Alan Riach, Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University, was the guest of the Saltire Society on Wednesday, 19th November, at the Ormidale Pavilion. He gave a fluent lecture on Scotland’s poets, t...
If anyone can revitalise the Labour Party in Scotland, it is probably Katy Clark, currently our Westminster MP, who is now looking to add her formidable talents to the Scottish political scene. She ha...
An e-mail from Margaret McDougall MSP to a member of the Arran Greens follows up the question of whether ‘mineral access rights’ may allow gas drilling to take place underneath homes in Sc...
selected by David Underdown, who writes the footnote. Tea for My Father by Michael Hoffman I think of his characteristic way of saying ‘tea’, with his teeth bared and clenched in anticipat...
On 2nd November, the Strathclyde Suite in the Glasgow Concert Hall was packed with 400 women of all ages, listening to Lesley Riddoch, Susan Stewart, Jeane Freeman and Natalie McGarry as they reflecte...
Starbucks doesn’t think its customers have the right to know what’s in their coffee. People in the small state of Vermont disagree – they want to know if Starbucks coffee (or anythin...
From December 5th, the permitted blood alcohol limit will be more strict, dropping from 80mg in every 100ml of blood to 50mg in every 100ml of blood. This brings the UK into line with most of Europe. ...
Jan McGregor writes about her recent trip, organised by Traidcraft. These tours are organised by Saddle Skedaddle in partnership with Traidcraft, and take you to meet the people producing fair trade p...
Jim Henderson continues his account of a summer trip The hotel in Barra is a refurbished church building, and one of the customers enjoying a meal was the parish priest who featured in the TV programm...