Dani Garavelli

Glasgow

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Freelance journalist and writer. Bylines @heraldscotland, @guardian, @lrb, @bigissue et al. Waiting for the Van/The Witches’ Pardon/Prosecuting Polmont @BBCR4.

Articles

More fool the Scottish politicians who took the bait of Kneecap's provocations

1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Dani Garavelli

Far easier to call on festivals to boycott a loose-lipped rap band than to call on Trump to reinstate sanctions against violent settlers in the illegally occupied West Bank, says Dani Garavelli (Image: .) SPOT the difference.
The show must go on: The fight to save the last of the Scottish fairs

3 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Dani Garavelli

All the fun of the fair: Chance Hanley, Robert Miller, Philip Paris, Kevin Carter, Raynor Codona, Scott Nutter, Harry Paris Sr, Renae Paris and Harry Paris Jr. (Image: Gordon Terris/The Herald) “There’s no atmosphere like you get on the Whitesands when the Dumfries spring fair opens,” says Geraldine Reid, her eyes bright as toffee apples. “The music strikes up, and the generator strikes up, and the children look round in amazement.
Transgender ruling may resolve the law but it can’t make society whole again

3 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Dani Garavelli

The Supreme Court ruled in favour of For Women Scotland on the legal definition of a woman (Image: PA) WHEN I saw the women raising their champagne glasses after their Supreme Court victory, I felt that same queasy way I always feel at the end of long legal cases when people shout and cheer and toast the delivery of what they hold to be justice.
Broken legacy: Glasgow is failing to protect its stained glass. Can it be saved?

3 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Dani Garavelli

Stained glass repairer Richard Welsh at work in Glasgow's Dumbreck Picture: Gordon Terris (Image: Gordon Terris) IN the hallway of a Glasgow southside villa, Richard Welsh radiates a transcendent glow. A stained glass artist, he has come to fix the window that crowns the landing like a cathedral triptych. In the centre, a woman with a river of golden hair holds a butterfly to her face. To her right and left lie roses, swirling leaves and geometric patterns.
At the Whisky Bond

1 month ago | lrb.co.uk | Dani Garavelli

One afternoon last year I walked up a steep incline from Applecross Basin on the Forth and Clyde Canal, stopped under the second pylon I came to and looked out over the monochrome skyscape. I had been told that this was the spot where Duncan Thaw, the protagonist of Books One and Two of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark, utters his most famous lines.
US favouring those guilty of Gaza genocide over ones who call it out is outrageous

1 month ago | heraldscotland.com | Dani Garavelli

JD Vance recently castigated Europe, citing abortion buffer zones as an attack on ‘the basic liberties of religious Britons’. Graphic: Derek McArthur ON Monday night, I switched on BBC News at Ten to find out more about a horrific incident I’d seen fleeting headlines on earlier in the day. It was a report, from the UN, that 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers had been killed “one by one” by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza.
Reform is ending Scotland’s indyref era

1 month ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Dani Garavelli

“Storm clouds are gathering.” So warned Scotland’s first minister John Swinney as he called for a coordinated cross-party resistance—a Scottish cordon sanitaire, if you like—against the far right and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party in the run-up to next year’s Holyrood election. There are those who think he had a cheek. In its 18 years in power, the SNP has hardly been a unifying force.
'A missed opportunity': Did the shift from Polmont detention go far enough?

1 month ago | heraldscotland.com | Dani Garavelli

William Lindsay and Katie Allan took their own lives (Image: Derek McArthur) When the final children were moved from Polmont Young Offenders Institution last August, those who worked in the youth justice system breathed a sigh of relief. It had long been acknowledged that the jail was no place for under-18s who - regardless of their offences - would be safer, and more likely to be rehabilitated, in one of the county’s four secure units.
Disturbing TV hit Adolescence exposes a chasm that has opened up between generations

1 month ago | heraldscotland.com | Dani Garavelli

An image from Adolescence on Netflix (Image: Netflix) WHAT does it take, these days, to start a national conversation? The answer would appear to be a bingeable TV or Netflix drama that “touches the heart strings” while “pulling no punches”. First, we had ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which forced a decades-long scandal into the public eye (and resulted in new legislation to exonerate those who had been wrongly convicted).
Blacklisted and imprisoned: The Scots suffragette who could finally be honoured

1 month ago | heraldscotland.com | Dani Garavelli

Janet Jenny McCallum in Holloway Prison uniform. Right: rare medal. (Image: On Fife) Fife mill worker and trade union activist, Janet McCallum, was jailed for scaling a statue of Richard the Lionheart during a Votes for Women storming of Westminster in 1908. Yet, like most working class suffragettes, her contribution has gone under-acknowledged.