The reviews of 2018 remember a year when Russian agents unleashed the novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, the nation watched the royal wedding and the World Cup, the Syrian civil…
I hadn’t seen John for almost 40 years. He had made a new life for himself in Australia but was back in the UK for a few weeks to catch…
There’s a bit of a debate going on around whether politics should be so prominent at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. I have this fantasy of doing a stand-up comedy show…
The Spanish Election was meant to see the fragile coalition of Socialist PM Pedro Sanchez swept away and usher in a right-wing coalition government of The People’s Party (PP) and…
I have just read Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, by Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire (published by Vintage) and have concluded that reviewers have failed to…
As I stood stock still in the icy silence of the remembrance ceremony at the village War Memorial, very little seemed to make sense. ‘This is as close as it…
Shona and Luke had lived in Symington for almost two years now. Thistle Cottage in Main Street was their first home together. It had been in the ownership of generations…
Pub quiz stalwarts, House of Cards, had competed in the Leith quiz league every one of the last four years. The team was made up of Jamie Saxton, a modern…
It was late – Brexit late; People’s Vote late. There must be something I can do I thought. Then I remembered an email that had come in earlier that day…