'Many people I know find shopping in Primark to induce crippling anxiety, but I love it. There is an art to having a good shop at the high street staple' || @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/life...

Fantastic article by Marissa. Once you've read it make a donation to womens aid, please,they do amazing and often unseen work and they really need all of our help to keep going. womensaid.org.uk/donate-now/

Frontline women’s services are in free fall leaving countless vulnerable people at risk. This is the conversation that should be topping the agenda regarding women’s rights.Culture wars are a distraction, austerity is the key threat. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...

'Celebrating the exclusion of 0.44% of the population from Rape Crisis while the organisation is in freefall (and probably won't even exist in 10 years because of funding cuts) is performative' || @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social👇 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴

Excellent piece by my @heraldscotland.bsky.social colleague

I really struggle to understand what these anti-trans people have ever done for women in Scotland. The fight that matters to me is the one that ensures women aren't immolated or strangled by men in their lives. ✍️ @heraldscotland www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol... Bravo @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social - calling it out

M&S leaving our town centres marks the end of a middle-class dream, ✍️ @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2558...

Scotland's first floating sauna boat is worth checking out - there is something quite mystical about jumping in a loch in the autumn (yes, it is cold). @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

'Relationships are reciprocal. If you stop showing up for people around you, they very well might stop showing up for you' @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social on self-care becoming shorthand for self-indulgence www.heraldscotland.com/opin...

Have we taken self-care too far, asks Herald columnist @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

'Any other city in Europe would be celebrating these lanes, would be using them as facilities, we would be bringing them to life with bars and cafes...' www.heraldscotland.com/news... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social

To pull a concept from one of my favourite Kurt Vonnegut novels, Mother Night (1961), we are who we pretend to be. Reading books does, in fact, make you a reader. ✍️ @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2551...

www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social

The Kirk is reshaping itself around fewer charges and fewer buildings, but aiming to leave “well-equipped spaces in the right places” to carry out its mission. Culross Abbey, beautiful though it is, no longer meets that test. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

Matcha has become a booming market worth more than £45 million in the UK alone www.heraldscotland.com/life... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social

Thanks, @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social has answered my question without me having to try a #matcha at all!!

"...a fascinating choice for a group who want to remove any and all foreign influence from the UK! I guess American right-wing politics don’t count." - @garbageday.email 📸Gordon Terris www.heraldscotland.com/politics/wes...

'Her gimmick is to promote misogynistic and disgusting views on women for clicks and cash. 'A virtue signalling campaign to ban the Bang Bus won’t solve the problem' www.heraldscotland.com/poli... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social

Banning Bonnie Blue and her disgusting Bang Bus would be a mistake || @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/poli...

Last week, I visited Glasgow's newest high street blood clinic, Bloodtek, for a full body MOT to find out more about the private testing craze popping up all over the internet and the UK... @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

'Blood clinics, like the one I visited earlier this month, have been popping up on high streets across Scotland' www.heraldscotland.com/life... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social

"I am so fed up with this circular firing squad and I fear for the future of our creative scene." Some essential reading in this opinion column from Marissa on Scottish cultural organisations and the growing pressure they are coming under from activists and campaigns.

Premeditated brutalisation? Planned and violent attack? What kind of artist activists would paint their relatively minor scuffle with police with the same brush as the very genocide they are meant to be showing solidarity with? @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...

No matter how the DMMO decides to sell the city, I do hope they choose ambition over a bland non-serif font slapped on a pink background. ✍️ @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2545...

I'm looking for wellness/health/lifestyle in Scotland stories for an exciting new chapter of my role at @heraldscotland.bsky.social Got a story? Email me at [email protected] 💌 #journorequest

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social

It was an otherwise typical day at The Barras when I heard it. “Get your Labubus! Ten pounds!” shouted a familiar voice. The voice of The Barras itself. It was the cigarettes-tobacco-Viagra man. ✍️ @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2542...

Scottish Borders Council made the controversial decision to axe a class from Heriot Primary. Now the community is fighting to protect its future www.heraldscotland.com/news... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social

A knee jerk decision from Borders Council threatens to change the direction of life in Heriot. From today’s @heraldscotland.bsky.social a deep dive into the delicate balance required to keep a rural village thriving. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2538820...

Once a sentimental place where people said goodbye to their loved ones, the old Victoria Infirmary has been transformed into a dizzying liminal space of beige brick and rose gold cladding, complete with a Starbucks. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2540...

I'm all for a congestion charge in Glasgow if we have A FUNCTIONING AND AFFORDABLE PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM in place, but alas....

'The entire concept that young people should be paid less than older people, just because of their age, is entirely absurd' www.heraldscotland.com/opin... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social

Stop paying young people less just because they are young. @heraldscotland.bsky.social ✍️ www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2539...

'How Spider-Man made me late for work' 🕷️ @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social on how Spider-Man filming has highlighted differences and similarities between Glasgow and New York www.heraldscotland.com/opin...

Residents were evacuated nearly a month ago, and still haven't been able to access their belongings. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2537091... @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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You need super powers to get through the traffic in Glasgow this week - so maybe stop driving into the city centre? @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2537...

'We have had people sitting down and looking at the menus, and because of the noise, they say they are very sorry but can’t stay' www.heraldscotland.com/news... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social

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If your explore page looks like this, perhaps my column about everyone being "convinced" they have ADHD is for you @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2535...

One bar has shut its doors and warns its sister venue could be next amid major sewer works in Glasgow City Centre “I have had many sleepless nights because I can see my business is going down the drain,” Nunzio says. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2535382... @heraldscotland.bsky.social

You can find every article from the first two days of the series HERE: heraldscotland.com/life_style/f... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social @joshpizpom.bsky.social

'It starts with the dreaded WhatsApp group... 'Before you know it, you’re expected to fork over a £600 deposit or risk looking like a terrible friend' www.heraldscotland.com/opin... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social‬

'I think people are actually just realising what they’ve got on their own doorstep and a lot of businesses are seeing that potential' www.heraldscotland.com/news... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social‬

“It moves with the times. Ten years ago, you would not have put Pride, Moulin Rouge and Barras Market in the same sentence. That’s pretty exciting, in and of itself.” www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Unless you are footing the bill for your swanky, self-indulgent getaway, you should get your head checked. 🙂 www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2533... @heraldscotland.bsky.social

'Flying today is a late capitalist hellscape' www.heraldscotland.com/opin... @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social‬