Robert Mcneil

THIS week’s Icon inadvertently provided an important historic document of Glasgow life – its humour, culture and streets – in the 1980s, that…

THIS week’s Icon inadvertently provided an important historic document of Glasgow life – its humour, culture and streets – in the 1980s, that low decade.

LIKE many young persons, this week’s Icon got into the music business to “get laid”, something that decent Herald on Sunday readers will find…

Each week, the self-righteous and highly judgmental journalist Rab McNeil puts one of the country's weel-kent creations, names or faces under close…

WEARING leather tabards that pre-dated Braveheart, The Corries were best known for Flower of Scotland, the country’s unofficial national anthem…

I’VE a terrible confession to make about the actor Gordon Jackson. I encountered him once and recall the incident with shame.

‘Bone-breaker’ came back from the dead to catch fish

JINGS. Better tread carefully with this week's Icon. For she is, as the modern saying goes, likely to go off on one. This is a woman of strong…

Much loved commentator enjoyed a good stramash

THIS week’s Icon was the “most successful author on the planet” – and it all started with a short story for The Glasgow Herald.