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Essays and commentary from The Scottish Review.
Sinner on the slow clay: a career grand slam at twenty-four, with the only obstacle his own absence
Fraser Lindsay · 2026-05-22
Premier League final day: how a single Sunday rewrites Britain's biggest sporting account
Eilidh Tait · 2026-05-22
Swinney's second term: the questions a thinner majority cannot dodge
Catriona MacLeod · 2026-05-20
Coercive control, eight years on: what this week's sentencing actually proves
Niamh Buchanan · 2026-05-19
Paisley Book Festival 2026: 'Everyday Heroes' finds its accidental hero
Eilidh Tait · 2026-05-19
The IMF tells Threadneedle Street to consider cutting. Threadneedle Street is divided.
Hamish MacGregor · 2026-05-18
'Take action' is fine, if the action is funded
Iain Crawford · 2026-05-17
Scottish seafood at the Barcelona expo: confidence, paperwork and the £1bn question
Hamish MacGregor · 2026-05-16
Reform's 17 MSPs and the crisis on Scottish unionism's right
Catriona MacLeod · 2026-05-15
Thirty-seven Bills, one parliamentary year, and the limits of an ambitious legislative theatre
Fraser Lindsay · 2026-05-14
Holyrood 2026: coalition maths after the May elections
Catriona MacLeod · 2026-05-11
Aberdeen's energy transition: the jobs numbers nobody wants to argue with
Hamish MacGregor · 2026-05-06
Edinburgh Fringe 2026: the venue availability crisis nobody at the Society wants to call by its name
Eilidh Tait · 2026-05-01
Scotland's NHS workforce pipeline: the shortfall the workforce plan does not close
Niamh Buchanan · 2026-04-28
UKGC vs offshore: what Scottish players need to know in 2026
Iain Crawford · 2026-04-23
Scottish Cup final 2026 and the Old Firm question that won't go away
Eilidh Tait · 2026-04-17
Why Bizum and offshore casinos are in the UK news in 2026
Hamish MacGregor · 2026-04-12
Winter on Mull: where January finds you
Fraser Lindsay · 2026-04-04
Back in 1995, the was a paper journal founded and edited by the remarkable…
Anthony Seaton · 2023-11-30
Many years ago Sir Alec Guinness appeared in the West End production of John…
Arnold Kemp Monthly · 2023-09-22
I guess we all have a hot topic: a burning issue or area that furrows our…
Bill Magee · 2023-06-07
The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil , Bill Paterson responds with…
Bill Paterson · 2023-05-06
Covid is still around, proving difficult to shrug off
Bill Magee · 2023-04-05
I heard it again, this time with respect to the problems of the NHS
Anthony Seaton · 2023-01-29
I suspect that many of you have had, appropriately during the season of…
Anthony Seaton · 2023-01-29
The word is attractive to those of a conservative frame of mind, especially…
Anthony Seaton · 2022-12-02
Sir David Butler, the great political scientist and psephologist, has died…
Alastair Osborne · 2022-11-30
It was in the back room of the Hare and Hounds in Islington that I first met…
Bill Paterson · 2022-11-23
Nor any drop to drink
Anthony Seaton · 2022-10-01
We dreaded the arrival of the telegraph boy on his bicycle who only brought…
Anthony Seaton · 2022-08-08
It must have been taken in the 1880s – it set off a train of thoughts
Anthony Seaton · 2022-07-05
Clever ideas reinforcing our reputation for sheer ingenuity just requiring to…
Bill Magee · 2022-06-05
There is a fifth element of the environment that is sometimes forgotten as it…
Anthony Seaton · 2022-01-27
Review: Landmarks: Hugh MacDiarmid: The Brownsbank Years
Andrew Hook · 2022-01-26
I hadn't seen John for almost 40 years
Alastair Osborne · 2022-01-19
Perhaps this explains the attitudes of some parliamentarians
Anthony Seaton · 2021-10-19
The German occupation of Norway ends after five years on May 8 1945
Alastair Osborne · 2021-10-06
Have you dipped into recently?
Bill Magee · 2021-06-19
I heard the news standing in a chippy in Renfrew
Alan McIntyre · 2021-06-19
How the city has changed!
Anthony Seaton · 2021-04-15
He had previously founded Schule Schloss Salem in Germany in the 1920s until…
Allan Shiach · 2021-03-16
Dr Martens boots, her brother's jackets and cardigans 10 times too big for her
Amy Campbell SSYWY · 2021-03-08
It's fast approaching 100 years since the discovery of insulin
B Magee C Holme · 2021-01-26
In the past, British children's books featured little violence
Bill Paterson · 2021-01-22
We are all thinking about how best to have a safe Christmas
Alastair Osborne · 2020-12-16
First do no harm: I hope it is still the case that all medical students have…
Anthony Seaton · 2020-12-02
Review: Shuggie Bain
Andrew Hook · 2020-11-01
This is the problem with economics; you can only generalise concerning the…
Bill Paterson · 2020-10-21
Dead Presidents don't tweet
Alan McIntyre · 2020-09-19
Fifty years ago, in 1970, the Glasgow Citizens Theatre for Youth devised and…
Bill Paterson · 2020-08-05
My abiding childhood memory of the little towns of Ayrshire was the variable…
Bill Jamieson · 2020-08-05
They withheld their usual partisan cheerleading as they contemplated having…
Bill Paterson · 2020-08-05
This was part of the opening of the Glenbuck Heritage Village, restored by…
Alastair Osborne · 2020-08-05
But until very recently, unlike millions of people worldwide, I'd never been…
Andrew Hook · 2019-11-18
She remained closely involved in the work of the clinic until her death in 1951
Barbara Millar · 2019-10-14
Shona and Luke had lived in Symington for almost two years now
Alastair Osborne · 2019-10-14
Review: Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps, A Life of John Buchan
Andrew Hook · 2019-08-18
I never met my father-in-law
Barbara Millar · 2018-06-27
Most of the other new students seemed equally nervous and excited, but most…
Bet Lowannalsa · 2018-06-27
A new year, but the conflict which has dominated world events for the past 60…
Alan Fisher Monthly · 2017-11-09
A mother's dying turns pain into poetry
Alan Fisher · 2015-06-05
14 March 2013
Alan Bissett · 2013-11-04