“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.”
Abraham Lincoln & Robert Burns
Orkney Residents Respond to #Covid19 Discussion Paper
“We all want to see the end of the Lockdown as soon as possible, but only when it is safe and we really can control the spread of the virus.”
Pathogens before Politics
“At the end of the day if you are leading a country you make choices. You don’t follow the science , you make decisions based upon it .”
Letters: Renewables and Ofgem “Fly in the ointment for Orkney
“Orkney has become World renowned for energy innovation and is constantly finding new ways to utilise renewable energy”
The Bigger Picture
“ the movement towards self-government is much, much bigger than one man.”
Voices In The Ether: Problems With Audiobooks
“Audiobooks as a whole can be quite awkward and antiquated for customers despite how comparatively new the release medium itself is.”
Brexit Day
“I felt it important to get some important observations out to the wider movement.”
‘The Way To Win’
“There’s a thing called empathetic fallacy, which means that we take our own logical thinking and assume that everybody thinks like us.”
An Election for Christmas
Orcadian John Mowat shares his views on the upcoming General Election
Islands Plan Shows The Way For Rural Planning Across Scotland
Where we have Islands Proofing the proposed Bill would seek to see ‘Rural Proofing’ put in place for Scotland
