Scottish Delicacies

Not much time this morning. This should fill a space though……..

In the Days Before Health and Safety Ruled….

This isn’t one of those famous New York photos from the 1920s. This is two workmen on the Red Road flats in North Glasgow in the 1960s. I’m feeling dizzy. (Thanks Jamie O’Rourke)

The Champions League Final

It was a bit Messi wasn’t it?

Gil Scott Heron R.I.P.

I had a couple of blog free days over the weekend so this is the first opportunity I’ve had to mark the passing of Gil Scott Heron who combined blues,hip hop, rap, soul and poetry in a forty year plus career. The Scottish papers over the weekend played up Heron’s connection to Scotland via his [...]

The Financial Rapture?

There’s an economist in America called Martin Armstrong. It is fair to say that Armstrong has had an interesting career path, one which saw him being fêted in 1990 as the USA’s top economist, to his arrest in 1999 on (massive) fraud charges. Despite never having had a criminal trial, Armstrong was only released from [...]

The Weekend Waits – For a Commercial!

This week we look at the curious relationship Tom has with advertising. He doesn’t do it. In fact he speaks out against it all the time and even successfully sued the makers of Doritos for over $2 million for using a soundalike. So then how do we explain these? Exhibit 1 is Tom’s song Heart [...]

Great Singer- Great Song

Clare Teal with Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars.

So THAT’S Why they Call it the Special Relationship!

Or is it the ‘essential relationship’ noo?

Stampede!

Indeed a double helping of AnElephantCant. I held an editorial meeting with him last night and it was one short of our usual half gallon of ale. First up was his view on a smuggler who had been caught with live rare animals in his suitcase: Animal smuggling AnElephantCant condone animal smuggling He thinks this [...]

Maxwell’s Tartan Ribbon

For some reason I’m already thinking of two Beatles related songs, namely Maxwell’s Silver Hammer and Ringo Starr’s Photograph. I wonder if you know that last week (17th May) was the 150th anniversary of the first colour photograph? I wonder if you know that James Clerk Maxwell a Scottish scientist was involved in this pioneering [...]