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Marie Macklin

Herald Scotland

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Reform candidate Malcolm Offord is a glimmer of light in our stale politics

Scotland faces a turning point as 2025 closes, with the loss of key industrial sites echoing the devastation of the 1980s – and raising urgent...

01.01.2026 4

Herald Scotland

Marie Macklin

There are new opportunities for Scottish shipbuilding and we must take them

Scotland's tradition of shipbuilding has iconic status and can still deliver a new age of success, argues Dr Marie Macklin Scotland’s industrial...

26.09.2025 4

Herald Scotland

Marie Macklin

We should learn a lesson from America’s can-do attitude Now, with Scotland and the rest of the UK well placed to drive forward the industries of the future, a new era of opportunity is before us. That is why I’m delighted that we are on the verge of securing no fewer than 1,200 jobs for Ayrshire, in a development that promises to lock in growth, opportunity and community wealth for the long term.

A new age of industrialisation is dawning in Scotland. For too long, the communities once supported by the industries of generations gone by have...

01.08.2025 9

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Marie Macklin

Is this a better way of doing politics? I think so

It was Barack Obama who summed up the extent of tribal division in US politics when, in 2015, he observed that not even becoming a literal lifesaver...

18.06.2025 5

Herald Scotland

Marie Macklin