THESE TIMES, THIS PLACE
Muriel Gray

Among the many things a healthy person needs is a conscience, that internal voice which lets us know when we are doing wrong.  We ignore it at our peril.  A society is just the same.  It’s all too easy for societies to make mistakes, and worse, repeat those mistakes over and over. 

Ever since 1999 Muriel Gray has been a sort of conscience for Scotland.  Her weekly column in the Sunday Herald is widely read.   People look to it because Muriel’s views often reflect their own thinking.  Very often they find that her writing says exactly what they would have said themselves if only they could have found the words. 

In the columns included in this book, taken from the Sunday Herald between November 2003 to December 2004, she looks at such subjects as maternity pay, public transport, gap year students, and social class.  These are real issues for our time and place and Muriel brings clear thinking and sharp wit to all of them. 

Muriel Gray is very much a woman of our time and place.  She has been in the public eye as a TV presenter since she first presented The Tube on Channel 4 in 1982.  But she is also well known now as a writer of non-fiction and horror novels.  She has many talents, and the articles in this collection demonstrate best of all her clear no-nonsense thinking about matters which are important to us all. 

RRP: £5.95
ISBN: 0-9546333-7-7

PROVOCOCATIVE OPINION FROM MURIEL GRAY’S HERALD COLUMN. 

Level: 2
SMOG: 13-14

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