The last time I wrote regularly for a Sunday newspaper was more than four decades ago. That paper, The Sunday Standard, was launched on April 27, 1981, by Outram, an arm of Lonrho, and then publisher of the long-established Glasgow Herald and Evening Times. As The New York Times noted on launch day, It was the first new Sunday paper to hit Scottish news-stands in 60 years.
That first weekly edition sold a remarkable 175,000 copies.
I was a last-minute addition to the Standard payroll. Editor Charlie Wilson, who went on to edit The Times and sadly died last August, had assembled a stellar cast of leading print journalists.
But in a Scotland that still boasted a diverse economy covering everything from manufacturing to finance,
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