Being surrounded by people in floods of tears doesn’t suggest an enjoyable evening. On this occasion, it was in response to a deeply moving film, When Mom is Gone, at…
‘The Death of the Fronsac’ by Neal Ascherson (Head of Zeus) I Neal Ascherson’s ambitions have been close to those of William Boyd’s fictional movieman John James Todd in ‘The…
Not liking the water is one thing. Poisoning the well for everyone else is quite another. This seems to be the UK Government’s approach post-Brexit to the Erasmus programme, which…
Christmas simply wouldn’t be Christmas without them. They light up our homes and bring so much joy to everyone. The trouble is that, within a few weeks or months, the…
The best tools for predicting the location of the next medical breakthrough are a blindfold, a few pins and a map. Plenty of innovations do emanate from elite hospitals and…
A top-secret mission in Scotland 400 years ago to prevent the assassination of King James isn’t what you would readily associate with the downfall of Boris Johnson. But that incident…
I received my electricity bill for our garage this week. Well, in reality, it is a glorified storage space â a place where any and all junk is offloaded, as…
Well, just about the end of September and there’s a chill in the air. It feels like summer, excellent though it was, is now a very distant memory. October welcomes…
If one measure of a successful art installation is the degree to which it elicits a response, then Cat Madden’s Mind-Wandering Corridor is a triumph. Rather than something created by…
A few years ago, ScotRail ran a very successful advert, one which some might even consider controversial. As I recall, the strapline was ‘Morningside â Kelvinside’. It presented a neat…