“the inhabitants of Stromness did resolve to assert their natural liberties and therefore did refuse any longer to submit to this imposition”
Civil Disobedience in Stromness
Civil Disobedience in Stenness
‘These immense blocks of stone stood around the pirate in the grey light of the dawning, like the phantom forms of antediluvian giants.’ Sir Walter Scott
Book Review: Churchill’s Prisoners
The Italians in Orkney 1941 – 1944 written by James MacDonald
Testing Times
‘“At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful.”
Music Maks A’ The Differ Tae Life
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy” (Beethoven)
Contact Tracing – Cutting the Engine of the Pandemic
“It is essential to cut the engine of the pandemic at its source: separate healthy people from suspected and probable cases.”Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge
Keeping Faith With Our Humanity
“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.” Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List
By The Seas We Live
Scotland is a nation of islands. Although today most of our population lives in an urban mainland setting, no one is ever far from the sea.
Sweeping New Government Powers – The Coronavirus Act
“Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” Carl Sagan
The Ba
“Surprisingly there are few major injuries at The Ba and spectators wisely move quickly out the way as the thunder of men in pursuit nears them.”
