How Brexit has kept sub-editors working around the clock

The next ‘meaningful vote’ in the Commons is set for 13 February. You can bet sub-editors will be working in offices, and from home, until the small hours of Valentine's Day

When I started out as a cub reporter for my local newspaper in the southside of Glasgow, I had no way of anticipating that all these years later I would be sharing a menage a trois with the prime minister and the leader of the opposition. Ahem, no this isn’t a love letter. Let me explain...

During extreme news cycles (and Brexit is nothing if not extreme), reporters, picture editors, sub-editors (that’s me!) – basically anyone in the media who contributes to covering current affairs – is expected to work to the rhythm of those events.

There is no such thing as a nine-to-five job in journalism.