Politics
Commentary: Amy Jardine
My memory of the summer of 2019 will be that it was long, and hot, with storm-clouds on the horizon. The hum and stir of politics was the background to…
My memory of the summer of 2019 will be that it was long, and hot, with storm-clouds on the horizon. The hum and stir of politics was the background to…
The Spanish Election was meant to see the fragile coalition of Socialist PM Pedro Sanchez swept away and usher in a right-wing coalition government of The People’s Party (PP) and…
I have just read Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, by Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire (published by Vintage) and have concluded that reviewers have failed to…
As I stood stock still in the icy silence of the remembrance ceremony at the village War Memorial, very little seemed to make sense. ‘This is as close as it…
Shona and Luke had lived in Symington for almost two years now. Thistle Cottage in Main Street was their first home together. It had been in the ownership of generations…
I gave a talk in Scotland recently and opened with the quip that I’d moved to America for a job but was staying for the political stability. Joking aside, as…