Whatever the government seems to think, it does not look like it is going to be, relaxed rules or not, a happy Christmas, although the vaccine news suggests a rather…
The market town of Insch sits in a sheltered howe in the rural heart of Aberdeenshire. It is the smallest settlement having its own station on the Aberdeen-Inverness railway line, and…
Wednesday afternoon, 17 March 2020, as well as being St Patrick’s Day, was the day myself and colleagues were advised that we should gather up as much of our equipment,…
Kenneth Royâs Notebook on ‘passing away’ as a description of death reminds me of the old Highland expression of ‘passing on’. It was a reminder that lifeâs journey is not…
I was intrigued to read Gillean Somerville-Arjat’s piece last week (12 May) on an apparently lost poem. This rang a bell and I realised that I had been in the…
Following the recent about-turn by the Scottish government, we now have the local authorities in the firing line as âtax raisersâ with a directive to apply additional rises to bands…
This was to be the election when things got tactical. George Galloway urged us to vote for the best placed constituency candidate to beat the SNP and then for his…
Kenneth Roy‘s splendid piece about Scotland’s dodgy claim to be morally superior sadly lacks some essential information. (Can’t get proper investigative journalists these days.) Discussing the historic decision to ban…
It has been quite a week. As a wee boy in the central Scotland village in which I had the fortune of being raised, I witnessed a few fist fights….
Kenneth Roy is right to say that we did not know what we were voting for in the 1997 devolution referendum. But we never do. There may be some fixed…