Hamish Macpherson News Today

It’s one of the defining charisms of Scottish nationalism that it seeks to embrace the gifts bestowed by the people of other cultures and races.

THE huge numbers of

LET us hope that Andrea Bradley of the EIS is right and the teachers’ strike is averted, but all union negotiators need to remember that although…

I BREATHED a massive sigh of relief that Emmanuel Macron won the French election. Not because if I was French I would vote for him, but that it…

FURTHER to Brian Lawson’s long letter on Mar 31 about standing charges, let me share the response I received from my electricity supplier when I…

FIRST Minister’s Questions on Thursday heard the Conservative opposition call for mass vaccinating centres across the country in an effort to…

WHEN travelling south to Edinburgh many years ago with my wife and two young boys, we stopped at the Old Mill in Blair Atholl for a break. The…

I ENJOYED reading Hamish MacPherson’s article in favour of removing the Not Proven verdict from Scots law, but it appears to me that he has not…

Bobby Cunning (left) bidding farewell to Jackie Cox, Hamilton manager, before signing for Rangers. EVER since he could kick a ball, Bobby Cunning had wanted to play for Rangers. So Scot Symon made the young Hamilton Academicals striker a very happy man when he signed him for the ibrox club in September 1954. Bobby’s grandson Jamie got in touch to tell us: “Scot Symon became the manager of Rangers FC in 1954 and his first signing was my grandpa. It took place in the Central Hotel and t...

PEOPLE are queueing up to be part of Times Past...