In the morning we pack the vans and leave the courtyard of Summerhall. The Airstream is re-attached, unattached and re-attached again as its underside scrapes over…

A new edition of The Economist magazine flashes on screen; the front cover shows a Scotsman, or at least a London journalist’s idea of one –…

The fear of the unknown and the excitement of the new are the same emotion, experienced only through different lenses and under different exposures of light….

On a leafy hilltop graveyard surrounded by streets, the words of a Jacobite commander mark the gateway to the Faw Kirk: “Tonight we will either lie…

The summer is interrupted by the Government showing its teeth north of the border. Military ceremonies and commemorations parade the strength, power and arsenal of the United Kingdom….

No natural feature has changed Scotland like the Clyde. It is the life source of a million or more people and is answerable to all the…

Two hours’ drive to Sanquhar. The Airstream trailer flashes green in the rear-view mirror as it passes under the eaves of woods, past boulders, ferns and…

Borderlands in every corner of the world are rich in history and culture; nations, ideas and ideologies collide or co-exist; they watch, conquer or co-operate. The…

When the engine starts and we leave the city, the air settles a little, and all that remains is to fulfil in action, outside, what has…