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With the arrival of early summer, conversation and media coverage tend to revolve around international football championships. For many,...

With just four weeks to go till the big challenging adventure, anticipation is surely building; a sense of excitement is already in the...

Celebrating the lives of long-dead African explorers has rather gone out of fashion these days, as our view of imperialism is not one of...

Ageing is an inevitable part of life, a journey that each one of us embarks upon from the moment we are born. However, the way we...

Anniversaries are both promising and yet can be provocative. Some folks celebrate or feel sad, uncomfortable or keen to share. This one...

As the frosty breath of the new year lingers, I find myself eagerly embarking on my first semi-serious cycle journey of 2025. The route...

There`s a real pleasure to be had in having come up with something original and definitive. Certain national authorities on the subject...

This strange urge imposed itself the other day—my relationship with Glasgow. Words like dichotomy and strained appeared quickly, but then...

Of course, you’ve heard all about New Year resolutions and that kind of optimistic stuff, that just doesn’t quite pan out as intended....

"This is the town's young people from about fifty-plus years ago – though all in our sixties now and scattered across the globe. We've...

So saying, that’s me condemned to some kind of PC purgatory, or worse. Perhaps? But ha`d oan a minute, I can explain, and it's all OK!...

“ Why do you hate football so much? ” my granddaughter asked the other day—a perfectly reasonable question. “You are a bit weird,”  she...

It's hard for us to imagine girls and young women being sentenced to silence, with no public avenue for communication. But that’s exactly...

Firstly, please imagine what life would be like here in the UK - for just about everyone in the land, were it not for charities. Think of...

Change and controversy seem to bring out both the best and sadly worst in folk. A good, measured debate is often the last thing on...

There`s a long approach road that branches off westwards in Laggan village, just along from the bridge over the great River Spey. Each...

If you want a job done, ask a busy person , is an oft-used quip in the charity sector. Seems an unlikely one, doesn’t it? But experience...

It must have been the way he said it that lit the spark. When Ezekiel Katato, Maasai Elder from Kajiado in Kenya was visiting Scotland a...

I can't quite recall what set me on this track, so perhaps it`ll just remain a mystery, but what has emerged from that spark of interest...

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