During our annual stay in Scotland – Aberdeenshire, the Dee and the Cairngorms – we noticed a new feature of the landscape: posters and banners bearing the words Yes or No. Something dramatic was clearly taking place. Not being Scottish (although…
I’ve just read a story in which a man with an unpalatable past sacrifices himself in the most painful way to save someone he hardly knows. Such an act of redemption is one which appeals very much to what is…
Read: Redemption is the key
In the dying evening, when the sun has passed on but its memory remains you stand beside the jousting grounds and listen for sounds of war among the gilded houses The river is out of sight, so too the city…
Read: Shadows
I have a special affinity for St Jude, the patron saint of lost causes. Over many years of writing for a newspaper, and later for this website, I seem to have homed in on issues that to me seem clear,…