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I’M preparing for my first ever authentic Burns Supper. I’d been to a few of these in London but it was mainly expat Scots from the banking…

Greenwich's famous Cutty Sark is getting a new figurehead, with its iconic 'Nannie' carving being replaced today.

Scotland's most famous poet almost relocated to the Caribbean Credit: Getty If Robert Burns had got his way we might celebrate Burns Night by eating rice and peas and jerk chicken – perhaps with a ginger beer or a Red Stripe – rather than haggis, neaps and a dram. The tough lot of a farmer’s son and, later, as a tenant farmer, and the birth of no fewer than three illegitimate daughters in the space of a year, led Burns to seriously contemplate voyaging to the Caribbean to try his luck over there. Chances are, if he’d made the break and lived a colonial’s life in the sultry tropics, ...