Alex Massie (journalist)

Alex Massie (born 1 July 1974) is a Scottish freelance journalist commentator based in Edinburgh.

Early life

The son of the journalist Allan Massie, the younger Massie was educated at Glenalmond College in Perthshire and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited T.C.D. Miscellany. He was also an active member of the University Philosophical Society, the college's main debating society.

In 1997, he won the John Smith Memorial Mace debating competition, speaking with Matthew Magee and representing the University Philosophical Society. Formerly The Observer Mace, the competition was renamed in 1995 and is run by the English-Speaking Union.

Massie is Scotland Editor of The Spectator and a columnist for the Scottish Edition of The Times. He is a regular contributor to the The Scottish Daily Mail, Foreign Policy, The Scotsman and other publications.

He was previously Washington correspondent for The Scotsman and Assistant Editor of Scotland on Sunday. A regular contributor to those papers, he has also written for The Daily Telegraph, The New Republic, The Daily Beast,^[1] the Los Angeles Times, Politico, National Review Online, The Sunday Telegraph, The New York Times,^[2] The American Conservative, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Observer, the New Statesman, The Big Issue, Slate, the Irish Independent, Newsweek and The Sunday Business Post.^[3] Since January 2009^[4] he has written a blog^[5] that is published by The Spectator.^[6] In 2012 he was short-listed in the blog section for the Orwell Prize for political writing.^[7]

Massie plays for Selkirk Cricket Club and supports Scottish football side Heart of Midlothian.^[8]

^ "Alex Massie". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
^ Massie, Alex (11 May 2010). "Britain's Coalition of Pain". The New York Times.
^ "Debatable Land – This land…It's debatable".
^ Administrator (27 January 2009). "Massie Blog Moving to Spectator". Allmediascotland.com. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
^ "Alex Massie joins Spectator.co.uk". The Spectator. 20 January 2009. Retrieved 2 December 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Nine points behind — has Alex Salmond lost before he's begun?". 26 November 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
^ "Orwell Prize 2012 Shortlists Announced". The Orwell Prize. 24 April 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
^ Alex Massie (31 August 2009). "Megrahi Release Explained: He's a Rangers Fan". The Spectator. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)