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Since I hit 50, my life has become a bad British sitcom, featuring me as the halfwit man-child character causing chaos while his family watches in...
It’s an ill wind and all that, so somebody must benefit from the grim state of international affairs. Step forward the army of “experts” whose...
The annual return of Record Store Day is upon us next month. It is a day designed to celebrate the record shop, the records, and everything...
The scramble among European leaders to respond to US President Donald Trump’s dramatic shift in policy towards Ukraine and Russia has been matched...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. As I write this, we are somehow into day two of talking about the Tories’...
I have a pitch for a new Hollywood blockbuster. It’s called Cowboys on the Moon and follows the escapades of parking wardens in Glasgow’s south...
The Scottish Government had another thoughtful Christmas present for landlords in the Private Rental Sector (PRS) late last year– a further hike in...
No one should be surprised about the sharp focus on the Labour Government’s attitude towards the North Sea, and the welter of headlines around...
Last Friday was genuinely jaw-dropping. Naked self-interest and dripping contempt were on full show and nothing short of ritual humiliation was...
Certain strands of the human papillomavirus (HPV) cause genital warts and many forms of lethal cancer, including cervical cancer. Research shows...
It’s a general rule of politics, as it is in life, that when you’re backed into a corner and have nothing else to say, you should mention the...
How can you live without hope? In Afghanistan, for women and girls, the question is not theoretical. As International Women’s Day approaches, the...
The crusade in the US against diversity, equality and inclusion - known as DEI in corporate circles - has been gathering pace since a Supreme Court...
As First Minister of Scotland, John Swinney has a lot on his plate. How he manages to get through it all is a mystery. There he was on Monday, his...
This article appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter A few years ago, it seemed uncertain which way we were going in the effort to get...
Treating people with dignity, fairness and respect is at the heart of everything we do at Social Security Scotland and has been our commitment...
Hieronymous Bosch was damn good at paintings of humans in hell, yet even he’d have struggled to capture the look of eternal damnation on Marco...
Can your diet cure cancer? The simple, and unequivocal answer to this question is it that it can’t cure cancer and to make such a claim to sell a...
Review: Harvest, Glasgow Film Festival, Barry Didcock, Three stars A leading light in the so-called Greek Weird Wave, a movement centred on Poor...
The 6.4% price camp increase announced by Ofgem last week will have a huge effect on people in their homes and business owners across the UK. We’re...
THE mood music for the SNP is night and day from this time last year. But the First Minister won’t be taking the votes for granted just yet. What...
Next time you’re strolling through Glasgow and spot a CCTV camera, why not give a cheery wave in case there’s someone on the other end watching...
It has been interesting to distil my thoughts on the future of Glasgow, as The Herald has in the last week focused on this important topic in a...
IT is generally accepted that renting a home in the long-term does not make much financial sense. Years of expensive monthly payments and there is...
Days on from Donald Trump and JD Vance’s Oval Office ambush of Ukraine’s president and the outrage shows no signs of abating. If anything, the...
Recently I fulfilled a lifelong dream of visiting Nashville, Tennessee, or Music City as the locals like to call it. I did all the things you’d...
Buoyant household disposable incomes and confident consumers are critical to the health of the retail industry and all who rely on it, whether...
When I first moved to a city, after university, I could not get used to sooty streets that the sun never reached and to people hurrying past...
The end of James Bond as we know him is almost assured. The licence to kill, albeit in film terms, hasn’t exactly been revoked, but it’s clearly...
In response to The Herald's in-depth series about the future of education on Mull, Willie Sullivan, the Electoral Reform Society's Senior Director...
Nearly a week after the UK Government’s aid betrayal, the shockwaves are only beginning to be felt. By slashing the aid budget to fund a surge in...
There’s something thrilling about hitting your first piece of smooth tarmac roads after months of dirt track roads. It started with the off-ramp;...