Across the Bridge

Lest we forget

Alyn Smith is one of Scotland’s six Members of the

The Dinwoodie Interview

MICHAEL Stewart is not your average former footballer.

Why the SNP must use its mandate to call an indyref

This man does not strike me as the most obvious poster-boy

Scot Goes Pop

The fatal problem with Pete Wishart’s manifesto for

Everybody wants the world to change

Well, some of us do. It’s that fundamental human urge

A wee blether with Mary Dick

We were strolling north along Middle Meadow Walk in

Artist Greg Moodie illustrates his contemporary Caledonia

From Muriel Spark in a studded choker to James Clerk

Quines

Gerda Stevenson’s Tribute to Women of Scotland

Storm clouds ahead

Wee Ginger Dug

Thinkin an Speerin Fur Wursels

Orkney has the oldest public lending library in Scotland

Be the change you want to see…

Internati onal Women’s Day has evolved over the last

The Scottish world record holder

nobody’s heard of…

What, Me Worry?

I’ve had to stop cleaning the house – the furniture

A Crime without a Name

Genocide is a powerful and emotive term. First coined

The New Scottish GP Contract – Dell Or No Dell?

In April 2018 Scotland’s general practitioners will

The Sickness of Insecurity

Three apparently unconnected things. A paper published

All The World’s Women…

APPROACHING International Women’s Day on the 8th of

STRAINING AT THE LEAD

TOBY makes the big decisions. That’s how it should

National Days of Celebration?

NATIONAL days are a curious thing. They generally are

Meadows of the Sea

IN DISCUSSIONS about the immense resources and natural

Natural Capital and Ocean Lungs

THE EVIDENCE is abundant that our oceans contribute

ANNIE’S SONG

IT WOULDN’T have mattered much had Annie Davidson McEwen

Anchors A-weigh

THIS month has been chaotic with little time to spare

Law and Justice in a Lunatic State

EDINBURGH -born Philip Kerr’s series of thrillers featuring

MajorBloodnok, Agony Aunt

Heed my wisdom or Boris will make another speech

Mons Meg Personal Astrologer to Mystic Michelle Mone

THIS month I’ve decided to take a (gold) leaf out a

Devolution Differences for the Disabled?

Got a picture with a special memory for you? It might

SEND IN THE CLOWNS Chris Cairns

Chris Cairns’s widely acclaimed cartoons chronicle