A beautiful review by Teddy befitting of last night's farewell.

Joan Baez meets the Stones backstage at the Glasgow Odeon, October 1965

Thursday, Edinburgh. Can’t wait.

Quite a coup I thought.

You only have until Saturday to catch the impressive Paula Rego Visions of English Literature exhibition at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock. Features her take on classic nursery rhymes and Peter Pan, amongst others.

Shop covered in Hallowe’en paraphernalia.

It’s September…

Really chuffed to be shortlisted for the Wigtown Book Festival's Anne Brown prize again. I love non-fiction essays, reading them & writing them, & the award provides a rare opportunity to have a go. Good luck to everyone.

💫Released on this day 1982💥

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Pipers, ceilidhs and Celtic strips: why Barga is the most Scottish town in Italy More than 150 years of back and forth migration to Scotland have turned this commune into a unique hybrid.

“Here flags are not a symbol not of hate, but of unity and peace,” Mayor Campani tells me. On a weekend marred by racist protests, I visited Barga, Italy's most Scottish town, and a festival which celebrates all that is good about emigration/immigration. www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

Happy publication day @peteralanross.bsky.social Upon A White Horse is a celebration of landscape and people - and all that is beautiful, strange and old.

Out now: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHorse

Dani Garavelli · Dance in the Rain: Sturgeon comes out swinging It’s hard to articulate what Nicola Sturgeon’s feminism meant to someone like me who moved back to Scotland in the...

"In the de-Sturgeonisation process that took place in the wake of her resignation..her relatability, gravitas & high approval ratings were forgotten; her managerialism, insularity & lack of transparency stressed." I wrote about Sturgeon's memoir & attempt to reclaim the narrative in the @lrb.co.uk

Yes, of course!

So, if you’re going to Dublin to research your dissertation on Irish politics, of course I’ll come.

This is so great to see x

Anger as Glasgow School of Art closes stained glass studio Glasgow School of Art has decided to shut a stained glass studio and end the classes, severing the institution’s last link to the craft which…

Anger as Glasgow School of Art closes its stained glass studio and ends its classes, severing its long links with the endangered craft. My story for the @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2527841...

As Father’s Day presents go… #nowplaying

Dani Garavelli · ‘Bang! I was out’: On Drug Consumption Rooms For some critics, providing a safe space to inject seems too much like enabling or endorsing drug taking. But for those...

“There’s only so many times you can be lucky, sweetheart.” I spent several days at The Thistle - the UK’s first safer drug consumption facility - talking to staff & users. Here is the piece I wrote for the @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Barga from my window

#journorequest

Great achievement. So pleased.

Hotter than yesterday. Love Bologna.

Rain was forecast but have thankfully seen none so far.

More years than it should have been since we were last in Lucca. Beautiful as ever.

Can’t wait to read this from the hugely talented @danielgraywriter.bsky.social This Sunday I’ll be having a pub lunch in one of my favourite Lanarkshire towns (Strathaven) with some relatives I haven’t seen for a while and Ethel the Pug.

Reform is ending Scotland’s indyref era The country’s politics has been defined by the independence question for more than a decade. Now Nigel Farage’s party is forcing a realignment

Could the threat of Reform lead to a previously unthinkable SNP/Scottish Labour coalition? Could the rise of the right be what it takes to put an end to the unionist/nationalist divide? My piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/sco...

In 2018, I sat down on a doorstep beside two rough sleepers & recorded their lives. The R4 series Tara & George asked what led the couple to the streets. Last autumn, I was contacted by Tara’s brother, Shaun. She’s dead. Sun 16 Feb on BBC Radio 4 at 715pm & BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Dani Garavelli · Jailed, Failed, Forgotten: Deaths in Custody William had spent most of his life in the care of the state. His story was one of intergenerational trauma, common to...

"It would have taken little money/effort to remove bunk beds from single occupancy cells, & doorstops could have been replaced with anti-suicide alternatives.The bunk beds & doorstops were still in Polmont when the FAI began 6 years later." Last punt of my LRB longread. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Mogwai: always mighty

I was lucky enough to see the incredible @agiantonthebridge.bsky.social last night. It was a nuanced, thrilling production devised, written and performed by mega talented writers & musicians including Liam Hurley, Jo Mango and Louis Abbott, and it has already earned glowing reviews. mfl

Lloyd Cole Live Reviewed: Four decades of timeless songwriting Former Commotions leader returns to Glasgow to deliver some – but not all - of his finest moments in career-spanning set.

Hazy memories from a lost weekend in Glasgow last night

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