‘If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.’ â Ernest Rutherford In 1998 a Gallovidian octogenarian teacher described to her GP an eight-hour journey to obtain palliative…
1. ITV News has notched up a notable double triumph in this year’s prestigious British Journalism Awards for its riveting coverage of the savage and startling storming of the US…
I had difficulty deciding on a suitable topic this week. Partly because I’ve been unwell. Some three weeks ago, my partner and I rolled up at our local pharmacy for…
As we get ready to say goodbye to 2020 and all it has contained, this could be a good time to think about what we may have learned about ourselves…
1. Getting the year 2022 off on a very positive note, a new survey revealing how much people trust home-grown local news is especially good news for many, if indeed…
Browsing in a branch of Waterstones out at Fort Kinnaird some weeks ago, I noticed a paperback called The Stray Cats of Homs I hadn’t come across before. The author’s…
1. Amidst all the Brexit brouhaha, savage sackings and resignations not quite in tune with the ethos of one-nation Tories, plus the endless speculation on an imminent general election, I…
Although launched only a year ago in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic upheaval, a hyper-local independent community magazine project centred on Govanhill in Glasgow’s south side, has already emerged…
My husband is bemused by our tradition of sending Christmas cards. He doesn’t see the point. Where he comes from, no-one, or no-one he knows, sends Christmas or any other…
1. Influential US-based, British-born, media academic Emily Bell, hits the nail right on the head in pointing out: ‘Even connoisseurs of the BBC’s dangerous moments could tell you we are…