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.
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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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