Joan McAlpine (@joanmcalpine) 's Twitter Profile
Joan McAlpine

@joanmcalpine

I live by the Solway, work in heritage and write. Been a newspaper editor, columnist and MSP. Always a mother, daughter, sister. Twitter account personal.

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The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht (@ethelwrites) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Available here in hardback, paperback, audio and Kindle. tinyurl.com/5n8uw6vj Thank-you to Sonia Sodha and Hadley Freeman for these reviews - the book's more relevant than ever, as background to the recent Supreme Court judgment.

Available here in hardback, paperback, audio and Kindle. tinyurl.com/5n8uw6vj

Thank-you to <a href="/soniasodha/">Sonia Sodha</a> and <a href="/HadleyFreeman/">Hadley Freeman</a> for these  reviews - the book's more relevant than ever, as background to the recent Supreme Court judgment.
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My team at Robert Burns Ellisland Museum & Farm are looking for a dynamic person to deliver events and increase our audiences - especially among young people. It’s an incredible opportunity supported by The Holywood Trust and The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland More details here ellislandfarm.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

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Big news! Award-winning Collective Architecture appointed to help Save the Home of Auld Lang Syne. The team is led by conservation architects and will focus on the buildings at risk. Thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland & South of Scotland Enterprise Read more here ellislandfarm.co.uk/collective-arc… #RobertBurns

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The men who planted the bomb which murdered this journalist received life sentences yesterday. Good. But the story-which should be better known-mustn’t end there. A journalist exposing corruption in a European country was killed. Who made the order? rsf.org/en/malta-after…

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Step into the world of Robert Burns this summer... Stay at the very place where he wrote Auld Lang Syne. Our self-catering cottage is peaceful, poetic – and still has summer dates available. ellislandfarm.co.uk/visit/stay/ #StayWhereBurnsLived #scotlandstartshere

Step into the world of Robert Burns this summer...
Stay at the very place where he wrote Auld Lang Syne. Our self-catering cottage is peaceful, poetic – and still has summer dates available.
 ellislandfarm.co.uk/visit/stay/
#StayWhereBurnsLived #scotlandstartshere
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Beautiful evening at Robert Burns Ellisland Museum & Farm hosting local environmental group Nithlife for #solstice2025 event. This was the last streak of light, around 11pm on #TheLongestDay, from our holiday let, Auld Acquaintance Cottage. Did I mention you can book it here? airbnb.com/l/5PRFnuy8

Beautiful evening at <a href="/Burns_Ellisland/">Robert Burns Ellisland Museum & Farm</a> hosting local environmental group Nithlife for #solstice2025 event. This was the last streak of light, around 11pm on #TheLongestDay, from our holiday let, Auld Acquaintance Cottage. Did I mention you can book it here? airbnb.com/l/5PRFnuy8
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Column The Sunday Post TV seldom gets it right in coverage of real life crime, especially when it’s familiar to us. The Bombing of Pan Am 103 handled the Lockerbie bombing with sensitivity and brought to life a incredibly meticulous investigation that succeeded in the analogue age

Column <a href="/Sunday_Post/">The Sunday Post</a>  TV seldom gets it right in coverage of real life crime, especially when it’s familiar to us. The Bombing of Pan Am 103 handled the Lockerbie bombing with sensitivity and brought to life a incredibly meticulous investigation that succeeded in the analogue age
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“Too much of modern political thinking is about knee-jerk responses where people take positions they think they ought to hold.” My ⁦Holyrood⁩ column on the denigration of debate. holyrood.com/editors-column…

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'Peter Krykant became the poster boy for a drug policy resistant to scrutiny.” This is an extraordinary piece of journalism from Joan McAlpine one that slices through the spin, the slogans, and the sanctimony with rare clarity and courage. A heartfelt thank you to Joan &

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Grateful to Annemarie Ward 💜 & Darren McGarvey whose brave pieces inspired my Holyrood column on the sad death of Peter Krykant. Media & MSPs should re-examine assumptions on drug policy. Harm reduction has long been the establishment position..now we see a purity spiral

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Gob-smacking story. How could such an elaborate deception on such a scale carry-on for so long without being exposed? In the age of digital everything it’s not supposed to be possible to disappear and erase your own past…