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Dear Valued Reader

A very warm welcome to Issue 76 of

Gordon Craigie

An independent mind…

The myth of demographic inevitability

Scot Goes Pop

A Constitution for Scotland

Grouse Beater is an essayist, filmmaker and troublemaker

Poet’s Corner

By the time he

Talking Tech

Twitter @RabBrucesSpider THIS MONTH I’m going to write

Witch Hunts

UPHEAVAL, warfare, famine or disease - these were

The nautical nomad...

Bob’s globetrotting adventures have obviously been on hold this past year due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Here, he once again delves into his blog archive, but this time to complete his much more local, landlocked, mini adventure from April last year…

Head in Head the Clouds in

I T HAPPENS, not often, in fact rarely,

Scotch Gothic – Edgar Allan Poe in Ayrshire

That nicht a child micht understand, the Deil had business on his hand

The Show Must Go On!

How one vibrant young theatre company is coming back to life after lockdown

Out of the Loop

An iScot Short Story

Orcas!

THE WIPERS swiped intermittently, clearing the light rain

Svein Asleifarson-Orkney's Last Sea Wolf

WRITTEN IN THE 13th century, by an Icelandic

Shadow of the Ziggurat

ALLAN MARTIN

A Place to Come Back to

Alex J. Craig reviews Home by John MacKay

Major Bloodnok, Agony Aunt

Heed my wisdom or it’s no milkshakes for you

SODUKO