There’s something almost theatrical about watching politicians reinvent themselves. With the Scottish Parliament election set for May 7th, a parade of SNP MPs are suddenly discovering that their true calling…
Are you finding it difficult to keep up with the Covid story? You are not alone. Early in this series of essays on the subject, I recalled that in the…
It’s a standard Hollywood script. Spur your protagonist to action by threatening their kids. Poke their lizard brain paternal instinct and watch them go full Liam Neeson in Taken ….
Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle wrote that ‘the history of the world is but the biography of great men’. That theory was tested recently by academics from UCLA who used eight…
Have you ever wondered if a digital Scotland has continued to produce bright ideas in line with the country’s unequalled global reputation? Historically, we’re talking of a halcyon period of…
Two things caught my eye last week, one rather trivial and the other of momentous, probably existential importance. Both can be dealt with by considering this one word, reckless. It…
Charles Richard ‘Dick’ Poor departed this life on 16 October 2021, having arrived almost exactly 95 years earlier in Sheffield. He was the eldest of five children and was already…
My grandfather, Robert M Reid, was 35 years old when the first world war began. Having spent much of his free time over the previous 15 years with the Forfarshire…
Dundee is not the first city to take a cultural path to regeneration, but the newly opened V&A museum may change Dundee’s profile beyond all recognition. Just as the Guggenheim…
How best do you commemorate a war? A war that was once supposed to be over by Christmas? A war that was supposed to end all wars? A war that…