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…
‘The Book of Iona, An Anthology’, edited by Robert Crawford (Polygon) ‘Glasgow The Autobiography’, edited by Alan Taylor (Birlinn) These books appear to have a great deal in common. Both,…
9 February 2022 Home Become a Friend ‘Archipelago, A Reader’, edited by Nicolas Allen and Fiona Stafford (published by the Lilliput Press, Dublin) This is both a lengthy and weighty…
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I. Mick North is nice II. Walter Humes is not very nice Which one is the great dictator? The Scottish Reviewers More from Kenneth Roy McLeish fails to grasp the…
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,…
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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…
‘Slaves and Highlanders, Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean’, by David Alston (published by Edinburgh University Press) This is an excellent example of a scholarly book: detailed, well-documented, judicious,…
He arrived at my primary school in 1946, skin turned to leather by the sun. He taught us Latin and English, cricket, football, and rugby. As scouts, we learnt to…