Latest articles from Michael Gray

Michael Gray: We once had a radical press. When will we see its likes again?

ONE of our greatest tragedies is that we cannot know the information that is denied to us. We call the antidote to this "epiphanies" – moments of clarity and realisation of deep truths. My media epiphany was reading Power and Responsibility, a textbook by Professor James Curran. It’s a powerful story I’ve since retold whenever the opportunity arises. Since this is my last column in The National, at least for a while, I feel incumbent to share it with you now.

Michael Gray: In tune with Scotland ... my grandpa’s musical gift

FOR 70 years, the entirety of his working life, Bill has tuned pianos across Scotland, and the hundreds of miles of land and sea that make up Argyll. Across those decades, on late-night ferries and across long, bumpy roads, he has brought the sound of music to household instruments on islands and the mainland.