“As a nation, we’re a bit backward in coming forward, but I’ll say it: we’re really, really good at this.”
Farming Matters: “We Boast, then we Cower”
2014 Changed Me: I now Read the Paper from Front to Back
“The defeat in 2014, awful as it was, was the best experience of my life”
Farming Matters: Seeing Things That Never Were And Saying – Why Not?
“Leave politics aside and determine what we want our farming industry to look like, and then consider who might be best to deliver this.”
Win or Lose: The Game’s the Thing
“Scottish football is different, however. Scots have always brought their politics to the match.”
Farming Matters: The Road Less Travelled
“The story of how I came to spend a significant portion of my life in Orkney begins, bizarrely enough, in Morayshire.”
Abraham Lincoln & Robert Burns
“Robert Burns is Scotland’s poet but he belongs to the world….I make no apologies for beginning my story about Burns not in Ayrshire, but in America.”
Farming Matters :Endgame
“For Orkney farmers and those Scottish farmers firth of here, Brexit presents an existential threat”
Robert Burns & the Laki Volcano of 1783
“Death was everywhere. But it seems it came not in the guise of a guy in a hood, but a volcano.”
Alec Ross: We Don’t Own the Franchise for Modernity and Technology
“Do we think too much about the past? Shouldn’t we think more about the present? And this – was the past so very different?”
