Airticles tagged “Society”
O pigs and dugs: what for dae we treat them sae different?
Frae ben the cage, throu metal bars, the mither pig ettles at nursin her piglets. It’s in her naitur tae hain and big nests for her little anes, but she cannae dae it: the cage she’s steekit in is nae bigger nor her ain body. She can juist aboot staund up and lay doun, but the’re nae wey o turnin aboot.
Democracy and trans richts
I’m aye sweirt tae breinge in anent maiters that I dinna consíder mysel an expert in, but I need tae scrieve a bit aboot the dingin doun o Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform bill by the UK government. For tae evite ony dout as tae the subject o the bill itsel: I’m for the reforms. A hunder per cent. Like maist fowk, and like wi ony bill, I mebbe deh ken …
Frae the archives: Christmas buyin
I wis rakin aboot the British Newspaper Archive and fund a wheen columns frae the early-tae-mid 20t century anent Christmas shoppin. Thocht yese micht enjoy readin them. In the first airticle, frae the 25 Dezember 1947 Forfar Dispatch, we hear aboot Mary Ann and the scriever gaun their Christmas shoppin. Gaun by the notices she dictates tae gae alang wi her praisents, this Mary Ann soonds like quite the character. …
This laund wis wrocht for you an me: hou the ootdoors community will benefit fae repeoplin
The anely aye-bidin thing in life is chynge. Thon’s a truism that the past year an a hauf haes made us aw a bittie ower famíliar wi, in weys baith guid an ill. But chynge raxes ayont the stramash o wir ain lifes forby, bein as deeply rootit in naitur as the things it touches, fae the blimmin o the yellae whins on the braes tae the broun hairst leafs …
Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun
Frae here at ma desk ah can see richt doun ontae Hawick high street. It’s ten weeks noo syne ah left the hoose for ony ither reason than tae tak the bins oot, but ah get ma vicarious kicks in ither weys. A single loun ploddin throu the rain wi a Kwik Save cairier bag is a mystery ye could scry intae for decades. Cyclists swerve tae the opposite sides …