Two big and inter-related issues have attracted the attention of the media this month – race and migration. The media reported accusations of racial discrimination in Yorkshire County Cricket Club…
17 August 2022 Home Become a Friend In a major breakthrough, electric vehicle (EV) drivers using ferries to the Northern Isles of Scotland may soon be able to charge their…
May 2015 Home Subscribe Free Become a Friend I The war against Hitler cost somewhere between 60 and 80 million lives, most of them civilian. This exceeded the human cost…
The glorious sunny weather in July must have moved many of us into a mood of optimism, easier to achieve by concentrating on sport or music and trying to ignore…
In my last essay , I urged a stoical attitude to this pandemic, characterising most of us as phlegmatic. This adjective describes one of the four classical humours of mankind,…
I remember posters urging us to keep it under our hats and telling us that walls had ears; we all knew that there were German spies about, ready to do…
I have perhaps made too much already of the similarities of the present time of COVID-19 and the early stage of my life during and after the war, but the…
As the current wave of the pandemic in the UK wanes, a new one threatens. It is appropriate to reflect on where we are and what lessons we have learnt….
The Invisible Spirit, Kenneth Roy’s history of post-war Scotland, will be published soon. The pre-publication offer ended at midnight on Tuesday: one reader ordered two copies two minutes before the…
Ignorance or the lack of knowledge is something we all struggle with from our earliest days. As children, we ask questions and believe the answers. As we develop, we may…