Ignorance of the law is no defence

Dear Valued Reader

A very warm welcome to issue 78 of

An independent mind…

This month, I’m in conversation with Iona Fyfe – singer, musician, writer, and political, trade union and Scots language activist…

Zone Libre: North of the Border TV

Scot Goes Pop

An Independent Island

Grouse Beater is an essayist, filmmaker and troublemaker

The Path Of Least Resistance

WE ARE CURRENTLY in the midst of a

The Luckless Chemist

WHEN I WAS a pupil at Kirkintilloch High

Thank you for the music…

“Music is the universal language of mankind” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Talking Tech

Twitter @RabBrucesSpider IT’S A SHORT Talking Tech

The 1955 Costa Hill Wind Turbine

Costa hill summit I N 1887

A home for You With Trust Make Life Easier

P ERHAPS more than ever, retirement is a

If the stones could speak Harris & Lewis

A FEW YEARS ago, we travelled

The Mission to the Jews

“I’m standing above the River Danube on the famous Chain Bridge joining Buda with Pest, built by the Scottish engineer Adam Clarke. To provide for the spiritual needs of his workforce, a Scots kirk was established, but the main reason for the Scottish presence here was the fact that Budapest was the principle Jewish metropolis of Europe in the nineteenth century - and a Scottish Mission to the Jews was established here in 1841. Later it produced one of our best loved missionaries and martyrs, Jane Haining, who would die in the summer of 1944 in the extermination camp of Auschwitz…”

Raindr ops on Roses

I’LL TELL YOU something for nothing....Julie Andrews has

GREG

An iScot Short Story

THE PAYMENT

An iScot Short Story

A Parade of Suspects

Alex J. Craig reviews Next in Line by Marion Todd

MajorBloodnok, Agony Aunt

Heed my wisdom or gardyloo

SODUKO