Everybody knows Kevin Rowland. Or at least they think they do. That’s Kevin Rowland in dungarees with dark curly hair, kicking up a storm under a Silk Cut sign on the street outside a corner shop in 1982 with his raggle-taggle Celtic soul brothers, pleadi... See more
From the Stone Roses to Saga Cruises: how to grow old gracefully A FEW weeks ago I found myself in a little park in east London eating chips with Kevin Rowland. For a very pleasant and surprising hour or so we chatted about life and about Irish reunificat... See more
JJ Ó Dochartaigh can’t be with us today. That’s DJ Próvaí, the tricolour baclava-wearing teacher turned musical provocateur and third member of Kneecap. While I’m sitting down with Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap in central London, Ó Dochartaigh, following the ph... See more
Nothing lasts forever. I’ve edited over 960 editions of Big Issue. The actual total figure is not of massive consequence. The reason it was discussed of late is because this is my last edition of Big Issue. I step away after more than 19 years with the or... See more
There are 48,000 individual panes of glass in the roof of Glasgow Central Station. The area covers 2.2 square miles. It is a remarkable feat of Victorian engineering. A few days ago, it looked like this roof, and so much more of one of the great stations ... See more
