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Kathleen Jamie is the fourth person to hold the title and takes over from poet Jackie Kay.

POET and essayist Kathleen Jamie has been appointed Scotland’s next Makar.

SCOTLAND today is in a moment of generational shift, and a moment of re-evaluation of our position within the Union. For those of us in our…

TO be fair to John Swinney, he scarcely craved the education remit in the first place. When told in 2016, his instinctive private reaction was: “But I do the money!” He had, indeed, been a notably successful Finance Secretary for nine years, skilfully balancing the budget, even when the SNP lacked a majority. Still, Nicola Sturgeon had declared that education was her top priority. As her deputy, he could hardly jib at addressing that objective. It has not ended well. Partly, he may ...

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True West Magazine The highest ranking American Indian in the U.S. Cavalry was General Ely Parker, an Iroquois from Indian Falls, New York. His hopes for a career were stymied because he was an Indian until he made the acquaintance of Lewis Henry Morgan who helped him gain admission to study engineering at Rensselaer Polytech Institute at Troy, New York. He graduated with a degree in civil engineering. As an engineer he contributed to several upgrades on the Erie Canal. While working as a super...

Apollo. Preview and subscribe here.  ‘Life is at its most uninhibited here,’ Joan Eardley said of Townhead, then a slum in the centre of Glasgow. The painter, who was born 100 years ago this month, set up her studio there in 1949, fresh from her studies at Glasgow School of Art. Though she spent long spells in Catterline, an impoverished fishing village on the east coast, south of Aberdeen, Eardley would maintain a studio in Townhead until her premature death from breast cancer in 1963, a...

Alex Salmond says Scottish Parliament is full of numpties as he backs Holyrood second chamber EXCLUSIVE: The former First Ministers outburst will be seen as a criticism of the SNP. 09:15, 15 APR 2021 Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these news...

In the introduction to his 1952 translation of Beowulf, the Scottish poet Edwin Morgan ventured that in translation ‘communication must take place; the nerves must sometimes tingle and the skin flush, as with original poetry’. Morgan’s aim was to ‘interest and at times to excite the reader of poetry without misleading anyone who has no access to the original’. Fidelity and accuracy are all well and good, but a true translation must speak to the reader. It must connect in a way that ...

Alex Salmond inquiry shows why Scottish Parliament needs more power, not less, if it is to avoid becoming Edwin Morgans nest of fearties – Murdo Fraser MSP Giving evidence to the parliamentary committee investigating the Scottish government’s handling of harassment complaints against him, former First Minister Alex Salmond was damning of the state of leadership across pubic institutions in Scotland. Tuesday, 2nd March 2021, 4:45 pm Alex Salmond makes his opening statement to the Scottish P...