Moonshot in St Enoch Square.

Diego Armando Maradona, who died on this day in 2020, aged 60. Here he is aged 18 in June 1979, looking out over Hope Street from the Central Hotel. He scored his first goal for Argentina that day, the third in a 3-1 win. #Glasgow #maradona

A small act of kindness by Archie Gemmill, impressed Italian in-laws and the hunt for tickets. Another punt for my @heraldscotland.bsky.social piece on following Scotland at the World Cup finals which appeared in the print edition today.

I really enjoyed writing this piece for @heraldscotland.bsky.social on the highs and lows of watching Scotland at the World Cup finals which, after the win over Denmark, is something a new generation is about to experience. www.heraldscotland.com/sport/footba...

Me and @caitlinsmith.bsky.social have teamed up to make another BBC Radio 4 documentary. If At First You Don't Secede asks if there is any way through the current impasse on independence. It's on this coming Sunday (November 23) at 1.30pm if you fancy a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

My pic from the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, St. Etienne, as Scotland lined up for their last match at a World Cup finals, on 23 June 1998. At full-time, upset kids were being consoled by their parents. Now those young fans may well be planning a football odyssey with their own children next summer.

"But let’s not allow the ruling to feed into the illusion that we are now living in a world in which women have the upper hand." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on the Supreme Court judgement on the application of Scotland's rape shield laws. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...

What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true. It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately. If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website. gailmyerscough.co.uk A repost would be lovely too.

"As for the monarchy, it will end not with a bang but a whimper. Giuffre’s book, with all its harrowing details, is one more wave battering against its cliff face, eroding the public’s faith." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Really delighted to have been shortlisted for the features category at the British Journalism Awards 2025 alongside some of my favourite writers. pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...

A beautiful review by Teddy befitting of last night's farewell.

Joan Baez meets the Stones backstage at the Glasgow Odeon, October 1965

Thursday, Edinburgh. Can’t wait.

You only have until Saturday to catch the impressive Paula Rego Visions of English Literature exhibition at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock. Features her take on classic nursery rhymes and Peter Pan, amongst others.

It’s September…

Really chuffed to be shortlisted for the Wigtown Book Festival's Anne Brown prize again. I love non-fiction essays, reading them & writing them, & the award provides a rare opportunity to have a go. Good luck to everyone.

💫Released on this day 1982💥 #musicsky #recordingsky #recordingstudiosky #musicmoments #musicthread #musicproduction #onthisday

“Here flags are not a symbol not of hate, but of unity and peace,” Mayor Campani tells me. On a weekend marred by racist protests, I visited Barga, Italy's most Scottish town, and a festival which celebrates all that is good about emigration/immigration. www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

Happy publication day @peteralanross.bsky.social Upon A White Horse is a celebration of landscape and people - and all that is beautiful, strange and old. Out now: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHorse

"In the de-Sturgeonisation process that took place in the wake of her resignation..her relatability, gravitas & high approval ratings were forgotten; her managerialism, insularity & lack of transparency stressed." I wrote about Sturgeon's memoir & attempt to reclaim the narrative in the @lrb.co.uk

So, if you’re going to Dublin to research your dissertation on Irish politics, of course I’ll come.

Anger as Glasgow School of Art closes its stained glass studio and ends its classes, severing its long links with the endangered craft. My story for the @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2527841...

As Father’s Day presents go… #nowplaying

“There’s only so many times you can be lucky, sweetheart.” I spent several days at The Thistle - the UK’s first safer drug consumption facility - talking to staff & users. Here is the piece I wrote for the @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Barga from my window

Great achievement. So pleased.

More years than it should have been since we were last in Lucca. Beautiful as ever.

Can’t wait to read this from the hugely talented @danielgraywriter.bsky.social This Sunday I’ll be having a pub lunch in one of my favourite Lanarkshire towns (Strathaven) with some relatives I haven’t seen for a while and Ethel the Pug.

Could the threat of Reform lead to a previously unthinkable SNP/Scottish Labour coalition? Could the rise of the right be what it takes to put an end to the unionist/nationalist divide? My piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/sco...

In 2018, I sat down on a doorstep beside two rough sleepers & recorded their lives. The R4 series Tara & George asked what led the couple to the streets. Last autumn, I was contacted by Tara’s brother, Shaun. She’s dead. Sun 16 Feb on BBC Radio 4 at 715pm & BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"It would have taken little money/effort to remove bunk beds from single occupancy cells, & doorstops could have been replaced with anti-suicide alternatives.The bunk beds & doorstops were still in Polmont when the FAI began 6 years later." Last punt of my LRB longread. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Mogwai: always mighty

I was lucky enough to see the incredible @agiantonthebridge.bsky.social last night. It was a nuanced, thrilling production devised, written and performed by mega talented writers & musicians including Liam Hurley, Jo Mango and Louis Abbott, and it has already earned glowing reviews. mfl

Hazy memories from a lost weekend in Glasgow last night www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...

"Time has not diminished his voice; if anything, it’s better – warmer, richer, burnished with experience." I went to see Lloyd Cole in Glasgow and wrote about it for The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

First gig of the year, and @lloydcole.bsky.social was in fine form and fine voice in Glasgow last night as part of Celtic Connections.