Bill Paterson as Clement Attlee in ‘Into The Storm’ I’m not given much to conspiracy theories but I know a lot of people who are. Particularly those who haunt the…
Bill Paterson as McChuckemup, the entrepreneur in the ‘The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black Black Oil’ Nearly a year ago I shared my thoughts with SR readers about my…
Following a recent BBC Radio 4 programme on the 50th anniversary of The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil , Bill Paterson responds with an inside story of…
Podcast below, narrated by the author, actor Bill Paterson: The lockdown, current obsessions and a significant birthday brought some memories bubbling to the surface. Fifty years ago, in 1970, the…
It is not necessary to confiscate land; it is only necessary to confiscate rent – Henry George (American economist and writer) The one asset that Scotland knows well about is…
Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain – Friedrich Nietzsche Boris Johnson may not be the brightest bulb, but he is not stupid; more irresponsible than stupid as his…
In all the long history of Humanity, no event has been as catastrophic as the Black Death. No tidal wave, no storm, no earthquake, no volcanic eruption, no great fire…
Though you may drive nature away with a pitchfork, she always returns – Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, poet 65 BC to 8 BC) And Nature (interestingly Horace considered Nature a…
Bill Paterson is an actor and commentator As Health Secretary Matt Hancock flannelled his way through last Thursday’s Question Time on his preparations for possible massive self-isolation in the coming…
The UK has not, and never has been, a political democracy – Gerry Hassan Gerry Hassan is correct: Britain is not a full political democracy even though, perhaps surprisingly, it…