Drew Allan

YOU never fail to amaze me, dear readers. We have, I believe, the biggest letters space of any Scottish daily paper to fill on a daily basis –…

FORTY years ago today, the Glasgow Herald reported the untimely death of Labour stalwart Frank McElhone, who had suffered a heart attack at the age…

SOME personal news, as they say on Twitter: I’ll be attending a cèilidh soon. Actually, hold that thought: the invitation says it’s a ceilidh.

LIKE the BBC, parents and the very best schoolteachers, The Herald has a remit, some of which may not be immediately obvious: we need to inform,…

I IMAGINE that life in the old days was a bit less complicated for a Letters Editor.

THESE are grim days on our High Streets. Dear old Debenhams, 242 years old, survived recessions, the Great Depression and two world wars, but has…

FIFTY years ago this week, France was in mourning. Charles de Gaulle, soldier, statesman, architect of France’s Fifth Republic and leader of the…

IF it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. How often have we ignored that advice, and come to rue it? So it was in the early 1990s when the city of Glasgow…

THERE was welcome news for Scottish football fans this week – as we reported yesterday, Nicola Sturgeon has announced that restricted numbers of…

AS may be noted from our “On this day” feature at the foot of the facing page, today would have been the celebrated actress Mae West’s…