This is the season when the leaves fall from the trees, a season I used to love above all the others, but which now tends to bring melancholy reflections on…
I am writing this in my local internet cafe, or home, as I prefer to call it. The 21st century is often referred to as the digital age. Former ways…
Glasgow-born Tom Gallagher is a retired professor of politics who taught at the University of Bradford. He is the author of 12 scholarly books, the majority published by such…
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 King sits in Dunfermline toun drinkin the blood red wine’ and toasting its new city status… Dunfermline is to become Scotland’s eighth city after being granted it as part…
The origin of the term ‘epidemic’ is attributed to Hippocrates in about 400BCE. It was the title of one of the books attributed to him which described the occurrence of…
Predicting the end game of the Trump presidency is clearly dangerous, as time after time, the ante has been upped on the outrageous and unprecedented with no real consequences. But…