Best touchstone for modern Scotland: Bannockburn or Declaration of Arbroath?
The leaking of plans to have the next Homecoming Year as 2014 raises some interesting historical, modern political, and practical issues.Last week, SNP plans to subsidise school trips to the site of...
View ArticleMabel Irving
With Greenock all but an honorary part of Argyll through its connection with Dunoon and Cowal, it seems fitting to point to a wonderful obituary in yesterday’s Herald by Jack Glenny for Mabel Irving...
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Islay High School wins not one but two FilmG awards
The young film-makers of Islay High School were jubilant last night (5th February) at the FilmG Awards at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness.Pictured above and below, they won no fewer than two awards...
View ArticleDamaging chauvinism from Scotland’s senior writer
In what is not only disappointing but damaging to the cause of Scottish independence which he passionately espouses, Scotland’s senior writer, Alasdair Gray, has delivered himself of a bilious judgment...
View ArticleInheritance, birth, blood, guilt and currency: the shaping of multiple...
Perhaps it is the issue of currency that obliquely brings into focus the implicit meaning, the as yet undefined nature of our currently joint ‘British’ identity.It’s not about flags, anthems,...
View ArticleDouble bill of strong Scottish drama for Appin
Mull Theatre and Òran Mór are presenting a double bill of powerful Scottish playwriting at Appin Village Hall, at 8 pm on Friday 21st February.The plays are Doras Dùinte, by Catriona Lexy Campbell and...
View ArticleSalmond snubbed oil and gas industry in Aberdeen – but John Reid wowed the room
The UK and Scottish cabinets were competing in Aberdeen recently, with the Prime Minister helicoptering out to a rig and both he and the First Minister doing what an industry, sick of the politicians’...
View ArticleFracking with a light touch: could planned change to trespass law fuel new...
The Financial Times earlier today broke a fracking story now picked up by the other major national news media.The Prime Minister, David Cameron’s Infrastructure Bill, which will speed up planning...
View Article£2,990 for Minard to repair War Memorial – but what about the obliteration of...
The World War 1 War Memorial in Minard on Loch Fyne in Mid Argyll is one of 20 war memorials across Scotland and its islands to receive modest funding from the Scottish Government to enable necessary...
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