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Doris A Wright set the standard for new year…
Doris A Wright set the standard for new year resolutions. It was she who wrote the famous lines: the future lies before you like a field of fallen snow, take…
Doris A Wright set the standard for new year resolutions. It was she who wrote the famous lines: the future lies before you like a field of fallen snow, take…
In the scrupulously moral maze of UK business, there is a £4bn area of various shades of grey. Never to be confused with bribery, one is referring to the world of…
Phone calls from others are an increasingly irritating source of interruptions, unlike the phone calls that I make. What follows is a collection of advice assembled from my experiences…
Strange though it feels to commit it to writing, I am beginning to suspect that our family dog may in fact be an assassin. Ostensibly a wee curly black and…
It was very interesting to read Tam Dalyell’s journal entry for 6 May 1999, and his concerns of that day. Like many others in the early part of 1999 I…
Daisy and I were out walking last week, when we passed a group of revellers sitting at one of the capital’s growing number of pavement tables. One group in particular…
‘The last 40 years have seen a consistently catastrophic politics for the left all across the rich world’. That is Gerry Hassan’s damning generalisation; making the left almost as unsuccessful…
When Scotland voted in 1997 for devolution and the creation of a Scottish Parliament, the thought occurred that the law of unintended consequences was bound to follow. The Scots celebrated as…
Britain will never end, unless there is such catastrophic climate change that the sea floods through the Scottish/English border. Until that happens, itâs one island formed, amazingly, from two continental…
Andrew Hook is right that a reassessment of Hugh MacDiarmid is not only timely but underway. As Andrew notes, I was fortunate enough to live for two years in Brownsbank…