Across 1 A bare one is dressed for entity (8) 5 Baskets are right in inlets (6) 9 Brees I heard second-class lines (8) 10 Libero’s furnace? (6) 11 Resp...
Some pertinent thoughts from the the blog and website of Andy Wightman, Green MSP: The American land and tax reformer, Henry George, observed in his book, Progress and Poverty, in 1879, that “thirty...
To mark Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary year the McLellan Festival welcomed the Durham Shakespeare Group to Arran. On Saturday 20th August at the High School Community Theatre the group presente...
Our featured artist this month is Charles Herbert of Kildonan, who paints atmospheric seascapes and west coast scenes in oils. Charles, can you tell us something about your development as a painter? I...
The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism by Mark Edmundson. Bloomsbury. When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately i...
The film for September 11th at 8.00pm is Selma, director Ava DuVernay’s chronicle of Martin Luther King’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala...
Selected by David Underdown who also writes the commentary. The Fly She sat on a willow-trunk watching part of the battle of Crécy, the shouts, the gasps, the groans, the trampling and the tumbling. ...
Café Thyme at the Old Byre Visitor Centre, Machrie We tried out the Café Thyme for a family lunch, but perhaps I’ll start with the idea that the Old Byre now grandly calls itself a Visitor Centre ...
Turbines in Scotland provided 39,545 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity to the National Grid on Sunday 7th August while the country’s total power consumption for homes, business and industry was 37...
“What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns us away from the issues that will determine the course of our lives, and towards topics of brain-melting irreleva...