The Cafe
Like So Many on the Left in Scotland
Like so many on the left in Scotland, Gerry Hassan (23 March) looks back to the golden era of social democracy after 1945. Absent from his article is any analysis…
Like so many on the left in Scotland, Gerry Hassan (23 March) looks back to the golden era of social democracy after 1945. Absent from his article is any analysis…
Last week, my wife Karen and I embarked on our first foreign holiday for what seems like an eternity, though in reality is just over three years. Naturally, we were…
A rugby triumph… And no, I don’t mean France’s first grand slam triumph in the Six Nations competition since 2012. Well-deserved as France’s win was, much more remarkable was Italy’s…
As the last fireworks faded in the sky above Buckingham Palace and the streets around it rocked and rolled with Queen lovers, one watched with mixed emotions. After two years of…
One of the indicators that you are getting older is being able to travel across the length and breadth of Scotland free by bus, but not by train, even though…
I was on a night out last week at a location which, though outside the city centre, was very well attended. Unfamiliar as I am to the concept, this was…
Easter is coming and it is time for eggs. Our street app’s latest saga has nothing to do with developers destroying the corner shop or getting everyone to cough up…
In the dim and distant past, I introduced the douce readers of The Scotsman to jazz. Or at least that is what I conned the editor into believing. In fact, I had…
Television advertisers know their old folks market hence all those ads for mattresses which have miracle springs that adjust to the shape of your body, the ones about how to…
This week, I am experiencing a dilemma. As a long-term left-leaning person, I have continually over the years expressed my deeply held opposition to private healthcare. As I age, I…