I realise that today’s big story is the public sector strike, but this blog has a long and proud tradition of having its finger more up its nose than on the pulse, so I’m blogging about Leveson instead. Specifically, former News of the World journalist Paul McMullen. Now I’m as big a world-weary cynic as [...]
I don’t think I’ve ever been under any illusions about the tabloid press. They have always made me feel queasy, but still, I was taken aback by the evidence that Hugh Grant submitted to the Leveson Inquiry. The paparazzi hounded his pregnant girlfriend, harassed her when she had just given birth, almost ran over her [...]
One of the great things about city living is that, on nights when you take it into your head to get off the settee and go out of an evening, there’s always lots going on. This evening, when such a notion took me, I found that the amateur orchestra, Glasgow Sinfonia, was playing at the [...]