Andy Maciver
@akmaciver
Founder/Director @messagetweet 📢 + Wednesdays on @HolyroodSources 🎧 🖥️ + Fridays in @HeraldScotland & occasionally in @spectator 📰 💻
👋 I'm also now posting on @akmaciver.bsky.social. Still here too, for the moment.
Can Jeremy Corbyn win in Scotland? @CalumAM | @akmaciver | @geoffaberdein 📺 youtu.be/5XyiyLlHVJg
"Honestly Andy, I thought you knew politics better" @geoffaberdein doesn't mince his words on the chances of hosting @TheOpen at @TrumpTurnberry in 2028... But are you team Andy or team Geoff on this one? @CalumAM| @akmaciver| @geoffaberdein
A brilliant idea from @akmaciver: Trump Turnberry must host the Open – and Swinney must drive it heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…
Of course we should welcome Trump to Scotland..... and we should give Turnberry the Open too. My thoughts in today's @heraldscotland 🇺🇸🏴 heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…
🔴Another week, another hat trick of the best political insight you’ll find anywhere on any podcast with political insiders who know what they’re talking about. Whitehall Sources assess Kemi Badenoch’s reshuffle… Holyrood Sources anticipates the arrival of President Trump to…
This week’s @HolyroodSources , streaming now and on video on YouTube: 💨 zonal pricing rural cost/benefit from wind farms 🛣️ infrastructure spending 🇺🇸 Trump in Scotland 🗳️ & the disconnect between parties and people @geoffaberdein | @CalumAM podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/hol…
"Yes, you sometimes have to bend the knee to this guy but if Scotland and the UK gets a better deal out of doing precisely that, then it is worth it" @akmaciver believes @Keir_Starmer and @JohnSwinney must make an effort with @realDonaldTrump Do you agree? Let us know in the…
The time is right to make independence the settled will, but nationalists will have to perform much better to make it so. My thoughts on today’s @heraldscotland heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…
🆕 @Ross_Greer on taxing wealth and free bus travel if he becomes Scottish Greens co-leader. Would he work with the SNP? And, his view on the First Minister meeting President Trump this month... 🎧📺Streaming now on podcast and YouTube. @CalumAM | @akmaciver | @geoffaberdein
'There is nothing to fear from new political parties. Quite the opposite' 👇
"By 2029, they'll be talking to seven people on Twitter in a North Islington wine bar." @akmaciver says Jeremy Corbyn's new party will not become a thing in Scotland. But he predicts: "There may be other Scottish-only parties that can be created out of 2026 that could…
🎧Listen to the full podcast on your podcast app: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cri…
I joined the superb team @HolyroodSources earlier to discuss the state of police Scotland on the back of my piece in today’s @heraldscotland heraldscotland.com/comments/25297…
"The police service is neglecting its own." @CalumA_Steele says all is not well with Police Scotland - and its recruitment problems are the latest cause of concern. @CalumAM | @akmaciver | @geoffaberdein
'Those policies are now effectively in the bin' Andy Maciver says the Labour rebels are in charge now, and the same people who said no to welfare reform will also say no to healthcare reform 👇 @akmaciver
Tomorrow’s column today… Labour's reform agenda is over. The rebels are in control | @heraldscotland heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…
'Far from causing moral panic, using private health care in other countries is seen as an act of moral propriety. A display not of privilege but of empathy and decency' 👇 heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp… @akmaciver
“Far from causing moral panic, using private health care in other countries is seen as an act of moral propriety.” My thoughts on healthcare in today’s @heraldscotland heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…
'We should have a proper national conversation about the NHS, rather than the NHS being something more like a national cult' Read Andy Maciver's latest column 👇 heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp… @akmaciver