November 2025
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Those were the days of miracles and wonder… Glasgow 1985, and it’s the Rock Garden in Queen Street, sometimes the Halt in Woodlands Road, the Fixx in Miller Street. All kinds of London record company characters are blowing in via the Holiday Inn to check out the action. The haircuts, the clothes, the drugs and…
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The culling of late night BBC Radio Scotland. “The Bauerisation of Scottish public broadcasting.”
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The fury of culturally-fleeced Shetland knitters. And two songs, loosely woven around the subject. Channel Four’s horrible attempt to turn knitting into a televisual bloodsport, Game of Wool, is subtitled ‘Britain’s best Knitter’. I can unequivocally say that there are technically better and more creative knitters than anyone on the show, including the judges, within…
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This was an editorial I wrote for the November 2012 edition of the now-deceased magazine Shetland Life “To the world, he was just one. To me, he was all the world.” November is the month of remembrance. Remembering the dead of not just two world wars, but the wars that have taken place since. The…
