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...
Finally on vinyl: an incurable introvert’s unlikely stumble towards musical stardom
December 14, 2018
Scrap tax breaks for the oil industry or wave goodbye to the planet – why we cannot wait to become zero-carbon
December 13, 2018
Solving the rural health crisis: do the answers lie in a 106-year-old report?
December 12, 2018
Mountain dues: why we should give thanks for the giants in our midst
December 11, 2018
Believing in Christmas: why the lure of the festive ‘fancy’ will never die
December 7, 2018
A better solution to homelessness is possible – together we can make it inevitable
December 6, 2018
Pranked MP: I was a fool – but a fool with a serious point to make about the scourge of drugs
December 6, 2018
Recall the midwife: why the nativity’s missing character is key to the true meaning of Christmas
December 4, 2018
Denial: why Brexit is delivering the very worst sort of political leadership
December 3, 2018
This is definitely the finest walk in Scotland (apart from all the others)
November 30, 2018
Christmas in November? Why re-learning patience is the gift we really need this year
November 29, 2018
Why am I even watching this? A newly-minted pensioner enjoys some guilt-free grumping
November 27, 2018
Dinner money for doughnuts: why letting pupils out for lunch break is a recipe for disaster
November 26, 2018
Farmed salmon: why we cannot afford it to become ‘the one that got away’
November 23, 2018
Women in politics: why must success still only come despite their gender?
November 23, 2018
No ifs, no butts: the only answer to smoking is a total ban
November 22, 2018
The biggest problem with Britain today? We do not pay enough tax
November 21, 2018
USA – in fact Earth – would be better run by robots
November 15, 2018
Britain 100 years after the Great War – any more a “fit country for heroes” than then?
November 14, 2018
Merging the Scottish fire services – have the doubters been proved wrong?
November 13, 2018
New society born, as life changed forever in 1914
November 12, 2018
The post-oil future is bright – so long as we find a bright spark to light the way
November 12, 2018
War was not the only mass killer that the world had to confront in 1918
November 12, 2018
Medley of sound lifts gloom as colour returns – for a few hours at least
November 11, 2018