If one of my cats became acutely ill outside the normal working hours of our local veterinary practice, it would still be possible to get treatment. By phoning the usual…
I have a brain tumour. I haven’t thought about it in years, but recent press headlines surrounding the untimely death of socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson made me remember that it’s probably…
Just before Christmas, as San Sebastian prepared to relinquish its year as one of the two European Capitals of Culture (shared with Wroclaw in Poland), there was a silent demonstration…
The brief The competition was organised by the Scottish Review (SR) and sponsored by the Young Programme (YP) charity. It was open to pupils in Scottish schools who were between…
The impressive new exhibition, ‘A New Era: Scottish Modern Art 1900-1950,’ at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, highlights the most experimental Scottish art of the first half of…
There is a point in Mairi Campbell’s one-woman coming of age show ‘Pulse’ where in an attempt to convey inarticulable emotion she writhes on the ground speaking gibberish. As she…
Until a few days ago, it had been 26 years since a British MP was murdered in service. Thousands of people who never had the chance to meet Jo Cox,…
1969 was an important year for us as I moved my young family from Liverpool to West Virginia in the United States, where I had obtained a poorly paid but…
The fact is we are all migrants I wonder how you react to the latest tale of rescue of migrants from the Mediterranean Sea or the Indian Ocean? It must…
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