Iranian stamp 11 August 1988 3 July 1988 Taking off over the Persian Gulf, Iran air flight 655 was stuck by two surface to air missiles....

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It's not possible to look into the murder of Jodi Jones without being struck by the sheer absurdity of the investigation. I've removed...

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The case for an independent inquiry into the conviction of Luke Mitchell. Part 1 This is the story of a murder conviction that reeks to...

Hope.  I do nothing to summon it, I don’t nurture it but there it is.  I don’t know what to do with it.  I’ve navigated it well in the...

Scottish stand-up and actor, Karen Dunbar wondered whether she could succeed in today’s climate.  She showed a roomful of trans and...

When Jamie and Blithe cautiously entered the flat, they listened out for a few seconds. When they were sure they were alone, Blithe went...

This is Scotland in 2023, a world of food banks, a crumbling NHS and strikes. A time to count my many blessings and I do. At least,...

‘If you will not be decent, then I will be indecent! Get it up yis!’ And so, for surely the first time in the history of the new Scottish...

You observe a tearful child of no more than ten, with brown eyes and fragile limbs. The child wants dresses and dolls but the child is a...

Stewart Lee knew what smug meant when I was a kid. He devoted a double page spread in the Fist of Fun book to the Cornish Curmudgeon. ...

‘They’ve had one in Wales! They’ve had a drag queen story time in Wales! We should have one!’ I was tasked with LGBT inclusion in the...

I was nearly denied the joys of Gary Oldman’s farting detective. Slow Horses is much like The Singing Detective, if you were to replace...

The stage glows and that glow is soaked up in satin seating, flattering lighting and the smell of greasepaint and plaster. The lovely...

Introduction - Soutar Festival. Perth March 2022 I asked a question of the panel, who were discussing the future of the Scots language. ...

It’s a charge laid at us, that we don’t stop going on about WW2. Guilty. But it’s where modern feminism in the UK starts for me. That...

Dress by P J Harvey, is a piece of my musical puzzle. Not that I would command that Dress be played at my funeral, but, future planners,...

As a teenager I hated that I had a baby face. That, as well as other aspects of my personality, meant that people were protective of me....

I didn’t really want to go to Glasgow today. Looking out to a thick glowing mist, I had a fine excuse not to get on my bike and go but...