Kirsty Milne

Kirsty Mairi Milne (25 January 1964 – 9 July 2013) was a British journalist and academic.

Kirsty Milne was born in Isleworth, Middlesex (now West London) to Alasdair Milne and his wife Sheila Graucob; the couple already had two sons, one of whom is Seumas Milne. The family moved to Lennoxtown, near Glasgow in 1968 when her father became the controller of BBC Scotland, but returned to London when he was promoted in 1973 to become the BBC's Director of Programmes, Television. Milne was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a first class degree.

After a period as a trainee with the BBC, Milne gained her first high-profile job at the New Society magazine in 1987, a few months after her father had been sacked as the BBC's Director General, and continued on the staff of the New Statesman (for a time, the New Statesman and Society) after the two magazines merged. Remaining at the NS for about ten years, she eventually became the magazine's associate editor. During this period, she also freelanced for The Times and The Sunday Telegraph. Colleagues remembered her from this time, and subsequently, for insisting that her first name be pronounced as 'Keersty', rather than 'Kursty'.

Milne had developed a strong affection for Scotland during the five years of her childhood spent there, and the establishment of the Scottish Parliament following the 1997 devolution referendum gave her an opportunity to return in 1999. She was briefly on the staff of the Sunday Herald in Glasgow, before joining The Scotsman in Edinburgh. According to an obituary by Iain Martin, for a time her editor at The Scotsman, Milne did not find the politics of devolution as interesting as she had anticipated, and became interested in the green protest movement, and reported on developments in Westminster.

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