Susan Dalgety
Susan Dalgety spent six months in Malawi from May 2019, interviewing scores of people and researching the country's history and its future prospects. During her stay, she filed a weekly 'Letter from Malawi' for The Scotsman. As the former head of communications for Lord McConnell, when he was First Minister of Scotland (2001-06), her first trip to Malawi was to set up the first official visit by the Scottish government, and help develop a bi-lateral co-operation agreement between the two countries, which remains in place today. She was previously chief writer on the Edinburgh Evening News, deputy leader of Edinburgh City Council and Director of Communication for Scottish Labour, as well as editor of the Wester Hailes Sentinel - Scotland's ground-breaking community newspaper during the 1980s and '90s. Her first book ‘The Spirit of Malawi’ published by LuathPress is now available. She tweets at @DalgetySusan
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Keir Starmer cannot ignore us
The gender debate is not going to disappear
The nightmare apparent
Has Sturgeon doomed the SNP to mediocre leadership?
Sturgeon on the hook
Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill promises a difficult year ahead for the woman who self-identifies as “feminist to my fingertips”
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation