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Dani Garavelli

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Transgender ruling may resolve the law but it can’t make our society whole again

Transgender ruling may resolve the law but it can’t make our society whole again

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...

21.04.2025 8

Herald Scotland

Dani Garavelli

US favouring those guilty of Gaza genocide over ones who call it out is outrageous 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.

US favouring those guilty of Gaza genocide over ones who call it out is outrageous 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.

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...

07.04.2025 10

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Dani Garavelli

Disturbing TV hit Adolescence exposes a chasm that has opened up between generations

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...

24.03.2025 3

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Dani Garavelli

USA is a rogue state and all the certainties that once framed our lives have now gone WE all have guilty pleasure films. One of mine is A Few Good Men.

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...

10.03.2025 3

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Dani Garavelli

Glaswegians - if you want a city rebirth get off the sidelines and stop carping

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...

24.02.2025 10

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Dani Garavelli

Dani Garavelli: The wrong man at the wrong time? Step forward Sir Keir Starmer Keir Starmer is stuck with a Brexit he actively opposed but cannot overturn, and a US president he must abhor but cannot disown. He now faces a third existential threat: a rapidly rising Reform UK with its eyes firmly fixed on his red-wall voters. Who would be him?

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....

10.02.2025 8

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Dani Garavelli

We cannot give in to defeatism as Trump’s toxic influence poisons the global well 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 the rise of the right – it is difficult to recall the shock of Donald Trump’s first election victory, or to summon up the spirit of resistance that led millions to protest in the days after his 2017 inauguration.

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...

30.12.2024 10

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Dani Garavelli

SNP must tackle the disturbing 'vanishing' of pupils from Scotland’s classrooms IN the documentary series Finding Britain’s Ghost Children, journalist Terri White spoke of school as her salvation: an oasis of calm in a childhood punctuated by physical and sexual abuse, and a route out of poverty and degradation.

IN the documentary series Finding Britain’s Ghost Children, journalist Terri White spoke of school as her salvation: an oasis of calm in a...

16.12.2024 5

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Dani Garavelli

SNP progress on Scotland’s buckling prison system is head-bangingly slow By Dani Garavelli

THE legislation allowing for the earlier release of some short-term prisoners from Scotland’s overcrowded jails is a broadly positive move, which...

01.12.2024 10

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Dani Garavelli

Edinburgh Uni must stop appalling snobbery from Saltburn-esque toff students

EDINBURGH University — in common with most Russell Group institutions — prides itself on its efforts to help underprivileged young people gain...

17.11.2024 5

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Dani Garavelli

Grazie to Duolingo for helping me reconnect to my magical childhood memories of Italy

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...

03.11.2024 3

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Dani Garavelli

Friends and foes' narrative-shaping has failed both sides of Alex Salmond's character

LEGACIES are complex, contested things. The greater the influence a politician has wielded, the more likely they are to have made enemies along the...

20.10.2024 10

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Dani Garavelli

Dani Garavelli: University students will continue to thrive against crumbling world

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...

03.10.2024 3

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Dani Garavelli

If The Shed was as popular as those lamenting its loss claim, it wouldn’t be closing

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...

08.09.2024 3

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Dani Garavelli

That no Scottish child will ever be jailed again is something to be proud of 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 children detained in Polmont had finally been transferred to secure care.

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...

02.09.2024 2

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Dani Garavelli

This omnishambles SNP is on a Doomsday cult mission towards complete self-destruction

ON FRIDAY morning, in preparation for writing this column, I started jotting down all the catastrophic decisions, announcements and events the SNP...

25.08.2024 4

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Dani Garavelli

Starmer has completely blown his chance to show change is possible within the union

“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...

28.07.2024 5

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Dani Garavelli

Scotland's Anyone But England mentality is rooted in deep-seated insecurity

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,...

14.07.2024 20

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