Free press?
Holyrood restricts media access to politicians after FMQs
Nothing to see here
What an awful bunch of people:
“It’s very worrying to see mainstream UK politicians rubbing shoulders with U.S. anti-abortion activists, European far right figures, and members of the Trump administration who want to bring culture wars to the UK.”
Just catching up with this Holyrood journalist FMQs pen story - what an embarrassment. We have a barely functioning FOI system, constant criticisms about transparency and now another move which seems designed to prevent politicians being held to account. Get a grip.
Jon Will Chambers
Olga Nesterova
The decision to corral the media in Scot Parliament appears from reports to have been made by the Parliament Bureau but it has no jurisdiction in the matter. But if this is true then how can Scottish Greens claim not to have been involved when @lornaslater.bsky.social is a member of the Bureau?
Article on the dispute at City of Glasgow College in the Daily Record today.
Lecturers and students deserve to feel safe at work!
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/teaching-union-blasts-scots-college-37315802
The Holyrood 'press pen' isn't likely to hold. It has infuriated ScotPol journalists today. The lack of Parliament bosses being willing to confidently come out and defend the press pen decision doesn't augur well for it staying or lobby journos staying in it.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2620781...
