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By The Jouker A reporter for a right-wing news website is outraged after being blocked by Nicola Sturgeon's Twitter account MUCH on social media remains a mystery. How exactly is it changing the way we think? Is it reflecting or determining the way we vote? Why has no-one told Alan Sugar to stop tweeting? Not everything, however, is unclear. Take the example of the journalist that works for Guido Fawkes – a right-wing news site – who’s been blocked by Nicola Sturgeon’s Twitter account. Christian Calgie, who made the ann...

James Fairbairn is tissue testing all his arable crops to supplement minor nutrients when they are needed and so he harvests more consistent yields on his

Burns night has been and gone, but poetry is for every night, and day. It’s a source of solace, comfort and cheer in difficult times like this current pandemic and lockdown So here, to help you through, are twenty of Scotland’s greatest poets, who aren’t Robert Burns. William Dunbar (circa 1459-1530) “Back to Dunbar!” was a favourite phrase of Hugh MacDiarmid, and the man he was talking about was a Middle Scots poet attached to the court of James IV, who wrote works that were rhetorical and lyrical marvels. Dunbar was one of a group of medieval Scots known as the “makars” an...

Burns night has been and gone, but poetry is for every night, and day. It’s a source of solace, comfort and cheer in difficult times like this current pandemic and lockdown So here, to help you through, are twenty of Scotland’s greatest poets, who aren’t Robert Burns. William Dunbar (circa 1459-1530) “Back to Dunbar!” was a favourite phrase of Hugh MacDiarmid, and the man he was talking about was a Middle Scots poet attached to the court of James IV, who wrote works that were rhetorical and lyrical marvels. Dunbar was one of a group of medieval Scots known as the “makars” an...

A BORDERS woman is using her experiences of endometriosis to help others in the region. The menstrual condition causes endometrium – tissue similar to that lining the womb – to grow away from the uterus. Tao McCready, of Selkirk, was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2017 and created the Borders Endometriosis Support Group in 2019. “I very quickly realised there was nothing in the Borders to support people,” she said. Endometriosis affects one in 10 people, but the condition is not widely discussed, says Tao. “People don’t see us," she said. “They think the pain is on...