Tag: Donald Trump
Presidential visit – Carnival of Resistance
No it's not the name of a Fringe show. It is the gathering of like-minded people who want to mark President Trump's visit to Scotland this weekend.
There is a march in Glasgow on Friday...
Letter from Scotland
The excitement of the week for me was to see a kingfisher, this particular kingfisher. He or she (there’s little difference) lives close to a hide in the nature reserve where I volunteer on...
Alastair McIntosh: Poacher’s Pilgrimage – An Island Journey
Alastair McIntosh was born in 1955 at Leurbost on Lewis, that northern part of a Hebridean island with two names, two identities. Forty-three years earlier, a certain Mary Anne MacLeod had been born just...
Letter from Scotland
He stands tall in his own park in his home town of Dunfermline. Andrew Carnegie is the embodiment of his own book published in 1889 “The Gospel of Wealth.” He’s the example of the...
Letter from Scotland
I’m proud of my fellow Scots this week. While we were busy debating our national budget, thousands of people found time to turn out on street demonstrations against Donald Trump’s latest outrage….the arbitrary ban...
Scotland against Trump holding protest at The Mound at 6.00pm today
A protest is planned for this evening at 6.00pm at the pedestrianised area at the foot of The Mound by the campaign group Scotland Against Trump.
This Emergency Protest follows the executive order published by...
A Traditional Kick-Off Time for the Edinburgh Derby? Fat Chance!
It was inevitable the forthcoming William Hill Scottish Cup fifth round tie between Hearts and Hibernian would be kicking off on a day and time to suit television. As soon as Rod ‘I am...
Letter from Scotland
We are indeed being chased by demons. Alexander Goudie’s wonderful series of 54 paintings inspired by Burns’ “Tam O’ Shanter” have gone on rare display in South Ayrshire and they capture splendidly the mad...
Letter from Scotland
Remembrance weekend is always captured for me by golden leaves on green grass. The leaves are lives which are blown down by the cold wind of winter and the grass is the life those...
I Don’t Give a Trump About the US Election
If you switch on the television or radio or surf the internet at the moment you might be forgiven for thinking there are only three things happening in the world right now – the...
Leith Academy pupils win internship places on U.S. presidential campaign
Four Leith Academy pupils have won a nationwide competition to intern as part of US Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign in the US in November.
Morven MacKay, Caitlin Munn, Liam Stobie and Katie Ewart will...
Letter from Scotland
“So I suppose you just move round the table,” said Alice. “Exactly so,” said the Hatter. “But what happens when you get back to the beginning ?” Alice ventured to ask. “Suppose we change...
Letter from Scotland
This weekend we Burns fans are given over to “eating haggis and cranachan, toasting the lassies, dancing the Dashing White Sergeant and cavorting,” as the poster advertising my Burns Night puts it. It’s a...
Letter from Scotland
It’s one of the great icons of modern Scotland. So when the great silver bridge flying over the Firth of Forth is broken, it’s a little embarrassing.
Some over- excited politicians have called it a...
Letter from Scotland
This weekend Scotland’s farmers are putting on their 175th Royal Highland Show in the fields around Edinburgh Airport known as Ingliston. It’s a reminder to us city folk that Scotland is still an agricultural...
Letter from Scotland
On a glorious sunny day this week, on Tuesday, I had the privilege of being in the 19.5 per cent of Scotland which has been designated “wild land.” A climber friend of mine was...
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