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Mark SmithHerald Scotland |
You may be getting a little tired right now of loud opinionated male millionaires throwing their weight around but they can be right sometimes. One...
People of Scotland, prepare to be addressed by your First Minister. Mr Swinney will speak to us on Wednesday and will lay out his vision for the years...
The Glasgow councillor Thomas Kerr has defected from the Tories to Reform and I’m thinking about the time I walked down Shettleston Road with Mr...
You know the score: building is neglected, building deteriorates, building goes on fire (probably), building is pulled down, building is gone for...
Reports of big cats prowling round the British countryside usually turn out to be domestic moggies who’ve had a few too many Lick-E-Lix Salmon...
Let me do you a list. The one across from my flat. The one at the end of the street where I used to live. The one near my old office. The one on...
I had reason to eat hospital food recently. Round and round the canteen I went looking for something that wasn’t fried or processed or boiled to...
A friend tells me about the rat he saw in his garden. “It was as big as a rabbit!” he says. “With a mean look on its face!” A neighbour tells...
Sorry to end the year on a downer but Nicola Sturgeon has been talking about how politics has changed and the mysterious forces that are apparently...
2024: Starmer in, Yousaf out. Energy prices down, energy prices up. More fighting in Ukraine, more fighting in Gaza. An assassin fails in his...
We have been here before. A woman is attacked by a dog. She is treated at the scene but the medics cannot save her. Her friends and family talk...
Look at it now: girders stripped of stone, gaping windows, doors to nowhere. Every now and then someone stops to take a look but most people are...
I was up in Inverness recently stopping people in the street and asking them questions, as you do, and one thing that kept coming up, because I...
It’s the borderlands: the moorlands, hills and forests where Ayrshire becomes Galloway and where, in the last year, there have been several...
If you haven’t been to the new Perth Museum yet, do go. Very good. The exhibition about the Stone of Destiny is particularly lively but I...
I met him, once. First impressions: not good. Skin: thin. Self-esteem: high. Self-awareness: low. Saving grace: the odd good one-liner. He said...
Shoplifting in Scotland is up 25% in a year and yet the news has created barely a ripple. People walk into shops, they steal, they pinch, they...
We’re starting to get our first impressions of Russell Findlay, the new leader of the Scottish Conservatives, but one of the first things I said...
The first thing I did was check whether the windows were real because you’ll remember that when Glen Sannox was “launched” in 2017, the windows...
If you want me, I’ll be in Magpie’s Nest, and if you ask nicely I’ll take you across the road to the Pearce Institute for a plate of chips as...
Ask me what I hate. Lots of things. I hate that the Scots pay higher taxes than the English. I hate that so many people still eat animals and abuse...
The Scottish Government, now largely free of the influence of the Greens we think and hope, has ditched some of its plans on wood-burning stoves....
I don’t want to imagine what it’s like to go and visit the grave of a friend or relative and discover the cooncil has slapped a gummy, gaudy...
The council in Glasgow is asking residents to help clear leaves off the streets and the way people have reacted to the idea is revealing. Call it...
Full disclosure: I went to private school, my parents paid the fees, the education was good and I’m sure it improved my chances and opportunities....
Right, let’s see what all the fuss is about. I jump in the car and drive along Paisley Road West and there it is. A big hairy man and a big hairy...
You may have read my opinion piece the other day about the A9. The thrust of it was that the Scottish Government is committed to dualling the road...
Today’s the day, or at least it should have been. The UK’s first drug consumption room was due to open in Glasgow this week but it’s been pushed...
Next time you’re stuck behind slow-moving traffic on the A9, do not clench your teeth, do not swear, and do not, for heaven’s sake, attempt a...
Everyone is talking about their last encounter with Alex Salmond so I’ll do it too. It was late last year, we talked on the phone a couple of...
I remember the day an English person I used to work with who doesn’t speak to me anymore found out that I am not left-wing. “You’re not...
The fact the police could do something in the name of solving crime doesn’t mean they should. The police could, if we allowed them to,...
Let’s drop everything and go to a garden centre; it always ends well. Two of the best? Gemmell’s in Ayrshire and McLaren’s near Glasgow, and...
If you think you know Byres Road, I recommend you do what I’ve just done and take a stroll along it with Barclay Price. Barclay is an author and...
It’s funny how they always use the language of war. “Living in fear”. “Attack”. “Bombardment”. They also say that we should get them...
I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you how awful the Scottish ferry fiasco has been – the delays, the over-runs, the over-spends – but what we...
I’m in the Gorbals and the first person I bump into is Monica from New York. She’s visiting Scotland for a while and has come for a wander round...
Everyone’s talking about the 10th anniversary of the 2014 referendum and because I’m easily led, I’m going to do it too, and for the purposes...
I’m not particularly proud to say this, and it’s taken a while and it’s been a bit of a struggle to be honest, but I appear to be out of the...
There was new research this week which found that British national pride has declined sharply in the last ten years or so. The number of Brits who...
I’m going to be honest here: when I first saw the new bridge going up between Govan and Partick, I wasn’t happy. The project includes a new plaza...
Ten years since the independence referendum. So what do I remember? Watching Gordon Brown in Kilmarnock doing one of his last-minute,...
People are never asking me how I come up with the ideas for my columns so I’ll tell you: I come up with the ideas for my columns when I’m sitting...
There was talk over the weekend about the rise in council tax that’s inevitably coming when the current freeze – announced last year by Humza...
I know, you know, he knows that Alastair Campbell is not a man people feel neutral about. Mention his name to friends and family, as I did when I...
We know the risk to the buildings in Glasgow because we can see it for ourselves. The flames shooting out of the terrace on Carlton Place this...
Glaswegians are used to the sound of an explosion and a building being turned into rubble and dust. You may remember 2014 when there were plans to...
We all know things aren’t going well for councils in Scotland and that they’re about to get worse with the bin strikes, but the question is how...
The writing is on the wall for greyhound racing according to an MSP who’s introduced a bill to ban the sport and maybe he’s right although I have...
The man who fitted my dishwasher the other week used to work on the bins in Glasgow and told me how one day – in a story revealing him to be the...
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