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I wrote in my last blog on Friday about how angry I am with the result of the European Referendum. A lot of people are. And are looking fo...

Excepting days involving personal family loss, today has been the worst day of my entire life. I just can't quite believe what has hap...

Introduction I wrote this blog in almost its entirety last Wednesday night intending to give it a final once over before publishing it on...

                                                                                   The calling of St Matthew. Caravaggio. San Luigi dei Fran...

We have just had a distinctively Scottish Election. The results are the results but, be in no doubt, it was won and lost in Scotland. Ne...

You'll have noticed that I didn't do any blogging during the election. As always I voted Labour, although more than in hope than in ...

For ages I've been writing a book. It is a "caper" tale, set in Vienna and then Venice in the 1880s. It will probably never be...