As planners seek to reinvent city centres to make them more people-friendly, is the motoring media too close to the car industry to envisage a future with fewer cars?
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A hard habit to break
For my MA in International Journalism for Media Professionals I produced a radio package exploring the practical and psychological ties that bind us to our cars. Listen to it here …
The Audi Driver years
My longest gig as an automotive journalist was with Audi Driver. For reasons best known to them, they published nearly 200 of my columns from 2001 until 2019.
Irresponsible car fun from the noughties
It seems childish and politically incorrect these days – but it sure was fun and I would do it again in a heartbeat … don’t judge me!!!
Life as a Bugatti Customer
Can you travel to Lisbon on short notice and spend five days covering the customer drive event for the new Bugatti Chiron? Hmmmm … let me check my diary.
welcome to the inside strathearn podcast
In the very first episode of the Inside Strathearn podcast, I talk kindness at a care home and pitch Mamma Mia against Bob Dylan, all in the name of the Strath’s new community radio station.
Elaine Catton 