to someone like me who moved back to Scotland in the...
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September 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"In the de-Sturgeonisation process that took place in the wake of her resignation..her relatability, gravitas & high approval ratings were forgotten; her managerialism, insularity & lack of transparency stressed." I wrote about Sturgeon's memoir & attempt to reclaim the narrative in the @lrb.co.uk
So, if you’re going to Dublin to research your dissertation on Irish politics, of course I’ll come.
August 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So, if you’re going to Dublin to research your dissertation on Irish politics, of course I’ll come.
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Anger as Glasgow School of Art closes its stained glass studio and ends its classes, severing its long links with the endangered craft. My story for the @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2527841...
Anger as Glasgow School of Art closes stained glass studio
Glasgow School of Art has decided to shut a stained glass studio and end the classes, severing the institution’s last link to the craft which…
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June 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Anger as Glasgow School of Art closes its stained glass studio and ends its classes, severing its long links with the endangered craft. My story for the @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2527841...
As Father’s Day presents go… #nowplaying
June 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
As Father’s Day presents go… #nowplaying
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“There’s only so many times you can be lucky, sweetheart.” I spent several days at The Thistle - the UK’s first safer drug consumption facility - talking to staff & users. Here is the piece I wrote for the @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Dani Garavelli · ‘Bang! I was out’: On Drug Consumption Rooms
For some critics, providing a safe space to inject seems too much like enabling or endorsing drug taking. But for those...
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June 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“There’s only so many times you can be lucky, sweetheart.” I spent several days at The Thistle - the UK’s first safer drug consumption facility - talking to staff & users. Here is the piece I wrote for the @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Barga from my window
June 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Barga from my window
Hello! I’m really keen to interview English people - or NI and Welsh folk - who have moved to scotland recently. Anybody out there who fancies explaining why.
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Great achievement. So pleased.
I had to read the email a dozen times before I believed it. To sit alongside journalists whose work I admire so much doesn't feel real.
📢 2025 Orwell Prize Finalists Announced!
The Orwell Prizes celebrate the year's best political writing and reporting, inspired by George Orwell's values of clarity, courage, and fidelity to truth.
Explore this year's shortlists & judges’ reflections: open.substack.com/pub/orwellfo...
The Orwell Prizes celebrate the year's best political writing and reporting, inspired by George Orwell's values of clarity, courage, and fidelity to truth.
Explore this year's shortlists & judges’ reflections: open.substack.com/pub/orwellfo...
May 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Great achievement. So pleased.
More years than it should have been since we were last in Lucca. Beautiful as ever.
April 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
More years than it should have been since we were last in Lucca. Beautiful as ever.
Can’t wait to read this from the hugely talented @danielgraywriter.bsky.social This Sunday I’ll be having a pub lunch in one of my favourite Lanarkshire towns (Strathaven) with some relatives I haven’t seen for a while and Ethel the Pug.
April 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Can’t wait to read this from the hugely talented @danielgraywriter.bsky.social This Sunday I’ll be having a pub lunch in one of my favourite Lanarkshire towns (Strathaven) with some relatives I haven’t seen for a while and Ethel the Pug.
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Could the threat of Reform lead to a previously unthinkable SNP/Scottish Labour coalition? Could the rise of the right be what it takes to put an end to the unionist/nationalist divide? My piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/sco...
Reform is ending Scotland’s indyref era
The country’s politics has been defined by the independence question for more than a decade. Now Nigel Farage’s party is forcing a realignment
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
April 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Could the threat of Reform lead to a previously unthinkable SNP/Scottish Labour coalition? Could the rise of the right be what it takes to put an end to the unionist/nationalist divide? My piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/sco...