There is a crime against
humanity on our doorstep.
It is time to name it
The Cafe
Those trams again
If you want to run away
and never be seen again,
don’t come here
Gerard Rochford
The July poem

Katie Cunningham of NHS Grampian, runner-up in the recent Young Scotland Programme organised by the Scottish Review, on the place where lives are marred from cradle to grave
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The Midgie
Islay’s daily pic

Summer in
George Square 1
There may not even
be time for pudding
in the New Club
The new democracy: part 1
Kenneth Roy
What, however, if the expert panel, after a couple of meetings and a pleasant lunch in the New Club – there may not be time for pudding – decides that there is nothing wrong with the present set-up?
Tomorrow: part II of The New Democracy
Kenneth Roy is editor of the Scottish Review
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