Caverslee Burn
Caverslee Burn, In the Footsteps of Joan Eardley (Almost). The walk began well. The path was dry, dusty and wide. Sheep and cattle grazed amiably in the fields, and a lone hare galloped away at my approach until it disappeared into a drystane dyke. Or seemed to. Hares know a trick or two when it […] Source
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A People Once Again? The Irish Questions
Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride, For and Against a United Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, £18. Reviewed by David McCrone We have become used to the parade of prejudices masquerading as analysis in much writing and journalism. It is refreshing, therefore, that two of Ireland’s best journalists have set out the cases for and against a […] Source
Refusing the Frame: Why Our Language Helps Hate — and How We Can Stop It
This past Saturday I stood outside Cameron Barracks in Inverness with more than two hundred others at the Highlands Against Hate counter-protest. Across the line the anti-immigrant turout who we’d come to stand against, was much smaller but the language they brought with them was loud, familiar, and telling. They stood behind banners reading “People […] Source
‘Shut up!’: Harrison Ford bungles name of whisky he’s promoting in hilarious new ad
Clients of 100-year-old law firm ‘owed thousands of pounds’ after closure
Westminster and Scotland’s energy, fool me once…
Scotland is, by far and away, the most energy rich country of the islands of Britain and Ireland. Moreover it has more in the way of energy resources than just about any other country in Europe, with the exception of Norway (Russia’s vast fossil fuel resources are overwhelmingly concentrated in the…