Calum Macdonald

@timesradio Breakfast 6-10am, Fri-Sun | Member # 1, Times Radio Early Breakfast Club / @holyroodsources & @whitehallsource podcasts / [email protected]

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

Welcome along @seneddsources

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Welcome inside politics and policy making in Wales ahead of one of the most consequential elections of devolution.

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

Andy Burnham being presented with a £4.6bn hole in his first budget

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

Except that levelling up was a strategy with no metrics - which is why it dribbled away into flower baskets for high streets.

[Whitehall Sources @whitehallsource]

"Don’t expect detailed policy clues yet. Watch for when he’s actually in."

A massive reality check is coming for Team Burnham this August. The moment they open the Treasury books, the campaign noises stop and the brutal truth of the autumn budget begins.

Can Burnham’s "No. 10 North" vision survive contact with the Treasury?

@nationjames | @calumam | @straighttie | @JenWilliams_FT

[Whitehall Sources @whitehallsource]

"You're essentially almost reinventing the 2019 Boris Johnson levelling up narrative."

@JenWilliams_FT - who's reported on Andy Burnham for a decade - assesses the invocation of FDR's New Deal - can Andy Burnham do something similar to him... or even, Boris Johnson?

@CalumAM | @straighttie | @nationjames

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

Happy birthday to the one and only, @TimesRadio.

Making news on the radio friendly, interesting, thought-provoking and insightful all in one ideal station. Nothing beats live radio. And no-one does it better than Times Radio.

Six years ago we launched with lockdown hair and jawlines…

Thank you for listening, congratulations to all the people who battled a pandemic to make it real, and here’s to many more years understanding news and politics together.

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

Happy birthday to the one and only, @TimesRadio.

Making news on the radio friendly, interesting, thought-provoking and insightful all in one ideal station. Nothing beats live radio. And no-one does it better than Times Radio.

Six years ago we launched with lockdown hair and jawlines…

Thank you for listening, congratulations to all the people who battled a pandemic to make it real, and here’s to many more years understanding news and politics together.

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Not one for rants by nature but this Britain is ungovernable narrative drives me mad, it’s a cop out & if people buy it, it will make it harder to actually solve the big problems people are unhappy about. Why I think the recent changes of PM can’t be blamed on ungovernability ⬇️

[henrimurison.bsky.social @henrimurison]

Read @oliver_wright @Steven_Swinford @benclatworthy on @andyburnham plans to address the costs to tax payers inc down south of underperformance of North economically

https://t.co/UedPY7jrOu

I’ll be @TimesRadio breakfast responding for @NP_Partnership @writtenbysalma @CalumAM

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

@SokillJo 😂😂

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

We have to talk about cooking during a heatwave

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

Magnificent insider take from @JenWilliams_FT this week on the @whitehallsource podcast - she’s been reporting on Andy Burnham for years - and assesses his strengths and potential weaknesses.

Streaming now🎧🎧

[Whitehall Sources @whitehallsource]

🆕 EPISODE of Whitehall Sources STREAMING NOW on podcast apps and YouTube.

"The Next Boris Johnson... Andy Burnham"

Watch here: https://t.co/tLsTYqYLEp

Listen on Podcast Apps: https://t.co/Hu9vb4onwC

@CalumAM | @straighttie | @nationjames

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

@DebbieMackay @HolyroodSources Thanks Debbie

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

We, naturally, are very pleased to be highly commended at the #ScottishPodcastAwards for the agenda-setting, impactful, start-up @holyroodsources.

Congratulations to the - well known - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish podcast, The Rest Is Politics, for winning in our category: news, politics and current affairs.

[Holyrood Sources @HolyroodSources]

From daily Covid briefings to a crime scene sticker on her bookshelf.

Few images capture the downfall of the SNP’s most powerful political era quite like this one.

#Scotland #NicolaSturgeon #Politics #SNP

@CalumAM | @akmaciver | @geoffaberdein | @CatrionaStewart

[Andy Maciver @akmaciver]

Tough to break into the Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 political podcast scene with a big local incumbent…. We tried 🙏🏻

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

@ginadavidsonlbc @akmaciver Excellent question

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

We, naturally, are very pleased to be highly commended at the #ScottishPodcastAwards for the agenda-setting, impactful, start-up @holyroodsources.

Congratulations to the - well known - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish podcast, The Rest Is Politics, for winning in our category: news, politics and current affairs.

[The Opinion Brief @opinionbriefpod]

“It is easy for those who quite liked Keir Starmer to write his failures off to an ungovernable public. I think that is a cop out.”

“Politicians have failed to demonstrate that they can bring about the change that the country needs.”

@LukeTryl explains how recent Prime Ministers have been the architects of their own destruction, and that the British public should not be blamed for the turnover in No. 10.

Find the episode here 🔗 https://t.co/5Xp4dqllj9

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

@SokillJo @HolyroodSources Thanks Jo!

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

https://t.co/cqRbGJ9QpS

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

We, naturally, are very pleased to be highly commended at the #ScottishPodcastAwards for the agenda-setting, impactful, start-up @holyroodsources.

Congratulations to the - well known - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish podcast, The Rest Is Politics, for winning in our category: news, politics and current affairs.

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

THIS IS TONIGHT!!

(We won’t win)

[Holyrood Sources @HolyroodSources]

BREAKING: Holyrood Sources has been shortlisted by the Scottish Podcast Awards.

We are honoured to be nominated among other fantastic podcasts in the News, Politics and Current Affairs category at the Scottish Podcast Awards.

@CalumAM | @geoffaberdein | @akmaciver

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

@adamsolomons5 @HolyroodSources They tried to end us. They failed.