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One of Scotland's finest: read 12 of Ian Bell's best columns

One of Scotland's finest: read 12 of Ian Bell's best columns

 
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Scotland's finest: read 11 of Ian Bell's best Herald columns
Scotland's finest: read 11 of Ian Bell's best Herald columns

Award-winning Herald and Sunday Herald columnist Ian Bell has died at the age of 59.

Nicola Sturgeon said Bell was one of Scotland's finest writers as she paid tribute to him on Twitter.

As a tribute, we have compiled a list of some of Ian's best columns for The Herald and Sunday Herald.

If you would like to pay tribute to Ian leave a comment below.

Heavy price paid for failing to meet climate change costs (Ian's last Herald column)

The dismantling of Hilary Benn's empty war rhetoric

Do the right thing, Prime Minister – don't bomb Syria

Bombing doesn't work. Show me IS crumbling in the face of Hellfire missiles and I might think again

The Great British Bake Off presents us with a kinder, better Britain. Pity it's a fiction

How Gordon Brown's welfare warning could play into SNP hands

If Scottish Labour wants to rise from the grave, it should think first about the Scotland Bill

An earthquake? An avalanche? The political world tilted on its axis

Independence is risky, but Union is even scarier

One year on: Ian Bell on how the referendum changed us

Indyref: one year on, the numbers still don't add up

William McIlvanney wrote us, and every word he committed to the page will stand

 

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