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It was the 11th November as I sat down to write. I was listening to the Remembrance Day evensong from Ely Cathedral, having just read Barbara Millar’s moving account of…
It was the 11th November as I sat down to write. I was listening to the Remembrance Day evensong from Ely Cathedral, having just read Barbara Millar’s moving account of…
It has been an interesting week. Not only the excitement of the Presidential Election and the looming disaster of a no-agreement Brexit, but also the rising interest in Long Covid…
Following a recent BBC Radio 4 programme on the 50th anniversary of The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil , Bill Paterson responds with an inside story of…
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…
Podcast below, narrated by the author, actor Bill Paterson: The lockdown, current obsessions and a significant birthday brought some memories bubbling to the surface. Fifty years ago, in 1970, the…
It is not necessary to confiscate land; it is only necessary to confiscate rent – Henry George (American economist and writer) The one asset that Scotland knows well about is…
In all the long history of Humanity, no event has been as catastrophic as the Black Death. No tidal wave, no storm, no earthquake, no volcanic eruption, no great fire…
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…
The UK has not, and never has been, a political democracy – Gerry Hassan Gerry Hassan is correct: Britain is not a full political democracy even though, perhaps surprisingly, it…
COMMENT The enemy within Anthony Seaton A plug hole called London There is a tapeworm living within the body of the United Kingdom. It fuels itself with our nourishment and…