![]() He was the BBC presenter on 11 September 2001 when the Twin Towers in New York were attacked, anchoring and providing live commentary on BBC News 24 and BBC One – a broadcast which won the BBC a Foreign Press Association award for best live breaking news coverage. He was a correspondent on numerous live General Election, European Election, and Budget programmes. He also presented Watchdog Healthcheck on BBC1, appeared as a panellist on Radio 4's comedy show The News Quiz, and was a guest reporter on both the BBC's arts magazine The Late Show and its travel show Holiday. He went on to work as a reporter for a range of high-profile BBC news and current affairs shows including Panorama, Assignment, and Newsnight. The documentary examined the discriminatory laws targeting gay men in the UK, and asked why the Conservative Party continued to support them. He made the documentary 'A Question of Consent' for the BBC's Public Eye. ![]() ![]() Īfter three series he moved to London as one of the launch reporters for the BBC's flagship Sunday politics programme On the Record. to work full-time for the BBC when offered a job presenting the network 'DEF 2' youth strand discussion programme Open to Question. He went on to replace Magnus Magnusson as presenter of the show. While a student, John Nicolson appeared on BBC Scotland's Mr Speaker Sir – a series pitting undergraduate debaters against prominent politicians and public figures. Īfter Harvard, he worked as a speechwriter on Capitol Hill for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan ( Democrat, New York) specialising in Israel-Palestinian issues, the Irish peace process, and gun control. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming Scottish independence. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard.Īs a student, he won the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship for postgraduate study in the United States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He graduated from the University of Glasgow with a MA (Hons.) in English literature and Politics. Nicolson is the first generation of his family to go to university. He won a bursary to Hutchesons' Grammar School. His father died of lung cancer when he was at school. His mother came from Scotstoun in Glasgow. ![]() His ancestry is Hebridean and Orcadian on his father's side. John Nicolson was born in Glasgow, the son of John Donald Nicolson and Marion Nicolson. He is the SNP Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, a member of the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee and Depute Chair of the APPG on Global LGBT+ Rights. He was previously the MP for East Dunbartonshire, having been elected at the 2015 general election, and defeated at the 2017 general election. Since the 2019 general election he has been the SNP Member of Parliament (MP) for Ochil and South Perthshire. John MacKenzie Nicolson (born 23 June 1961) is a Scottish journalist, broadcaster and Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. ![]()
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