A telephone is ringing in the darkness and snatches of conversation can be heard: ‘same slate’, ‘still running’, ‘cut-throat’… ‘Okay, Rick, what’s the game?’ ‘Cut-throat’ ‘What’s the object of it?’…
In late 1969, Tam Dalyell picked up a phone message in the lobby of the House of Commons summoning him to the Home Office – Jim Callaghan was peeved. On…
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…
Get on yer bike Beijing style, and remember the kitchen sink Alison Prince TT racing on Arran? John Cameron I remember reading with a sense of foreboding in 2008 that…
The number of photographers to achieve a level fame beyond the ranks of their colleagues is small. Annie Leibovitz, recently commissioned to photograph the royal family to mark the Queen’s…
Kenneth Roy Dominic Brown Chris Spalding Bill Heaney Islay McLeod Quintin Jardine and others Alan Fisher Alasdair McKillop A recent article in the Herald by Gerry Braiden reported that the…
Kenneth Roy Dominic Brown Chris Spalding Bill Heaney Islay McLeod Quintin Jardine and others Alan Fisher Alasdair McKillop A recent article in the Herald by Gerry Braiden reported that the…