Category: Culture

Kenneth Roy’s article ( 14 November ) on punditry struck a chord. But ‘pundits’ inhabit the world their readers do, a world that now demands simplistic easy answers to complex…

This piece was first published in SR in 2011 My abiding childhood memory of the little towns of Ayrshire was the variable speeds at which my father drove through them….

ARTICLES Silenced by the police Bill Heaney George Square, Glasgow, 23 December 2014 Police Scotland have come in for a great deal of stick recently, so you may consider it…

Fly the flag, they used to say. And sing up! Nowadays there’s usually a health warning attached to that statement: Do so at your own risk of ending up in…

In January 2016, eight choristers assembled outside the Commons to sing a rather strained rendition of William Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’. Awkwardly mumbling the words behind them was the mastermind and Labour…

In September 1942 I travelled to Glasgow to begin my studies at Glasgow School of Art, the first and only known step for me to take in what I saw…

Inveramsay was Kenneth Roy’s inspiration for founding the Young Scotland Programme – a forum for debate and dialogue – in 2002. But he never dreamt that he would find out…

UPFRONT It takes two Sketch: Barbara Millar It was a dance of the dispossessed, the marginalised, the immigrant. Later on, it became the dance of defiance to the dictators. The…

OBSERVATION The railway clerk Barbara Millar Alan Law with his niece Margaret ‘I have often thought that youngsters seldom appreciate the true quality of their parents,’ the letter begins. ‘Your…

I went to see a new born baby last week – a little girl, dressed in a warm, pink, knitted jacket and matching hat. She looked adorable, with really tiny…