Opinion Hugh MacDonald: Taggart was loved because it was of us, for us and by us
There is no mystery as to why Taggart is viewed with deep affection 40 years after its birth
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I've been writing for The Herald for 40 years, though regular readers swear it seems longer. I've been chief sub-editor, literary editor, deputy sports editor, chief sportswriter and now a Saturday columnist. Opinion is divided on whether this is a testimony to my versatility or a judgment on my inability to hang on to a job.
I've been writing for The Herald for 40 years, though regular readers swear it seems longer. I've been chief sub-editor, literary editor, deputy sports editor, chief sportswriter and now a Saturday columnist. Opinion is divided on whether this is a testimony to my versatility or a judgment on my inability to hang on to a job.
There is no mystery as to why Taggart is viewed with deep affection 40 years after its birth
CUE Rocky music. Pan to Chris Hoy sprinting up Buchanan Street with thousands of helmeted athletes in his wake. Cut to a brisk jog up the steps of the Concert Hall and close in on two arms raised by the great Olympian to celebrate Glasgow as the greatest sporting city in the world.
He was the quintessential "fitba" man. He was also, in the Scottish vernacular, simply some man.
When the origins story of the modern SNP comes to be filmed, Winnie Ewing may not be cast as mother but she must be considered, at least, in the role of midwife to the birth of a force that has come to dominate Scotland politically.
GEORGE Leslie, one of the titans of the modern Scottish independence movement, has died, aged 86 ...
GEORGE Leslie, one of the titans of the modern Scottish independence movement, has died, aged 86.
There was a soldier, a Scottish soldier, who wandered far away.
ON a dreich Friday night a decade ago, Nicola Sturgeon walked on to the stage of the Pearce Institute in Govan and delivered a measured, gracious and fitting tribute to my late father.
Hugh MacDonald has been asked who he'll be backing at the World Cup for 50 years. It's an easy answer. Forever Brazil. And here's why...
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