Iain MacWhirter | |
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| Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh | |
| In office 13 February 2009 – 10 January 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Mark Ballard |
| Succeeded by | Peter McColl |
| Majority | 2,640 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 September 1952 |
| Residence | Edinburgh |
| Education | George Heriot's School |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Iain Macwhirter (born 24 September 1952)[1][2] is a Scottish political journalist. He is a political commentator for several newspapers, an author and documentary film and radio presenter and a former Rector of Edinburgh University. He has worked at both the UK Parliament and Scottish Parliament, presenting the BBC2 programmes Westminster Live, Scrutiny and, from 1999, the BBC TV programme Holyrood Live from the Scottish Parliament.
In 2013, he published Road to Referendum, which accompanied a three-part television series of the same name on STV and ITV.[3] Following the Scottish independence referendum, he published Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won A Referendum But Lost Scotland,[4] a retrospective on his experiences as a journalist documenting the campaign. In 2015, his book Tsunami, about the SNP's victory in the 2015 general election, was published by Freight Books.[5]
- ^ "Iain MACWHIRTER - Personal Appointments". Companies House. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
- ^ "MACWHIRTER, Iain". Who's Who. Vol. 2023 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Road to Referendum" Archived 12 February 2015 at archive.today, Cargo Publishing
- ^ "Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won A Referendum But Lost Scotland". Archived 19 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Cargo Publishing
- ^ "Tsunami by Iain Macwhirter - Freight Books". Freightbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 28 January 2016.