I’ll be honest — when I heard BBC ALBA was launching a quiz show, my expectations were modest. Gaelic language programming has a reputation (unfair, but persistent) for being worthy…
In last Sunday’s London Marathon, one runner took pity on another and helped him over the line. A repeat performance in the general election? Dream on.. . Is Trump going…
I still rub my eyes in disbelief when I read the numbers of British casualties on 1 July 1916 – the opening day of the long planned Battle of the…
Some folk couldn’t even wait to hear the result of the referendum before they started celebrating. I went to the local supermarket yesterday just after I voted and there was…
If you’ve ever wondered how to say ‘It wisnae me’ in Spanish, you need wonder no longer. Between now and 26 June we will hear a lot of Spanish politicians…
Federico Garcia Lorca is best known in the English-speaking world as the author of plays where characters struggle to express sexual love in a repressive atmosphere; an atmosphere which is…
The complexity of the current refugee crisis is enormous; while wars are raging in many parts of the Middle East, Asia and Africa it is impossible to predict what the…
I used to be a Christian. I now call myself a humanist but I grew up in a conventional Church of Scotland family; we went to our local church in…
On 1 March I cheered with joy as a result of a decision made by the House of Lords about Brexit. Normally, I see the Lords as an absurd institution….
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot (Victorian journalist). The…