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DEAR READER, I have provided two photos of this last painting. One in the light and one against. The painting is 3 feet x 4

LOCKDOWN LIFE has been pretty tough going. I for one was sick and tired of hearing, “It’s actually quite nice to just slow down.” Slow

DENNIS KAVANAGH is supposed to have commented recently that ‘Scottish politics has not been this much fun since Macbeth’. His quip is not quite accurate

I’VE NEVER KNOWN a time in the past ten years when there’s not been more than a few months pause from Nationalists telling how we

IT WAS BEAUTIFUL in the Country today. I felt it regularly as I ran along the narrow lanes between those  strong winds, cloud, sleet and snow;

WHILE VOTING can often be tied to family, perhaps for generations, it is accepted that there has been a change in voting patterns in recent

THE SCOTTISH EDUCATION system may well soon get a whiff of what teaching would have been like if Britain had not repulsed the might of

LOCKDOWN day 399,507 or so it seems and it’s just another week – but with one exception! My family had come up with the idea

EYES ON THE PRIZE should be the mantra of every individual who is concerned about the rise of nationalism in Scotland. Eyes on the prize.

AWAY FROM the course at Fort Leavenworth there was an awful lot of extra-curricular activity going on, much of it thanks to our civilian sponsors

WHATEVER way you look at it, the Easter holidays haven’t really been Easter holidays. I mean it’s like we’ve just been flung back into a