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What I saw at the Edinburgh festivals
Here’s my round-up of what I saw at the world’s biggest arts festival in the past month. I’ve lived in Edinburgh for almost four decades and it still astonishes me that for four weeks every year I can...
Jaggy Thistle shortlisted for Scotland’s leading essay prize
A singer at the Keith Folk Festival, as featured in the Jaggy Thistle essay One Handful of Earth. Credit: Kenny Farquharson
I’m delighted to report that The Jaggy Thistle has been shortlisted for one of Scotland’s most prestigious writing...
A torchlight procession of one
Hugh MacDiarmid, by Robert Heriot Westwater. Credit: National Galleries Scotland
A low mist lies on the Peebleshire hills. The morning air is still. At Brownsbank Cottage the garden is overgrown and the gate is unhinged. Looking out over t...
A rare opportunity for radical change
Labour party election poster from 1929. Credit: Labour
Usually at this time of the year we are slap-bang in the middle of the silly season. Most politicians and lobby hacks are sunning themselves on a beach somewhere. There is no news. Ne...
Jaggy Thistle featured in The New York Times
Yes, I was surprised too
A few weeks ago I wrote a Jaggy Thistle post about Andy Burnham’s dress sense. I coined the term “Andycore” for Burnham’s smart-casual approach to political menswear. And I set out the seven rules of Andycore, from...
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Columnist, The Times. Editor, The Jaggy Thistle. Orwell Fellow. I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king.
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