
Rebecca McQuillan
@becmcq
Journalist, mainly doing politics (The Herald, Holyrood, BBC Scotland). Herald columns: heraldscotland.com/author/profile…
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11-06-2014 23:49:10
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'Being disrespectful has just become more normalised. We’ve become more annoyed generally, fuelled partly by social media algorithms that push people towards ever more emotive tweets, articles and videos' heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp… Rebecca McQuillan


We need a rethink: exams don't catch brilliance of a dyslexic mind, writes Rebecca McQuillan heraldscotland.com/opinion/244884…

"Salmond has been strongly hinting - to anyone who’ll listen - that Scotland would have had a second referendum by now if he’d been in charge" Rebecca McQuillan argues the Yes movement will learn no lessons in failure from him. One of our best read pieces today. heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…

The rather wonderful Neil Mackinnon was great company, astute and impossible to stay cross with. Rebecca McQuillan has written his obituary in today’s Herald. heraldscotland.com/business_hq/24…

Went full America for The Herald front tomorrow. We've Garrett Stell Hannah Brown Rebecca McQuillan and Scott Wright having their say on Donald J. Trump returning to the White House


'Not every teacher was prepared to hit children, but many were' Former First Minister was belted at school aged six for not eating his carrots heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp… Rebecca McQuillan


Herald columnist Rebecca McQuillan suggests some radical reforms that can be made to the ASN system heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp… Rebecca McQuillan (2/6)


"Next to the other party leaders, he is the odd one out." Beset by challenges from every side, Scots Tory boss Findlay faces a torrid year heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp… Rebecca McQuillan


Just read the great article by Rebecca McQuillan in the Herald re getting children outside and away from phones. It features the inspiring work of Emily Cutts and G20 Worth reading. @upstartscotland heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…


“John Swinney’s reassuring, respectful manner masks deadly political instincts.” Rebecca McQuillan on calm, canny and party political John Swinney and the problems for Anas Sarwar Swinney springs a trap for Sarwar - who walks right into it heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…


“Yet the false notion that men are getting a raw deal as a direct consequence of women being treated more equally has a worrying degree of traction” Really important & powerful article from Rebecca McQuillan in today’s The Herald ⬇️

"Reform is in a weaker position position than it may seem." Farage’s fatal flaw: Now we’re seeing the limits of Reform’s reach heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp… Rebecca McQuillan


"Trump may backtrack on tariffs but America’s unreliability as an economic and diplomatic partner will have lasting effects for American companies." Make America great again? Actually, Trump is making it weaker heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp… Rebecca McQuillan


A world of yachts and slums is always a powder keg waiting to go off Politicians can’t keep dodging wealth taxes, writes Rebecca McQuillan heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…



A good question and insightful comment from Rebecca McQuillan in today's The Herald 👇


'Mirthless jokes about vulnerable othered minorities trying to escape man-eating animals. This is what happens when empathy dies' Rebecca McQuillan
