Brian Cox with his lovely wife Nicole Ansari and Scottish actor Bill Paterson at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Picture by Bill Heaney
Category: Special Features
BOOKS: A revealing look inside the fascinating but damaged life of Shane MacGowan
Richard Balls’ brilliant new biography, A Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story Of Shane MacGowan, blows away some of the myths around Ireland’s greatest songwriter Review
BILL HEANEY’S NOTEBOOK COLUMN
Top picture: Nadine Dorries MP – “a more fair approach and a less elitist and a less snobbish approach as to who works for you”.
ERSKINE: Calling all shoppers to the annual Christmas Market
Calling all shoppers to the annual Christmas Market, raising funds for Veterans in Scotland By Susan Hamilton Scotland’s largest Veterans charity is calling on Christmas
BRIAN WILSON: JOHNSON’S APPROACH TO NORTHERN IRELAND SUMS UP THE DEGRADATION OF POLITICS
Watching last week’s BBC2 programme on the early days of Tony Blair’s premiership was to be reminded of the power for good that lies in
POSTCARDS FROM THE PANDEMIC: THE SHANACHIE
Above: Monument to Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in Madrid. Picture by Bill Heaney I chastised the Lodger when he admitted to drinking a beer