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Teddy JamiesonHerald Scotland |
SO, what have you been up to in 2023? I’ve just been totting this year up. In the last 12 months I’ve read 76 books (I’ve another couple on the...
ANOTHER year, another climate conference. COP28 concluded this week with an agreement in place to “transition away” from fossil fuels. Good news?...
There have been around a thousand movies and TV dramas made about Napoleon over the years. That’s more than even Hitler or Jesus, it seems. The...
“THE past is a foreign country,” the novelist LP Hartley famously suggested. “They do things differently there.” Well, maybe Leslie, but...
IT is disconcerting when you watch an advert that feels as if it is aimed directly at you. It is even more unsettling when it’s an ad for Marks &...
SOME years ago I found myself in Hampstead in London. It was Tom Conti’s fault. I was there to interview him for The Herald Magazine. I was early...
Four years ago today I became a widower. At just after eight in the morning on October 5, 2019, in Strathcarron Hospice near Denny my wife Jeanie...
IT’S an act of desperation, isn’t it? The news that the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is going to water down net zero policies, which caused such a...
SO, have you seen Theresa May’s official portrait yet? It’s actually quite an impressive piece of work by the artist Saied Dai. It makes the...