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...
Learning on the job: why the economy needs universities to get out into the workplace
March 28, 2019
Politics is immature and unpalatable: could grown-up Lib Dems be the missing ingredient?
March 27, 2019
The road away from Christchurch-style hatred starts with lots of small conversations
March 26, 2019
Flight risk: what a career in the RAF teaches me about the Boeing crisis
March 26, 2019
Smacking ban: why it really might hurt them more than it hurts us
March 25, 2019
Domestic violence will only be tackled if everyone – not least our faith communities – talks about it openly
March 25, 2019
Bishop Anne Dyer: We can all be much more dementia-friendly
March 22, 2019
Aghast at the furious: angry venting may help our blood pressure but it’s ruining society
March 22, 2019
Spending a penny is not enough: walkers should linger longer in the places they visit
March 22, 2019
End of the peer show: why it’s time the House of Lords was properly reformed (or better still abolished)
March 19, 2019
Immune to reason? How can we stop ill-informed anti-jab parents putting all our children in grave danger
March 19, 2019
Hospitality is hard work: are millennials too lazy to plug the workforce gaps?
March 11, 2019
Please no-one sack Gavin Williamson: the Secretary of State for Slapstick is the perfect tonic for these dark days
March 8, 2019
Power to the people – but what about the money? Why we should be angry about energy
March 5, 2019
Ariel attacks: why I’m ignoring calls to ditch “sexist” Disney classics
March 5, 2019
Bags of trouble: why are the biggest firms so bad at getting the small things right?
March 4, 2019
You can put your mind at ease: the “Bish” is a friend of our armed forces
March 1, 2019
Full STEAM ahead: the fourth industrial revolution will be fuelled by creativity
February 28, 2019
The birth of new hope? Why Tory MPs’ paternity leave plans may signal the start of a brighter party future
February 27, 2019
Identifying problems: working out what matters in our broken politics
February 26, 2019
Blowing hot and cold: it is time we had a clearer policy in favour of ‘majestic’ wind farms
February 26, 2019
The devil in the detail: why the Pope must show his abuse summit is more than a PR exercise
February 25, 2019
Forgotten local hero: the scientist spy who bamboozled the Nazis to help win the war
February 25, 2019
Shamima Begum is a British teenager – she is our problem and we need to solve it
February 22, 2019