Calum Macdonald
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@timesradio Breakfast 6-10am, Fri-Sun | @whitehallsource / @holyroodsources podcasts | Member # 1, Times Radio Early Breakfast Club / [email protected]
Joined July 2011
Welcome along @seneddsources Subscribe on your podcast app and YouTube. Follow on X. Welcome inside politics and policy making in Wales ahead of one of the most consequential elections of devolution.
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Bulk-buying anti-dizziness medication given how much circling back I'll be doing in 2026
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Resident Doctor on @TimesRadio Breakfast who’s not going on strike this week: “Yeah, ‘man goes to work’ doesn’t usually get you on the radio but that’s where I am this week.” Describes Government offer as “reasonably pragmatic.”
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I just want to say that I am full of admiration for Danny, who is a hugely kind and clever man. Some of the responses to this video are no more than disgraceful, knee-jerk racism from the angry and intellectually-challenged. It shouldn’t be shocking that it exists, but it is.
“When my grandfather was having an argument with a Zionist in the 1930s, Israel hadn’t been created yet. They still managed to have a Holocaust at that point.” @Dannythefink says he no longer feels safe in London after the Bondi Beach attack. @KateEMcCann | @StigAbell
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One of my favourite Christmas days is when @LordMcConnell and Nicky Morgan - on air every Friday @TimesRadio - pop by and we exchange Christmas presents (and chat about the news). They give us ours in House of Lords bags. They get theirs in an old ice cream tub. @Chloetilley
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Thanks Darrel. Give the gift of a link to a Holyrood Sources episode to your friends, family and followers this Christmas! We’re on your podcast app or on YouTube. @CalumAM | @akmaciver | @geoffaberdein
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If MPs were being approached it is not credible that the MP at the top of the ballot was “missed off”. @CalumAM asking the questions that need to be asked…
At the end of this clip @kimleadbeater describes @jessicaelgot’s reporting re a “private approach” as “total nonsense”. Pretty straightforward. Either the Guardian printed an untruth or Leadbeater just uttered one.
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I sat through 13 evidence panels on the Assisted Dying select committee and I didn’t hear a single professional Body support the Bill in its current form. The Lords must be allowed to get on with our work. I signed this letter along with 6 other members of the select committee👇🏼
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"You're creating a hierarchy. You're saying because you're working with Government departments that your amendments are more important than the peers who are expressing their expertise." Kim Leadbeater: "Well of course they are." https://t.co/QOSOOFGM6t
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One of my favourite Christmas days is when @LordMcConnell and Nicky Morgan - on air every Friday @TimesRadio - pop by and we exchange Christmas presents (and chat about the news). They give us ours in House of Lords bags. They get theirs in an old ice cream tub. @Chloetilley
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"We are the long-term bridesmaid of Welsh politics, and our aim will be to be the bride next year." @TomGiffard says the Conservatives have to illustrate that they can "be that change" for people in Wales. @ProducerOllie | @MsJoKiernan |
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I regret to inform you I have become someone who has spent an afternoon creating "a deck" 🤮
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NEW: Labour voters from last year are more likely to trust the SNP to stand up for Scotland's interests than they are to trust Labour to do so. "Among those who voted for Labour in July 2024, 30% trust the SNP the most and just 23% trust Labour the most." Mark McGeoghegan from
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🚨🚨Labour 2024 Voters trust THE SNP more to stand up for Scotland New on @HolyroodSources
https://t.co/PI7QpEUXyG
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Do we have a word to describe the unique exhaustion of the couple of weeks before Christmas ?
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"On the precise issue of a majority in Holyrood, that certainly would improve their position." Reform UK's Malcolm Offord joins us after his defection, and considers his previous comment that a second independence referendum would have to be "earned," in light of John Swinney's
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This from @HolyroodSources is very good. It is the same issue since time immemorial, regardless of your constitutional view, that bubbles up in the end. Doesn’t matter your industry, it is a fact compounded by devolution. You could fill a book with names of people who think
🆕"People down there couldn't care less about what happens in Scotland. Will you be any different?" @geoffaberdein challenges Reform UK's @Malcolm_Offord to stand up for Scotland: "I can have a row, can't I? At least I know what I'm having a row about!" "If there's a big
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