At a round of golf sometime back in the 1960s, one of the group of players decided to share some apples he had brought along. They were good apples, recalled…
The implication of the graphs I showed in last week’s article is that action on climate change is urgent and will be painful. Two recent events, apparently unrelated, draw attention…
Nor any drop to drink. The Romantic poets had gone rather out of fashion among students studying English at university in my day, but their poems do have a way…
I was at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for a morning recently and I heard just one case. This wasn’t because of any legal complexities, requiring hours of heated debate, stretching beyond…
Earth, air, fire and water – since the earliest years of civilisation when we first congregated into cities, we have thought of these as the elements of our environment. We…
Among the many inducements offered by the proponents of Brexit to a gullible public was to reduce the burden imposed on our economy by European regulations, the so called ‘red…
Just before Christmas, as San Sebastian prepared to relinquish its year as one of the two European Capitals of Culture (shared with Wroclaw in Poland), there was a silent demonstration…
Two big and inter-related issues have attracted the attention of the media this month â race and migration. The media reported accusations of racial discrimination in Yorkshire County Cricket Club…
Let me take you back to 1942. It was not a good time and there are parallels with the present. Our army had been effectively defeated and had retreated from…
In September 1942 I travelled to Glasgow to begin my studies at Glasgow School of Art, the first and only known step for me to take in what I saw…