No, not a tribute to the Bard and his call for egalitarianism in his revolutionary poem A Man's A Man For A' That, although we increasingly look forward to the day when this ghastly, dysfunctional, unrepresentative, sense-of-entitlement "government" in London...

Greetings from Leith at the turn of the year. For several years now I have been saying that publication of my book should happen in the year ahead; although it has become slightly embarrassing to be wrong so often, I don't mind the delay so much because the whole...

Another opportunity to celebrate all things Scottish. This year there's a serious attempt to reclaim the flag - the Saltire - from the separatists and the SNP. St Andrew was crucified on a diagonal cross, poor chap, and was buried. Later, when the burial site was...