Dani Garavelli
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Columnist at The Herald (Scotland)
Freelance journalist and writer. Bylines @heraldscotland, @guardian, @lrb, @bigissue et al. Waiting for the Van/The Witches’ Pardon/Prosecuting Polmont @BBCR4.
Articles
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1 week ago |
lrb.co.uk | Dani Garavelli
On a sunny afternoon last month Ryan arrived at the Thistle, a one-storey pebbledash building in the east end of Glasgow. The Thistle is the UK’s first Safer Drug Consumption Facility (SDCF). Ryan is a regular there.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Dani Garavelli
Irvine was where Sturgeon grew up. She witnessed its degeneration, and she came to believe that only the SNP and independence could restore the country’s position as a manufacturing powerhouse. This post-industrial decline turned much of central Scotland into the equivalent of the US rust belt: an urban fallout zone, blighted by generations-deep unemployment and heroin, which seeped into the cracks created by economic upheaval.
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3 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Dani Garavelli
It’s the same impulse that prompts people to take to the streets with Molotov cocktails or creep out of their beds in the dead of the night and fell a centuries-old sycamore. They are acts born of frustration and battered self-esteem, and they provide a temporary release. But then you wake up and see that nothing has changed. Except now the last community centre on your estate has all its windows panned in, and there’s a vast emptiness where once there stood a tree.
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1 month ago |
heraldscotland.com | Dani Garavelli
Jack McKenzie (Image: Scottish Prison Service) A sheriff has ruled the suicide of a 20-year-old in Polmont Young Offenders’ Institution could have been prevented if the cell toilet door from which he hanged himself had been removed or modified. Jack McKenzie had been on remand for seven months when he killed himself on the morning of September 3, 2021.
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1 month ago |
heraldscotland.com | Dani Garavelli
Either the Prime Minister deployed it wilfully — a little hate grenade tossed into our already volatile political landscape — or he was ignorant of its historical antecedents. Neither of these possibilities is reassuring. And yet, when I listened to him, it wasn’t the words “Rivers of Blood” that coursed through my mind; it was: “These are our Neighbours”.
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