Deutschland 83: Channel 4’s Sunday Night Politico-Culture Lesson

A German-based, Sunday night spy thriller accompanied with subtitles doesn’t seem like the most alluring pitch to the average telly watcher. However Channel 4 has got it spot on with its broadcasting of Deutschland 83 as a welcoming start to 2016. Delving into the heat of 1980s Cold War tensions, the plot follows spirited 24-year-old...

A Funny Thing is Happening on the Way to the Referendum

26th January 2014  A nation's a nation for a'that  Smug is as smug does. Though we'll get to John Barrowman later. In the meantime, the First Minister - top beneficiary of the smug jibe - was spotted early in the week with a cheeser like he'd got a coat hanger stuck in his toot. The...

Journalism students first to quiz Johann Lamont after Holyrood oil fund row

Journalism students from Glasgow Clyde College were treated to their own private scoop at Holyrood last week thanks to a timely Q&A session with Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont. Just hours earlier, Lamont had been at the heart of a fiery exchange of words during First Minister’s Questions when she had been asked twice by presiding...

Can I Have the Bill Please: Hold that Thought…Why are Scots Picking Up a Share of Maggie’s Exit Tab?

I promised myself I wouldn’t get caught up in the national hoo-ha, and forego writing a piece on Monday’s passing of Britain’s most famous milk snatcher - from any angle...just to pretend to be boringly bored of it all. . . .And then I saw the noughts on the potential funeral bill. I say potential...