“I’ll keep adding, as I think of things/come across things…”
Reasons To Be Cheerful – Part Two
Scotland Rises
“planning doesn’t distract us from the grave issues in front of us. Indeed, it is an essential part of the solution.”
Editorial: A Letter Tae America
Like the vast majority of people all around the world, sitting here in Orkney, I was shocked at the scenes unfolding in Washington.
Over Half New Lords ‘Political Appointments’
The majority of Boris Johnson’s new Lords appointees have a background in politics according to research by The Electoral Reform Society.
Sgathaich: Thunderbirds Attack of the Alligators
“Attack of the Alligators is one of the later episodes of season one.”
A Response: Flying The Scottish EU Flag
“I didn’t realise that the article on the Scotland/EU flag that I contributed to The Orkney News would engender such an interesting debate on several front”
A Wizard Wheeze
“We used to use two galvanized steel dustbins for our rubbish, then wheelie bins took over and the metal bins went into the shed, where they sat in the corner, doing nothing, for years.”
Film Corner with Njal Heddle: Mank (2020)
The Citizen Kane of Citizen Kane movies.
(Not) A Laughing Matter…..
It isn’t that I could ever consider what Boris Johnson says as funny, it is just that at times I can’t help thinking of him in the same terms I’d consider a […]
Origin of life: some news
“Yasuhiro Oba and colleagues may have found the missing link between interstellar space, planet formation and the synthesis of life through the mechanisms that resolve the ‘water paradox’ outlined by Michael Marshall.”
