Not So Random Scottish History

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Welcome to issue 57 of our award winning iScot Magazine.

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The Dinwoodie Interview

IT WOULD be fair to say Chris Deerin is hard to pigeon

Boris Johnson’s Abuse of Power

Twitter @Jeggit

Prison Without Bars

I NEVER embraced the idea of Scotland being a colony

You don’t win by walking away

DURING the Queen’s Speech debate in mid-October, SNP

The Scottish Independence Foundation

SINCE ITS D-Day launch in 2018 the Scottish Independence

Talking Tech

Twitter @RabBrucesSpider

Cheating Death

THERE IS AN old Scots saying that could not be more

Karoshi

(noun: (in Japan) death caused by overwork or job-related exhaustion)

EDINBURGH more than meets the eye?

A new look at the city through the photographs of Allan Wright and the poetry of Gerda Stevenson

Twenty Twenty or Nineteen EightyFour?

WE ARE APROACHING the 2020s, yet often it feels as

A Faerie Story

“FOR AGES an army of spirits, once so near, has been

Gentle on my Mind

EVER SINCE I became bionic there’s been a constant

Bloody Muddy Scotland

WELL, WHAT CAN I SAY, except that yet again it’s been

Beth, Jo, the Cringe and Me

I’D NEVER EVEN heard of Josephine Tey until four years

PAYBACK TIME

THE USHER HALL is well-filled, despite the £100 ticket

DAY STAR

UNTIL THE day the sun fell from the sky, no monk of

iScot Book Review

Alex J. Craig reviews A Treachery of Spies by Manda

MajorBloodnok, Agony Aunt

Heed my wisdom and I’ll make it stop

Personal Astrologer to Wangland

GREAT mysteries can be hidden in arcane documents