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Dani Garavelli

Dani Garavelli

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Making John Swinney leader may be the SNP’s smartest move in years

John Swinney’s accession to the leadership of the Scottish National party has been called a “coronation”. Yet the smooth handover of power that...

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No Mr Yousaf, Scottish independence is certainly not 'frustratingly close'

THAT Humza Yousaf messed up was a given. He admitted as much in his resignation speech when he said he had underestimated the degree of hurt his...

05.05.2024 20

Herald Scotland

Dani Garavelli

The SNP ditching its Green allies has backfired on Humza Yousaf – and set back the cause of independence

The Bute House agreement (BHA) was supposed to stabilise the SNP. Brokered by Nicola Sturgeon in August 2021, the coalition with the Greens at first...

26.04.2024 20

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When holidaying these days, my missing children feel like phantom limbs

MY sons were born travellers. That’s not a boast; it’s a fact. At home, I often struggled to get them breakfasted and out the door of a morning. ...

21.04.2024 10

Herald Scotland

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Rowling's tweets on trans issue feel gratuitously cruel and are their own social ill

ON THE day the Hate Crime legislation came into force, I was on Ben A’an. It was Easter Monday, so it was busier than usual, the steep paths to the...

07.04.2024 10

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Dani Garavelli

'I've got admiration for Davina McCall but I didn't want to be a Menopause crusader'

Despite being open by nature, and frequently plundering my own life for copy, I have never written about my experiences of the menopause. The reasons...

11.03.2024 20

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It's finally time for me to speak candidly about my menopause

DESPITE being open by nature, and frequently plundering my own life for copy, I have never written about my experiences of the menopause. The reasons...

10.03.2024 9

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Dani Garavelli

Ceasefire vote chaos and Tory machinations fan the flames of the Far Right

FOR a decision allegedly taken to protect MPs, last week’s tampering with Westminster protocol hasn’t half enabled racist rhetoric and inflamed an...

25.02.2024 6

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SNP may have been done over, but Flynn’s ‘victim’ status claim was crass

FOR a decision allegedly taken to protect MPs, last week’s tampering with Westminster protocol hasn’t half enabled racist rhetoric and inflamed an...

25.02.2024 8

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Dani Garavelli

If weak Starmer wins big, it's only because these Tories are utterly unelectable

By Dani Garavelli WITH the UK helter-skeltering towards oblivion, what voters crave is a route map out of the mess we’re in: someone - ANYONE -...

11.02.2024 30

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Of course Nicola Sturgeon cried at the Covid inquiry – her fatal flaws have been exposed

When Nicola Sturgeon broke down at the UK Covid inquiry she was accused of shedding crocodile tears. They looked real enough to me, induced by having...

01.02.2024 10

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How on Earth did Scottish Post Office staff end up in court without corroboration?

THERE is no end to the questions raised by the Post Office scandal which, after 20-odd years, is finally getting the attention it deserves. Some of...

14.01.2024 3

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Let's all raise a glass to 2024, the year that will finally see the end of Tory rule

ONE of the most notable characteristics of 14 years of Tory rule is that the closer we come to breaking the seal on a brand new calendar, the more...

31.12.2023 9

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Magic of Christmas has been completely lost in the pursuit of profit at George Square

By Dani Garavelli EVERY time I walk from Glasgow Central to Glasgow Queen Street during the festive season, I experience the same weird emotional...

17.12.2023 8

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Dani Garavelli

Broken promises pollute the air from the UAE to Glasgow

They set off for COP28 - David Cameron, Rishi Sunak and King Charles - in a squadron of private jets. Picture them, high on moral purpose, spreading...

03.12.2023 7

Herald Scotland

Dani Garavelli

Michael Matheson undermined Holyrood and humiliated those he loves the most

MICHAEL Matheson’s iPad scandal is discombobulating precisely because it’s so relatable. Very few of us can imagine private donors stepping in to...

19.11.2023 20

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Dani Garavelli: My plea to politicians at Covid inquiry: show some humility

SO FAR the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has been like watching a weird TV chimera: part Charlie Brooker-style dystopia where a virus has been invented with the...

05.11.2023 6

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Dani Garavelli

Dani Garavelli: We will all pay a huge price for Yousaf council tax freeze bombshell

AFTER a lacklustre start to his leadership, Humza Yousaf knew he needed to produce a rabbit from his hat at SNP conference; to come up with a...

22.10.2023 20

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Dani Garavelli: Voters are done with politicians who talk big and act small

SO, the results are in and the corpse of the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election is being dissected like a frog in a biology class. The...

08.10.2023 10

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Dani Garavelli

Dani Garavelli: Rishi Sunak's Net Zero culture war while the world burns

LOOK at the forests burning. Look at the river beds cracking. Look at the river banks bursting. Look at the sea levels rising. Look at the jellyfish...

24.09.2023 5

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Dani Garavelli

Scotland is now free to defy the Tories’ drugs policy. This could transform the whole UK

The decision by Scotland’s Lord Advocate to greenlight the trial of a safer drug consumption room in Glasgow is a landmark victory for campaigners,...

14.09.2023 90

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Dani Garavelli

Ugly truth of the beautiful game may have gifted women a watershed moment

ON May 28, 2019, I sat in in a record crowd of 18,555 Saltire-waving fans watching Scotland’s women’s team take on Jamaica in a pre-Euros friendly...

10.09.2023 5

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Dani Garavelli

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