Drew Allan

A hardy youngster in gritty garb - short trousers and wellington boots – waits to cross Argyle Street while a snow plough does its work in the…

IT’S wartime – June, 1943 to be more precise – and women are taking over many traditionally-male roles. Here Inspector Harry Drewett gives…

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Forty years ago this week, as the Conservatives held their conference in Brighton, the talk was of the threat posed by the SDP-Liberal Alliance.…

Children's TV personality Glen Michael was the centre of attraction – along with Jackson the python – at an open day held by Glasgow's…

THERE will be a healthy attendance at Hampden Park tomorrow when Scotland take on the Republic of Ireland in a Uefa Nations League tie. The same…

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.

I HESITATE to open a can of worms here, but the preponderance of certain phrases can make me sick as a parrot – and it seems, from recent…

By Elisa Allen

FREE speech can be a vexed subject. At first glance, the concept ought to be a given in our democracy, but in fact it is far from clear-cut.

WE discussed in this slot some time ago the growing incidence of Americanisms in our language, which was irritating some of our readers. This week,…

IN our Sunday edition last week, we ran a column by Rab McNeil headlined: “How did Scotland adopt a white horse with a big stick coming oot its…

SPACE has once again been in the news in recent days. At the weekend Richard Branson's plans for commercial space tourism suffered a setback when…

THERE are so many things we can't do now that we used to take for granted. We can't travel to England (not this week, at least); we can't gather in…

IT will not have escaped your notice that the Queensferry Crossing has been the subject of controversy once again. It was shut for four hours last…

THERE'S a lot of fuss being made this week about a certain TV soap – you'll see from our On This Day section at the foot of the facing page that…

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…