The first time I went to Hampden, the balls weren’t round. They were American footballs, which look like rugby balls that have been on a diet. Brown with obvious stitching,…
ARTICLES Hero or villain? Alasdair McKillop Appearing before the House of Commons foreign affairs committee to account for the length of time it had taken to compile and publish the…
Gay Talese didn’t want to write about Frank Sinatra. When the idea was first put to him by Esquire editor Harold Hayes, he demurred, reasoning there was little left to…
Rangers’ against-the-odds victory against Celtic in the Scottish Cup semi-final transported fans back to better times and followed a period of reflection on the fluctuations in the club’s fortunes. It…
It’s hard to keep up. The presenter Charlie Rose was fired by two American television networks at the end of November after the Washington Post reported eight women, three of…
A town should be capable of expanding into the furthest reaches of a child’s imagination. It should have places with strange names and strange places with names that have to…
Brian Fitzpatrick Bob Cant The Cafe Islay McLeod Michael Elcock Alasdair McKillop Quintin Jardine Bob Smith NHS scandal: Part II Kenneth Roy James Aitken Ian Hamilton Ruth Davidson. Drawing by…
The polling station is making a bold bid for equivalence with your local GP practice and car garage. Similar to a flu vaccination or MOT, we are now required to…
‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ is a summer album from its very first moments when the sounds of instruments being tuned plants the imagination in front of the park…
The coat hooks in the hall will soon be relieved of their heavy winter burden but not just yet. For now, there is still a requirement for coats with hoods,…