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Holyrood Sources

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Holyrood Sources

@HolyroodSources

Listen on your podcast app // @calumam, @akmaciver & @geoffaberdein take you inside Scottish politics // find us on YouTube // Email: [email protected]

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Holyrood Sources
@HolyroodSources
Jun 3
🆕 From the Scotland 2050 conference in Edinburgh @CalumAM and @akmaciver chat to @Ivan_McKee , @agcolehamilton and @LordMcConnell about trust in politics, and whether Scotland is in need of radical public service reform. 🎧📺 Listen now on your podcast app or watch on YouTube.
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Holyrood Sources
@HolyroodSources
Feb 18, 2025
🆕EXCLUSIVE: Anas Sarwar and Jackie Baillie say they support nurse Sandie Peggie. The Scottish Labour leader tells us: "Knowing what we know now, we would not have supported the [Gender Recognition Reform] bill." @CalumAM | @akmaciver | @geoffaberdein
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Holyrood Sources
@HolyroodSources
Aug 20, 2025
“I was brought up that you didn't speak ill of the dead. But if you're going to speak ill of the dead, at least make your claims accurate.” @geoffaberdein describes claims about Alex Salmond in Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir as: “Falsehoods at worst, fabrications at best.” @CalumAM
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Holyrood Sources
@HolyroodSources
Oct 11, 2023
"I just feel quite a lot of shame." @akmaciver's emotional reaction to Scotland's politicians' response to the conflict in Israel/ Gaza. "In London, in Paris, in Berlin, in New York they're flying Israeli flags. But we've decided that we're going to sit this one out."
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@HolyroodSources
Oct 29, 2025
🚨Susan Smith, of @ForWomenScot, ordered to attend a police station to face vandalism charges over a broken brolly after a complaint by a trans activist. WATCH: Immediate reaction from @geoffaberdein and @akmaciver. @CalumAM
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Holyrood Sources
@HolyroodSources
Apr 25, 2024
Geoff Aberdein was Alex Salmond's Chief of Staff, working in a minority Government from 2007. As Humza Yousaf terminates the Bute House Agreement, @geoffaberdein advises: "Get rid of the pish legislation that you've got upcoming that means very little to the vast majority of
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Holyrood Sources
@HolyroodSources
Jul 26, 2023
"There's many of people in the Cabinet and the leadership that haven't uttered a word to me or vice versa, for well over a year. And it's very sad." SNP MSP Fergus Ewing says he won't be deterred by the "toxic atmosphere amongst the SNP group in Holyrood."
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Holyrood Sources
@HolyroodSources
Apr 23, 2025
"It's moral cowardice. She's just in hiding." Susan Smith from @ForWomenScot criticises Nicola Sturgeon's silence on the Supreme Court ruling that "woman" refers to a biological woman. @CalumAM | @akmaciver | @geoffaberdein
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Holyrood Sources
@HolyroodSources
Oct 18, 2024
"Perhaps, just perhaps, this might spark a unifying of the [independence] movement." @geoffaberdein reflects on his time working with Alex Salmond, and on what his death could mean for Scotland.
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Holyrood Sources
@HolyroodSources
Aug 1, 2025
"Scottish independence is inevitable." @jameshawes2 tells us the UK is "finished" in the next 10, 20 or 30 years. @CalumAM | @akmaciver | @geoffaberdein
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Mar 27, 2024
"This is about the police keeping a record of things it itself says are not crimes... That is the policing of thoughts. Whatever the issue is, that is deeply illiberal, deeply dangerous." @akmaciver breaks down @murdo_fraser's challenge to police on "non-crime hate incidents".
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Holyrood Sources
@HolyroodSources
Jan 15, 2025
🚨🆕HOLYROOD 2026 VOTING INTENTION Seat extrapolation from Professor Sir John Curtice (assuming uniform movement): 🟡SNP 53 🔵Con 15 🟣Ref. 15 🔴Lab 24 🟠LD. 12 🟢Grn. 10 @CalumAM | @geoffaberdein | @akmaciver
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Holyrood Sources
@HolyroodSources
Apr 12, 2023
Geoff Aberdein was Alex Salmond's Chief of Staff. On the SNP's apparent lack of transparency: "I'm pretty flabbergasted and bemused and disappointed, in all honesty. I worked alongside a lot of these people." Listen in full to the latest episode of the Holyrood Sources podcast
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Holyrood Sources
@HolyroodSources
Oct 25, 2024
"I was pretty uncomfortable with the whole thing... not acceptable and it can't ever happen again." @akmaciver criticises Scotland's handling of the aftermath of the death of Alex Salmond.
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