22 June 2021 Home Become a Friend The pandemic has produced many casualties, but music and musicians have been particularly badly affected – firstly because audiences cannot gather, and secondly…
21.07.09 BRITAIN’S REAL EPIDEMIC Comment: Kenneth Roy on slow roads to fast deaths [click here] STUDENTS: THE NEW CUSTOMERS Education: Jill Stephenson deplores the corruption of our universities [click here]…
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Wick is a small town of a few thousand people in the far north-east of Scotland. The odd thing is that, consciously or unconsciously, nearly everyone in the UK knows…
The media Whitehaven Lorn Macintyre On the day of the Cumbrian massacre I was reading yet another book on the murder, in Perugia, Italy, in November 2007, of the English…
‘Anent Hamish Henderson: Essays, Poems, Interviews’, edited by Eberhard Bort (Grace Note Publications) Eberhard Bort, of Edinburgh University’s School of Scottish Studies, has already edited three collections relating to the…
23 September 2020 Home Become a Friend I work at Edinburgh University, which has recently acceded to a formal call from its Students’ Association (EUSA) for the renaming of the…
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Bullies in the mist ‘The Lucky Charm of Major Bessop: A Grotesque Mystery of Fife’ by Tom Hubbard (Grace Note Publications) Tom Hubbard is a remarkable Scottish author. Best known…
There has been only one surprise among the latest COVID-19 events. In the UK, we have continued to see high levels of infection, mainly among gregarious younger people and the…