Wander up Kinnoull Hill in Perth today. I don't think I've been up here before, but it had really good paths and was pretty quiet so reckon we'll be back.
I'm incensed to see #Starmer say ”Winning the trust of people across past divides, such as leave and remain, or yes and no in Scotland, is vital.”
#Brexit and #Scottish independence are not past divides, they're current. Leaving the #EU has been a disaster which in no way resembles the promises of the Leave campaign. #Scotland deserves to be able to reassess the union as so much has changed since the #independence vote a decade ago.
“I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s ANNALS OF THE PARISH
“[Galt’s] realism is hard-headed, his compassion is tough-minded, his humour contagious but tainted with the sense that chaos and catastrophe are never far away.”
George Buchanan & the Highlands & Islands of Scotland
22 May, Stirling
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George Buchanan (1506–1582): poet, scholar, humanist, constitutional theorist, & native #Scots & #Gaelic speaker. Prof Ali Cathcart will examine Buchanan’s writings on the Gaelic-speaking parts of Scotland found in his 1582 Rerum Scoticarum Historia
The Doings of Doyle podcast
Episode 50: The Surgeon of Gaster Fell (1890)
A close look at a deeply personal story that draws on the sad case of Arthur Conan Doyle’s father. Featuring redactions, dreamy rooms, the Foreign Legion, fairy art, & dodgy lodgers …