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…
Friday 1 February As a bad Catholic girl from Springburn I have always thought that purgatory is full of Glaswegians – most of them from Springburn. Then again I have…
As soon as I got off the bus in Victoria Road – I’d taken the first one that turned up at Union Street – I remembered this place. When I…
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…
I confess I had taken little note of Jo Cox before this frightful tragedy. That feels a great loss. The more I have seen of her in videos and in…
Last year’s winning group, International Young Scotland Programme * We are organising the second International Young Scotland Programme, a three-day course of debate and discussion, open to people between the…
June 2015 Home Subscribe Free Become a Friend In an upstairs room at Glasgow’s Riverside Museum, a group of people are sitting around computers, with books, papers and prints spread…
Photograph of South Uist by Islay McLeod Monday 10 July Visit my mother in her sheltered house in Daliburgh. Cosy wee hoose. Plates of soup. Cups of tea. Scones. Was…
This being the last issue before Christmas, I shall postpone until the New Year writing of the many problems confronting those who work in the NHS and social care, and…