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There are seven types of atheist
Which one are you?
Last year I went to Budapest with my oldest friends for a lads’ weekend. These boys get thirsty. And so, because I am no longer much of a drinker, I excused myself one afternoon and went hunting for bookshops.
Andycore: How to dress like Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham outside Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall in 2020. Credit: PA/Jacob King
I’ve been waiting for a fashion editor somewhere to run the definitive piece on Andy Burnham’s dress sense. No such article has been commissioned so I though...
Thoughts on three years of The Jaggy Thistle
And news of some changes ahead
Three years ago I started this Substack with two aims. One was to earn a little money. The Times, where I was a staff writer, had cut back its Scottish budget and reduced my hours. I could have filled this ga...
Notebook #14: Three great new Scottish albums
From three admirably individual artists
It’s been a while since I did one of these Notebook round-ups of what’s caught my eye in the cultural world. Note to self: do this more often. Today I have new albums for you from three tremendous Sc...
First to the flag
In the ashes of defeat, Scottish Labour needs to rediscover the effortless small-n nationalism of Donald Dewar
Just before the opening of Scotland’s new parliament in 1999, Donald Dewar found himself speaking to a young Glasgow councillor...
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Columnist, The Times. Editor, The Jaggy Thistle. Orwell Fellow. I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king.
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