JohnNicolson
@johnnicolson.bsky.social
Journalist. Scottish. European. Harvard & U of Glasgow alumnus. Harkness Fellow. Kennedy scholarship. Ex US Senate speechwriter, BBC & ITV news anchor and Member of Parliament. He/him.
http://www.youtube.com/@JohnNicolsonChannel
http://www.youtube.com/@JohnNicolsonChannel
A sad day. I’m heading to the funeral of my friend & former agent Dave Lewis. A kind and gentle man Dave had a sharp political mind & was a passionate advocate for progressive political causes. He’ll be much missed. Thinking today of his family especially his beloved wife Helen.
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A sad day. I’m heading to the funeral of my friend & former agent Dave Lewis. A kind and gentle man Dave had a sharp political mind & was a passionate advocate for progressive political causes. He’ll be much missed. Thinking today of his family especially his beloved wife Helen.
We now know - from the #CovidInquiry - that 23000 people in England died because Boris Johnson wouldn’t focus & agree to a lockdown in time. Where we needed a serious & focussed Prime Minister we had instead a lazy, lying clown. People lost their lives as a result.
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We now know - from the #CovidInquiry - that 23000 people in England died because Boris Johnson wouldn’t focus & agree to a lockdown in time. Where we needed a serious & focussed Prime Minister we had instead a lazy, lying clown. People lost their lives as a result.
Many things I don’t miss about being an MP. But I do miss my constituents and constituency event visits - especially seeing all the brilliant creativity from the weans in the run up to Christmas.
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Many things I don’t miss about being an MP. But I do miss my constituents and constituency event visits - especially seeing all the brilliant creativity from the weans in the run up to Christmas.
Internal Tory polling reveals the party is headed for just 14 seats if the election was held tomorrow. Pushing Brexit through. Electing Johnson. Then Truss. Inventing an immigration crisis. Tories have created the petri dish for the Faragist virus to grow & kill off their party.
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Internal Tory polling reveals the party is headed for just 14 seats if the election was held tomorrow. Pushing Brexit through. Electing Johnson. Then Truss. Inventing an immigration crisis. Tories have created the petri dish for the Faragist virus to grow & kill off their party.
It’s Scottish Book Trust’s annual ‘Books Week Scotland’. What have you been reading? Here’s my cosy book reading spot at home! The chair (Eames La Chaise) is a lot more comfy than it looks.
On the shelves you’ll see a collection of my Uncle Bobby’s novels (1960s Glasgow author Robert Nicolson.)
On the shelves you’ll see a collection of my Uncle Bobby’s novels (1960s Glasgow author Robert Nicolson.)
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It’s Scottish Book Trust’s annual ‘Books Week Scotland’. What have you been reading? Here’s my cosy book reading spot at home! The chair (Eames La Chaise) is a lot more comfy than it looks.
On the shelves you’ll see a collection of my Uncle Bobby’s novels (1960s Glasgow author Robert Nicolson.)
On the shelves you’ll see a collection of my Uncle Bobby’s novels (1960s Glasgow author Robert Nicolson.)
As temperatures plunge how’s this Starmer Labour pledge working for you?
November 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
As temperatures plunge how’s this Starmer Labour pledge working for you?
Labour drops back yet further as Greens surge in England. Reform still well out in front.
Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @Ipsos_in_the_UK
Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @Ipsos_in_the_UK
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Labour drops back yet further as Greens surge in England. Reform still well out in front.
Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @Ipsos_in_the_UK
Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @Ipsos_in_the_UK
Big birthday celebrations for the Glasgow University Union last night. We presented the wee silver trophy in the foreground to commemorate our 1983 World Student Debating Championship win at @Princeton Frank McKirgan & I persuaded the US audience to ‘regret’ their Declaration of Independence….
November 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Big birthday celebrations for the Glasgow University Union last night. We presented the wee silver trophy in the foreground to commemorate our 1983 World Student Debating Championship win at @Princeton Frank McKirgan & I persuaded the US audience to ‘regret’ their Declaration of Independence….
We keep hearing about Starmer’s multiple broken promises. For me perhaps the most unforgivable was over #Gaza Israeli war crimes & his abandoned leadership campaign human rights pledges.
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
We keep hearing about Starmer’s multiple broken promises. For me perhaps the most unforgivable was over #Gaza Israeli war crimes & his abandoned leadership campaign human rights pledges.
I love a bit of restoration. Here’s our new cludgie. Victorian pan from @GWauction with E bay seat purchase, restored and wood grained. Before and after. Took a lot of work…. Cistern box is new.
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I love a bit of restoration. Here’s our new cludgie. Victorian pan from @GWauction with E bay seat purchase, restored and wood grained. Before and after. Took a lot of work…. Cistern box is new.
Pleasure to join Stephen on @TimesRadio earlier to talk about BBC, objectivity, and Trump.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Pleasure to join Stephen on @TimesRadio earlier to talk about BBC, objectivity, and Trump.
So is ex Tory spin doctor and Boris Johnson appointee Sir Robbie Gibb now an impartial BBC board member? If so, why did he like an anti SNP tweet? Well the (Tory) ex BBC Chair told me Gibb’s finger accidentally passed over the “telephone” & “the heart got pressed.”
Comedy gold.
Comedy gold.
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
So is ex Tory spin doctor and Boris Johnson appointee Sir Robbie Gibb now an impartial BBC board member? If so, why did he like an anti SNP tweet? Well the (Tory) ex BBC Chair told me Gibb’s finger accidentally passed over the “telephone” & “the heart got pressed.”
Comedy gold.
Comedy gold.
