Good show, Russell.
For me, the Herald s entire week focusing on domestic violence was soured by two articles that opened the series: Tony Veitch s piece, and Kerry McIvor s piece where she more-or-less said, Why don t they just leave? There was some really good work later in the week, but I found it hard to give it much weight, given those opening pieces.
The other thing that I thought could have been very useful was some serious statistical work, to examine the truth of the she does it too claim. It would take someone sitting down with the various articles and research reports on domestic violence, and analysing them, in a metastudy, and then reporting on it for a general readership, not just academics and people working in the area. But perhaps the Herald doesn t have the resources to do this. Even so, as one of the guests on your show said, it s a line that s trotted out again and again, to excuse domestic violence, and it would be very helpful to have some testing of t
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FROM 1931 to 1934, the mammoth shape of Hull Number 534, the unnamed Cunard ocean-liner that was to have been the salvation of the River Clyde, loomed unfinished in the stocks over the John Brown Engineering Works in Clydebank. Construction was suspended on 10 December 1931, plunging thousands into unemployment and poverty in the weeks before Christmas. Looking over Dumbarton Road from the tenements opposite, the rust-red hull of the unfinished ship must have resembled the skeleton of some extinct behemoth, and workers – from the riveters and caulkers of the black squads to the engineers, fitters and foremen – must have feared that extinction too would be the ultimate fate of their industry.
What are you most looking forward to in 2021?
No, don’t answer that. We know. It’s fantastic new crime novels, isn’t it?
Well, you’ve come to the right place. 2020 has been a tough year, and many countries will begin 2021 with COVID lockdowns still in place, but if you’re a keen reader at least you’ll have the chance to discover some wonderful new crime novels. To give you a few ideas, we’ve assembled our ‘most wanted’ list for 2021 and it includes some very exciting books. There are debuts, novels from Japan, new takes on espionage, historical crime and more. Plus… are you ready for the return of Laidlaw?
ONCE you are reminded of the late William McIlvanney, it’s hard not to start missing him, his writing, his coolness. We had news this week of Ian Rankin being entrusted to work up some of Willie’s literary notes, found in his papers. These are sketches towards an early 1970s prequel for his ground-breaking crime novel, Laidlaw, which Rankin – an avowed McIlvanney devotee – has turned into a fully realised work. “I would find myself waking up in the middle of the night with a line that felt like a Willie line and I would scribble it down,” says Rankin. As I’ve been sampling McIlvanney’s corpus in the last few days (“Corpus! Just don’t make a corpse of me in the process,” I can imagine him snapping), this seems a particularly appropriate method.
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