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![]() Dani GaravelliThe Guardian |
When I saw the women raising their champagne glasses after their Supreme Court victory, I felt that same queasy way I always feel at the end of long...
ON Monday night, I switched on BBC News at Ten to find out more about a horrific incident I’d seen fleeting headlines on earlier in the day. It...
WHAT does it take, these days, to start a national conversation? The answer would appear to be a bingeable TV or Netflix drama that “touches the...
WE all have guilty pleasure films. One of mine is A Few Good Men. I watch it almost every time it’s on, not because I am a fan of Tom Cruise or...
Last Saturday, I went for a night walk in Glasgow’s southside. It was Battlefield’s Window Wanderland weekend, so, in theory, my head was tilted...
For all my carping over Sir Keir Starmer, I don’t envy him. A technocrat in an age of populism, he has come to power at the worst possible time....
SO bigly has the world changed in the last eight years – so battered into submission have we been by the pandemic, conflicts, climate change and...
IN the documentary series Finding Britain’s Ghost Children, journalist Terri White spoke of school as her salvation: an oasis of calm in a...
THE legislation allowing for the earlier release of some short-term prisoners from Scotland’s overcrowded jails is a broadly positive move, which...
EDINBURGH University — in common with most Russell Group institutions — prides itself on its efforts to help underprivileged young people gain...
THE trumpet sounds, the cheery green owl bows this way, then that, and, as the words “Perfect Lesson” appear on the screen, I feel a shot of...
LEGACIES are complex, contested things. The greater the influence a politician has wielded, the more likely they are to have made enemies along the...
Earlier this month, I was asked to take part in an event in the Charles Wilson building directly opposite the Glasgow University Union. It was a...
IN THE week the rest of the world was fighting for Oasis tickets, our young team had their eyes on a different prize. When the clock struck 7pm on...
GETTING emotional over my work is not something I’m prone to, but I did shed a tear when the Scottish government confirmed all the remaining...
ON FRIDAY morning, in preparation for writing this column, I started jotting down all the catastrophic decisions, announcements and events the SNP...
“Country first, party second” was a campaign soundbite that was supposed to herald a new style of government in which Labour put itself in the...
A long time ago - 34 years to be precise - I did a heinous thing which I have never been allowed to forget. Let me set the scene. It was July 1,...