Joe is assistant editor of the Press and Journal and Evening Express and particularly enjoys his responsibility for fostering and maintaining good relations with readers. He cut his teeth as a news journalist on a busy weekly newspaper in London before starting a two-decade spell reporting on politics, first in town halls and then for 16 years with the Press Association at Westminster, latterly as chief political correspondent. A keen hiker despite being registered blind, he moved to the north-east in 2016 to join Aberdeen Journals and has taken full advantage of having the coast and the Cairngorms on his doorstep. He's not as funny as he thinks he is, so bear with him...
Chris Deerin: It’s big, but is it clever? Why you need not be afraid of the literary leviathan
July 23, 2019
Miles Mack: Life-changing services for rural areas need not be such a remote possibility
July 19, 2019
Catherine Deveney: We have bequeathed young people plenty to fear – but there are many brave faces among them
July 19, 2019
Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya: Time to remove the north-east’s light from under a bushel and blind the world with our scientific brilliance
July 18, 2019
Iain Maciver: I’m as gutted as a celebrity TV haddock that the chips are down at BBC Scotland
July 17, 2019
James Millar: Minorities retort – why fans of Boris will have to answer for his populist shtick
July 17, 2019
Hamish MacDonald: Infected or affected, all the victims of our national blood scandal are owed closure
July 16, 2019
James Johnston: I am becoming a grumpy old man – but it’s not all my fault
July 16, 2019
Susan Brown: Drivers who don’t indicate send me hurtling down an emotional dead end
July 15, 2019
David Knight: We love to hate Nick Kyrgios because deep down we all want to be pantomime villains too
July 15, 2019
Catherine Deveney: This hideous hierarchy of human value and power must be torn apart and recast
July 12, 2019
Ben Dolphin: Sound awake – nature’s noises are one in the eye for a sleepless night
July 12, 2019
Anne Dyer: At risk of being overtaken by life? Strange it seems, the slow lane is the place to be
July 11, 2019
Campbell Gunn: Growing the post-Brexit economy – in my allotment
July 9, 2019
Lindsay Razaq: The generation gain – why granny-care tax breaks could be a winner for old and young
July 9, 2019
Eleanor Bradford: Fat chance – the battle with obesity is being lost to convenience and greed
July 8, 2019
David Knight: Something-for-nothing millennials need to grow up – and fast
July 8, 2019
Jim Hunter: Without cheaper Highland homes, youngsters’ dreams of staying put are for the birds
July 5, 2019
Catherine Deveney: Determination is a winning ticket in the lottery of life
July 5, 2019
Heather Keyes: No child’s play – ending the stigma of male nursery workers is hard work, but worth it
July 4, 2019
James Millar: Fielding an expenses fiddler candidate is a new low for the Tories – and for democracy
July 3, 2019
Derek Tucker: No surprise some charities are short of volunteers when they are so rubbish at recruiting
July 2, 2019
Lindsay Razaq: Pregnant women are being let down with a bump – a fake one
July 2, 2019
Len Ironside: Our NHS is creaking – so why are we wasting millions doling out free paracetamol on prescription
July 1, 2019