
Bridge Over Troublesome virus – playing bridge in the pandemic
I DON’T TEND to find myself with time on my hands. There is always plenty to do – I could, after all be tidying my

I DON’T TEND to find myself with time on my hands. There is always plenty to do – I could, after all be tidying my

THE FRENCH have a taste for Saithe and the Saithe they are particularly fond of is Scottish. Nobody else in the EU lands anywhere near

Linda Holt article from Tuesday 5, May, 2020 FEW PEOPLE have reason to linger in care homes. Fewer still have the energy or will to think about them in the round after dealing with the guilt-ridden and traumatic experience of visiting a relative who no longer recognises you. The exorbitant cost of staying in a […]

AS PUBLIC DEBATE TURNS, no doubt prematurely, to when any release on our lock-down might begin I am reminded of an old Shetland tale. A drunk

AS PART OF ITS ANALYSIS of the EU’s database of fish catches has mapped landings for each of the EU members fishing in the UK for each

APPLETON TOWER is a striking sight on Edinburgh’s skyline and its five lecture theatres alone can house 1,200 students. It also serves as a hub

COMMENTARY on our present viral predicament is turning towards what happens when lockdown measures are released. The left, predictably, is calling for the end of global

AT LAST MONDAY’S Coronavirus briefing Housing Minister Robert Jendrick announced the UK was now on “an emergency footing” in a way “unprecedented” in peacetime. Even

WHEN Edinburgh Council went into an early recess and cancelled Committees, emails started coming in from a few constituents asking whether the current consultation Choices for

EVERYTHING IS GRIST to the nationalist mill, and there is no reason to think that the Covid-19 pandemic would be any exception. The weekend’s influx

Linda Holt article from Thursday 26, March, 2020 OVER THE WEEKEND, hordes of townies flooded into the countryside in search of refuge from the coronavirus. Curiously, however, no-one seems to have predicted this mass evacuation. The spectacle brought to mind the opening sequence of the 70s dystopian TV serial Survivors (pictured), which imprinted itself on my teenage mind. […]

YOU DON’T NEED ME to tell you that media coverage in Scotland has been hijacked by two major topics recently. The first, and most important