The Caledonian Mercury and the new Labour Leader

We are used to being at the centre of things here in Edinburgh. So this should be no surprise.

Only three publications supported the Labour leadership campaign of Ed Milliband – as the man himself said within the first hours of his successful election, at a celebration party hosted by the New Statesman magazine.

As Milliband told his audience, the trio were “the People, the New Statesman and the Caledonian Mercury“, the Caley Merc being the Scottish news website, set up at the start of the year by, among others, the former online content editor at The Scotsman, Stewart Kirkpatrick.