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 [...]
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 [...]
I write emails to supermarkets. I’m that sort of person. Sometimes I write to ask why my tomatoes need to be cushioned by a polystyrene base and encased in indestructible plastic. Sometimes I enquire why I can’t buy a single courgette when that is all I require. But mostly, I email to ask why on [...]