I wonder if outgoing BBC Director General Tim Davie still thinks Sir Robbie Gibb “understands and supports” him? I suspect not.
I questioned Tim Davie about former Tory spin doctor Gibb - a Boris Johnson appointee. What was his role on the BBC Board?
I questioned Tim Davie about former Tory spin doctor Gibb - a Boris Johnson appointee. What was his role on the BBC Board?
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I wonder if outgoing BBC Director General Tim Davie still thinks Sir Robbie Gibb “understands and supports” him? I suspect not.
I questioned Tim Davie about former Tory spin doctor Gibb - a Boris Johnson appointee. What was his role on the BBC Board?
I questioned Tim Davie about former Tory spin doctor Gibb - a Boris Johnson appointee. What was his role on the BBC Board?
I’ll be popping up on @lbc shortly to talk about the BBC crisis & Donald Trump. Tune in if you can.
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I’ll be popping up on @lbc shortly to talk about the BBC crisis & Donald Trump. Tune in if you can.
Johnson & Trump in all our attack against the BBC for spreading ‘left wing fake news’. You gotta laugh. Are there two Western politicians less familiar with the truth than these two?
Here’s #Trump today posting a lie that Obama gets “royalties” from
Obamacare health provision.
Here’s #Trump today posting a lie that Obama gets “royalties” from
Obamacare health provision.
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Johnson & Trump in all our attack against the BBC for spreading ‘left wing fake news’. You gotta laugh. Are there two Western politicians less familiar with the truth than these two?
Here’s #Trump today posting a lie that Obama gets “royalties” from
Obamacare health provision.
Here’s #Trump today posting a lie that Obama gets “royalties” from
Obamacare health provision.
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A tale of two countries. Reform surge continues in England. @theSNP hold clear lead in Scotland. Starmer leading Labour to historic defeat - fourth place in votes, fifth in seats.
Polling: @FindoutnowUK Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @FindoutnowUK Graphics: @LeftieStats
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
A tale of two countries. Reform surge continues in England. @theSNP hold clear lead in Scotland. Starmer leading Labour to historic defeat - fourth place in votes, fifth in seats.
Polling: @FindoutnowUK Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @FindoutnowUK Graphics: @LeftieStats
Risible. Looking forward to the embarrassed NY Post follow up story…..
November 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Risible. Looking forward to the embarrassed NY Post follow up story…..
Facebook reminds me: here’s one of our lockdown staff meetings five years ago today. I was so proud of my amazing - and diverse - team. Majority women. Woman office manager. #LGBTQ + disabled + under 25 staff.
November 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Facebook reminds me: here’s one of our lockdown staff meetings five years ago today. I was so proud of my amazing - and diverse - team. Majority women. Woman office manager. #LGBTQ + disabled + under 25 staff.
I remember in 2015 Labour & LibDem activists posting nonsense about my new office set up. Lavish furniture claimed on expenses… (I’d bought second hand stuff at auction.) Employing my wife was another ludicrous bit of disinformation.
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I remember in 2015 Labour & LibDem activists posting nonsense about my new office set up. Lavish furniture claimed on expenses… (I’d bought second hand stuff at auction.) Employing my wife was another ludicrous bit of disinformation.
More Labour Government sycophancy towards the Royal Family reports The @the-independent.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
More Labour Government sycophancy towards the Royal Family reports The @the-independent.com
New poll points to a Labour collapse in Scotland. The Greens fighting it out with Reform for second place. @theSNP poised to win outright majority. But #Yes supporters need to vote!
Polling: @FindoutnowUK
Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @FindoutnowUK
Graphics: @LeftieStats
October 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
New poll points to a Labour collapse in Scotland. The Greens fighting it out with Reform for second place. @theSNP poised to win outright majority. But #Yes supporters need to vote!
Polling: @FindoutnowUK
Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @FindoutnowUK
Graphics: @LeftieStats
Huge @theSNP lead in latest poll. Labour has collapsed. Tories a distant fourth. Alba still on a derisory 1%
There’s a clear message from this: to stop #Farage, win independence & get back into the EU Scotland must vote SNP & deliver a majority for a referendum.
There’s a clear message from this: to stop #Farage, win independence & get back into the EU Scotland must vote SNP & deliver a majority for a referendum.
October 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Huge @theSNP lead in latest poll. Labour has collapsed. Tories a distant fourth. Alba still on a derisory 1%
There’s a clear message from this: to stop #Farage, win independence & get back into the EU Scotland must vote SNP & deliver a majority for a referendum.
There’s a clear message from this: to stop #Farage, win independence & get back into the EU Scotland must vote SNP & deliver a majority for a referendum.
My beau and I had the privilege of visiting this extraordinary place recently..... Once upon a time the Archbishop of Canterbury's palace en route to Lambeth, stolen by England's King Henry VIII & now gently languishing waiting for rescue.
spitalfieldslife.com
spitalfieldslife.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
My beau and I had the privilege of visiting this extraordinary place recently..... Once upon a time the Archbishop of Canterbury's palace en route to Lambeth, stolen by England's King Henry VIII & now gently languishing waiting for rescue.
spitalfieldslife.com
spitalfieldslife.com
I’ve spent many happy hours rocking on this. But I’ve run out of room. Auctioning my original
1990 @TomDixonStudio ‘Bird Chaise’ next week @LyonandTurnbull
1990 @TomDixonStudio ‘Bird Chaise’ next week @LyonandTurnbull
October 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I’ve spent many happy hours rocking on this. But I’ve run out of room. Auctioning my original
1990 @TomDixonStudio ‘Bird Chaise’ next week @LyonandTurnbull
1990 @TomDixonStudio ‘Bird Chaise’ next week @LyonandTurnbull