iScot Book Review

Knitting a parachute

Alyn Smith is one of Scotland’s six Members of the European Parliament. He is a member of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Commitee.

The Dinwoodie Interview

BEN MACPHERSON was an 18-year-old Labour Party member

If We Are Anything Less Than Giants

“THERE’S nothing I wouldn’t do for independence,” writes

The election you really weren’t expecting

IT WASN’T very long ago that it genuinely seemed just

For those about to rock…

ALL GREAT stories – even moderately interesting ones

Crossraguel Abbey unlocking the past

MEMORY is a strange thing. I can be halfway up the

Fake news! Fake democracy!

IN OCTOBER last year, the British government decreed

Sour Milk

AS HUMAN beings we belong to the class of animals known

Pedal Power

ONCE both a plaything of the wealthy and a means of

A History of the Scots Language

Billy Kay is the author of Scots The Mither Tongue and over the next few months, he will tell the story of the Scots language from its ancient origins to the present day.

Whisky of the Islands Uisge Beatha nan Eilean

NOTWITHSTANDING some outrageous union-flaggery in recent

It’s all about trust

THIS MONTH we will be dealing with two separate but

‘Glore of thy sex,and miracle to men ‘

Esther Inglis and Scottish Jacobean Culture

Nine Haiku for Esther Inglis

from QUINES: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland

1-2-1

Dad and Blaze are away doing important stuff, and I

Stennis Historical Society

The settlement is not shown on even the oldest Ordnance

The green green grass of home

LITTLE is more precious than a comfortable, safe home

Wee Ginger Dug lokk into my lies

LIES, LIES and more lies. That’s what Brexit has shown

Bird Box, Bird Brain or Bird’s Eye View?

I HAVEN’T seen the film, “Bird Box” and I don’t have

HAZEL FOREVER

HAZEL DIED on a Tuesday, which was kind of bizarre

THE CRYPT

EVERY so often my nephew Andrew comes to visit us.

CODE CRACKER

Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet.