The Scottish historian who faces ‘hatred, envy and jealousy’ – and is not above the occasional howler The Midgie and Bob Smith THE VANISHING SWALLOWS ENVIRONMENT: Climate change is a subject…
He was certainly no saint. But behind the demonic caricature of him to be found in the right-wing press and media, there was a good man. A very good man….
The Holyrood tech conference lights dimmed as keynote speaker Edward P Gibson took to the podium. The former FBI senior special agent and head of Microsoft UK, who I had…
A clue from pre-birth As a medical student I remember chuckling at our professor of pathology, who had a habit of putting his spectacles on the desk, going to draw…
My experience of the House of Lords is small. I have over the years known a few members, and some have made important contributions to legislation on health, legal, ethical,…
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…
Donne, I suppose, was such another Who found no substitute for sense, To seize and clutch and penetrate; Expert beyond experience… T S Eliot, in ‘Whispers of immortality’, paid tribute…
Sanders and Wood have produced an outstanding and judicious book on a topic fraught with difficulties. There is evident sympathy with the ordinary soldier as he adapted to a testing…
It’s a long time now since I was teased with the old nursery rhyme about what little boys are made of and, to be honest, I quite liked slugs and…
Younger Scots seem to love TikTok. They appear unfazed by a video-sharing social networking site overtly intrusive, to put it mildly, involving online behaviour that is increasingly raising privacy and…