iScot Book Review

A right hammy rammy

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 and Scotland’s representative on the Agriculture Commitee.

The Dinwoodie Interview

THIS story begins with Gerry Devine, a Lanarkshire

Irresistible Force

THEY should just give up. Theresa May and her trusted

Boredom Meant Brexit

Scot Goes Pop

Fallacy-history repeats itself

“There is no other way”

Graves By the Ocean Where the Cattle May Tread

“But for them the tyrannical government of the Stuarts would have thrust upon us a form of ecclesiastical polity which we consider unscriptural and which is certainly unsuited to the genius of the Scottish people”

BREXIT like lambs to the slaughter!

IN THE hills behind Seamill in my native Ayrshire last

Old Ways through the Glens

THE SUN was shining, the car packed, road-atlas to

Wee Ginger Dug Don’t call us, we’ll call you

ON A SUNDAY afternoon at the end of May, I was driving

The Man who hated Pillars

I MET HIM only once, in April 2018, in Berlin. His

MARCHING SEASON

”This is not politics,” opined Pauline Eggermort, Inverness’

Why Is The NHS So Anti-Social?

WHEN I attended medical school in the mid-1980s we

Scots Wha Hae… Bonnie Symbols!

OUR NATIONAL symbols are important. They are expressions

How to Lose the Next IndyRef

There are none so blind as those who will not see!

Amazing Disgrace

As regular readers ken fine, Dad aye sings tae us on

ROBOT ME

I WASAN avid science fiction fan as a youngster. My

SHINE A LIGHT

RESEARCH by the Royal National Institute of Blind People

The Trades House, Glasgow

Past Governor and Member, Scottish Tartans Authority, Deacon of the Incorporation of Weavers of Glasgow (Est 1514)

Whisky Galore!

ARDNAMURCHAN may be a particularly remote and sparsely

The Peace Academy

2018 SEES the 60th anniversary of the Campaign for

Peggie’s Emporium

A LIFETIME ago I was a shopgirl working after school

Oh, Where are you now when we need you

I ‘Twas an end of ane auld sang Where did our long-held

Conservation Begins at Home

iSCOT has looked recently at Scottish input to the

A Good Father

HE SAID he would be back next day. Deborah closed the

Incident at Dunagoil

WE OFTEN visit the Isle of Butte; it’s easy to get

Alt for Norge-All for Norway

NORWAy is a young and proud nation which regained its

MajorBloodnok, Agony Aunt

Heed my wisdom or i’ll appoint you to the Lords

Letters

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