Listening to music with my mother, doing my homework, reporting from India: it has always been there, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

I remember chilly trips to the beach in Fife, and my first visit to the Mediterranean. The association of heat with pleasure is hard to shake, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

As we reach Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee, my mind is drawn to another ageing monarch’s pomp and ceremony, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

The sale of a Clyde estate might once have been seen as making a positive case for globalisation. But it’s no longer so simple, says journalist Ian Jack

The MP’s grandfather worked as a dairyman and lorry driver, but this does not fit his carefully cultivated public image, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

In the BBC TV series, treasured objects are restored to their former glory. It’s a vision of how life ought to be, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

Brochures used to tell passengers what they could see through the window. Now we sit and stare at our screens, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

The takeover of the football club has energised its fans. Yet the city of coal may find it hard to adjust to life with oil billionaires, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

Despite all the analogies for this possibly terminal emergency, it is unlike anything that has come before, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

The glossy optimism of the location is a sleight of hand. Old Glasgow has been left to decay, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

Perhaps the visitors who crush into Skye might turn left at Glasgow next time, towards this lost resort, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

Instead of looking south, campaigners are looking north, to the egalitarian models of small Nordic nations, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack