“A product of real life experience and close female collaboration” Happy to read this glowing review of Ashley Storrie’s new series of Dinosaur, by @chitgrrl.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

"Friends Again? Nothing on the Old Fruitmarket stage suggested anything other than delight in each other’s company and joy in playing these songs." I went to see a very special show and wrote about it for The Times. www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

Joyous Friends Again gig at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow tonight, wonderfully supported by birthday boy Lloyd Cole.

"Taut leathery skin hangs like a tabard over the torsos of the best-preserved Urbania mummies, & loosely over the legs & arms like an ageing elephant’s." I visited the Chiesa dei Morti and wrote about death, life and suchlike over on substack. (it's free!) danigaravelli.substack.com/p/la-chiesa-...

Quite a line-up.

I'm also chuffed to have been asked to write the introduction to Gentlemen of the West. The new Polygon editions of her books are gorgeous with art works by Joan Eardley on the front. Here's a preorder link for them all. birlinn.co.uk/contributor/...

Glasgow Apollo quip from the fantastic Emmylou Harris at #CelticConnections tonight: They used to say the heating was out but that it would be working the next time.

I have my original editions still but these new @aowensarchive.bsky.social ones with Joan Eardley art work and introductions by excellent Scottish women writers like @danigaravelli.bsky.social & Jenni Fagan look great

"I told them, then, how his dad and I had painted his nursery yellow when he was a tiny, unborn thing, known to us only as 'button'”. My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on a paint job and the small joys that keep us from becoming bitter. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2572507...

My stupidly talented friend Mike created this magnificent @heraldscotland.bsky.social front page, and now it’s up for Front Page of the Year. He deserves all the recognition he’s received for it, and it would be much appreciated if you gave it a vote www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2025/news/ch...

Never heard this until today WTF? open.spotify.com/track/7KSnE4...

Great headline

It’s not every day you find out a former colleague is a member of the House of Lords. Catherine is super smart and kind - exactly the kind of person needed in a legislature. www.thetimes.com/article/d50d...

The scruffy side of Porto, Portugal #Photography #Architecture #Porto 📷

A wee bit I wrote about the hammerblow of watching people from the country that gave us the Glasgow girls and Kenmure Street turn to the right. And about the opportunism of Farage as he heads north. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

👀The mesmerising sight and industrial orchestra of the new Nutmeg parading through the print presses. 🧎🏻It seems to do a celebratory knee-slide at the end. 🛒Order one of these beauties direct. The perfect football escape: tiny.cc/z32w001

What a place!

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I'm not really starting a substack, I don't think. But 1 of the best things that happened to me this year was being shortlisted for the Anne Brown essay prize. The essay was on my great aunt, her house & her remarkable siblings. You can read it here, if you like. danigaravelli.substack.com/p/lepanto

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...