2 March 2022 Home Become a Friend As a fully paid-up subscriber to the online Chic Murray appreciation society, courtesy of Facebook (oops, now calling themselves Meta), I’m well aware…
‘Stepping Westward Writing the Highland Tour c.1720-1830 ‘, by Nigel Leask (published by Oxford University Press) This remarkable book is timely to a degree far beyond anything the author could…
One analogy between the COVID-19 pandemic and total war is that the effects are felt by everyone both at the War Front, in the NHS and social services, and at…
17 March 2021 Home Become a Friend A new international poetry competition, in memory of distinguished Aberdeen poet Gerard Rochford, is being launched on World Poetry Day on 21 March 2021. The Gerard…
‘Scotland and Arbroath 1320-2020 ‘, edited by Klaus Peter Müller (published by Peter Lang) This a very strange book in a range of ways. Its striking subtitle is ‘700 Years…
We all have memories of Christmas past. For me, the childhood excitement of waking to find presents at the foot of my bed, a reward perhaps for enduring the tedium…
It’s now 9pm Eastern Time, and I’m sitting here at home in Darien Connecticut in the middle of Hurricane Sandy. After battening down the hatches yesterday – both literally and…
‘Francis Hutcheson, Philosophical Writings’ (edited by Robin Downie and published by John Donald) First published in 1994, this selection from the works of the major Scottish philosopher Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746)…
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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…