

Robbie Armstrong
Robbie Armstrong is a writer, reporter and audio producer based in his home city of Glasgow.


Is this Glasgow’s — nay the world’s — most prolific curry critic?
Curry-Heute has reviewed over a thousand curries across the city — here are his favourites

Growing hope in Glasgow's most isolated community
A Blackhill charity is bouncing back from acts of vandalism stronger than ever

Interview with the paedophile hunter
Oliver Braid was a rising star in the art world. Then he packed it all in to become a vigilante.
Why is Mackintosh's only church flammable and unprotected?
Worrying parallels between Queen's Cross and Glasgow School of Art over ignored calls for a fire suppression system

The anatomy of a fall at Albert Cross
‘The fact that it was listed actually killed the building’

Neil almost lost everything. Now he’s showing tourists a hidden side of the city
From homelessness to walking tour guide

Can you sum up Glasgow in a dish and a drink?
A food-themed writer’s edition from Robbie

The haunted spectres of the city's aborted ring road
Glasgow's unfinished infrastructure is the source of myth, misinformation – and warning
Glasgow's pizzas: a highly subjective but absolutely definitive ranking
The city’s hits, misses and purgatorial pies

Jim MacNee's wife got sick. So he taught pigeons to play football
How ‘Match of the Doo’ became Glasgow’s top avian fixture

The great Garnethill graffiti war
Taggers say they're reclaiming walls. Locals say they're destroying a 47 year-old mural

Is it time to move on from Mackintosh?
We're going head to head in today's edition. Plus: a Victoria Park councillor mysteriously leaves the SNP.

Pews it or lose it: the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society is at war
A debate about church furniture has sparked a bitter conflict about who gets to protect the legacy of Glasgow’s greatest architect

A day doon the Clyde, meditations on social media and sandwich philosophy
A writer’s edition from Robbie