Sick Buildings Syndrome.
The ruins of the Glasgow School of Art are yet to give up their secrets. A vast fire ate through …
Tag Archives: Opinion
A Bad Week for the EU.
It is a bad week for the European Union whenever people notice it and begin to think about it. This …
Poetry Review: A Royal Wedding Poem by Carol Ann Duffy.
How can she stand it – how can anybody stand it – this prostitution of English literature in front of …
Time to Crash Out!
Summer is here, the city is fresher than it’s felt in a long time, and it’s time to crash out! …
The Windrush Scandal: British Citizenship Should Become Unconditional After Three Years.
Callooh! Callay! for the UK’s Antillean migrants. The Home Secretary Amber Rudd promised this afternoon that their applications for British …
Should St Peter’s Seminary be Left to the Wilderness?
St Peter’s Seminary stands ruined in the woods outside Cardross. It is a two hour and twenty minute train ride …
A Closer Look at Mear One’s Mural.
“I sincerely regret that I did not look more closely at the image I was commenting on.” The Labour leader …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 22).
[SCENE: The BrewDog on the Cowgate, an apparently half-dismantled bar with bare brickwork on the walls and a stripped-away ceiling. …
The USS Strike Comes to Holyrood.
Today there is feeble but pretty sunshine slanting across the pavements and everything in Edinburgh still looks a little sleek …
What is the Use of “Artists for Brexit”?
Let me plunge you back into the cauldron of 2014. Scotland is in the midst of – of all things! …
Lunchtime at the USS Strike.
It is midday and the University and College Union are holding their first rally of the strike. Bristo Square has …
The Collapse of Freight Books is Fantastic for the Scottish Arts.
It is a Rubik’s Cube that most of the Scottish media has been studying in bafflement. What twist can crack …
Start-Ups In Season.
A story leapt out of my news feed on Monday morning that may well put me in a good mood …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 21).
[SCENE: The Caley Picture House. James, Tychy, Pablo, and Tori are drinking in one of those stylish wooden alcoves.] Tychy …
Book Review: Ten Days That Shook the World.
Somehow we have all conspired to remember one of the most profound events in human history by gravitating to the …
