This week’s lunar and solar peregrinations were a carefully planned overture to our daughter, Caoimhe’s 40th birthday today. The finale will take place in the South side of Glasgow this evening with a magnificent constellation of friends attending. All very different from the morning of 21st March
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NATO’S Deputy Commander, General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, engaging in some pro-Western bluster, said recently that it had to be in a state of high readiness in order to convince Russia that an attack on one Nato ally will inevitably provoke conflict with the whole alliance. David Cameron
Read more →The BBC was in the vanguard to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the funeral of Winston Churchill. For a fortnight we had trailers and tributes to the achievements of Britain’s wartime leader. The right was unrestrained in the sycophantic revisionism and selective amnesia of the language used to describe
Read more →The Scottish Government has announced plans to bridge the attainment gap between pupils from poor backgrounds and those from wealthier households. The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, acknowledged that the causes of poverty were not educational but came from a much deeper, social malaise which affected the life
Read more →The audience at the Lyceum last night had braved zero temperatures to watch Brian Friel’s ‘Faith Healer’ and they were well rewarded by a courageous production. The delivery of the monologues, which form the structure of the drama, is demanding for even the most accomplished of performers;
Read more →‘Lock them up and throw away the key’ is a clichéd adage of the extreme Right, lazy tabloid journos and UKIP fellow travellers, against which we are long inured. In most cases, it arises where particularly vicious crimes have been committed against children, the elderly and the
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Andrew Rawnsley, the respected Observer columnist , suggested a couple of weeks ago that Nigel Dodds could well decide who the next UK Prime Minister will be. Nigel who, you may well ask – are there two of them. Dodds is second in command in the DUP
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Payday loan lenders in this country have grown exponentially since the Financial Crash of 2008 and have been allowed to extort money from the most vulnerable citizens for the past five years. Government and, indeed, the Opposition, have not seemed overly concerned about their activities until
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The eccentric people of Lewes in Sussex burned an effigy of the First Minister, Alex Salmond, on Bonfire Night last week. Various media apologists assured us that this was just good fun and that many other ‘weel kent’ faces have suffered a similar fate on previous occasions.
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BBC News today has been headlining the case of a Welsh man who pretended to be in a coma while he was in receipt of disability benefit. However, he was filmed on CCTV pushing a shopping trolley unaided . Nobody condones this behaviour but I suspect that
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