Category: Culture

Marina and her sister A fatal accident inquiry has limited powers. It is not a criminal trial. It is there to establish the facts of death. In the light of…

KENNETH ROY on the reality of life in Greenock prison – where the Lockerbie ‘bomber’ helps illiterate Scots Why Megrahi will be missed Thursday If Megrahi is released within the…

Obstruction of justice? Early Thursday morning Right to the end, the case of the so-called Lockerbie bomber is a scandalous mess. Even his probable imminent release is being bungled. Instead…

By James Dull and Flora Weem Poor little Britain – why does everybody hate us? It has been confirmed by Sir Terence Wogan that he and the Eurovision Song Contest…

Scottish Review Issue 97 Tuesday 28 April 2009 THE PRESENT TENSE Where we are and how we got here I. Give me a missile crisis any day Kenneth Roy [click…

Islay’s Winter Journey Part III Islay McLeod concludes her photo odyssey through Galloway. It’s Sunday morning All photographs Copyright Institute of Contemporary Scotland, 2009 05.03.09 The Weekend Review No. 082…

Blind bidding Barbara Millar’s Sketchbook A visit to the auction house 05.03.09 The Weekend Review No. 082 LOSS AND IDEALISM THE HOLE IN MY LIFE Dunblane parent Mick North on…

My monstrous carbuncle Eyesores and other attractions V Mick North 19.02.09 THE CRYING GAME I. Kenneth Roy: Not a dry eye in the house [click here] II. Gordon MacGregor: End…

     Dunnett immortalised this adventure in 1950 when he published ‘Quest by Canoe’, reprinted with the title ‘Too Late in the Year’ (the warning the boys were given when they…

Islay McLeod’s Gazetteer of Scotland H Harthill (North Lanarkshire) I J All photographs Copyright Institute of Contemporary Scotland, 2008