Hope over Fear

Dear Valued Reader

A very warm welcome to issue 77 of

Gordon Craigie

An independent mind…

The Scotland to Come

I N THAT FAR-OFF and very strange land

Why Women Won’t Wheesht

GRA reform and the redefinition of ‘woman'

A Plague On All Our Houses

I N AUGUST 2021 the Scottish Government finally

Talking Tech

Supersense Twitter @RabBrucesSpider IN RECENT years I have

Ane end o ane auld sang

The Saltire Society holds an annual lecture inspired by the Scottish patriot, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun. I delivered the 1988 lecture in the Kirk at East Saltoun, introduced by one of our greatest historians Geoffrey Barrow. I gave it in Scots, and what you have below is my perspective on Scotland and Scottish culture back then. I have adapted it very slightly for today’s audience. In 1988 I concluded that we needed the return of a parliament to fulfil our destiny as a nation, today I realise that we need an “independent parliament” to fulfil that destiny

Power For The People

The development of Hydro

A Walk by the River

Writhing and squirming, the

The Vaccine Challenge

“We could create a National Pharmaceutical Company to secure the supply of essential medicines under greater public ownership and to help manufacture and deliver them to the world’s most vulnerable.” Anishka Cameron

Deja Vu

W ELL, IT’S BEEN a busy month at

A Monstrous Day Out

WHETHER you believe in the Loch Ness Monster

Monster Burger

Ingredients 500g of beef mince 3 crushed garlic

Readers can do it for Themselves

Alex J. Craig offers tips on writing your own reviews

MajorBloodnok, Agony Aunt

Heed my wisdom or the Muppet gets it

Personal Astrologer to Kermit the Frog

©iScot Magazine I am still concerned. This month

SODUKO

Easy WORK OUT SPACE WORK OUT SPACE WORK

A Scottish Car Company

Grouse Beater is an essayist, filmmaker and troublemaker

Internationalism In one country

THE MOST fundamental truth about The British Way