Being ‘Gaelic-critical’ is a bit like being ‘gender-critical’. You can fully support the Gaelic language’s right to exist, develop and flourish but still be uncomfortable when it is weaponised to…
‘The King sits in Dunfermline toun drinkin the blood red wine’ and toasting its new city status… Dunfermline is to become Scotland’s eighth city after being granted it as part…
I am writing this in my local internet cafe, or home, as I prefer to call it. The 21st century is often referred to as the digital age. Former ways…
Richard Kerley chaired a committee in 2000 set up by the Labour-run Scottish Executive to report on ‘renewing local democracy’. The resulting report and recommendations allowed the Scottish Executive to…
Last week, the House of Commons held a moving debate to mark five years since the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox. Jo was elected to represent the parliamentary constituency…
With the left-wing candidate, Pedro Castillo, poised to win the presidential election in Peru, I found myself arguing over the significance of this with a young left-wing Labour Party organiser…
Loads of people have used social media to post their verdicts on the two televised leaders’ debates. Some may have actually watched them. The Daily Record online poll called both…
If you were at a Burns supper this year, it was almost certainly online. I first came across Robert Burns at primary school when I was awarded the Burns Federation…
We are all thinking about how best to have a safe Christmas. Here in Ayrshire, my plan is a virtual dinner for the ghosts of Christmas past – famous people…
A group of Liverpool fans made the pilgrimage from Merseyside to East Ayrshire last September for the dedication of the renewed Bill Shankly memorial at Glenbuck, birthplace of the former…