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When I posted about the myth of Pandora, ten days ago, I was writing with specific reference to AI and the fact that, if the media are to be believed, it is already out of control. I didn’t spell this … Continue reading
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At the start of our journey to France, nearly a month ago now, we stayed for a few nights with my eldest daughter, who lives in mid-Wales. Sophie is a silversmith, a celebrant, and a healer who works mainly with … Continue reading
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For the next five-plus weeks, this is my office. We got here at the end of last week after an exhausting ten days packing up the house for AirBnB guests, followed immediately by a two-week, 2,000-mile road trip, visiting family … Continue reading
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Although we leave for France today, I had intended to write something yesterday, come what may. The habit has become strong since I started these regular posts again. Missing a week feels not only like a dereliction of duty, but … Continue reading
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Sometimes it feels too difficult to write this blog. I am tired and over-stretched. Events, major and minor, have been piling in over the last few weeks. Right now I have a swarm of half-formed thoughts buzzing at the edge … Continue reading
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Back in March I wrote about our sister city Asheville, North Carolina (here), and the bestselling American novelist and Asheville resident, Elizabeth Kostova, who was here in Birnam and Dunkeld on a two-month writing residency. Last week, before she returned … Continue reading
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In a city centre park in Asheville, North Carolina, there is a signpost with markers indicating six Sister Cities around the world. One of these points to Dunkeld and Birnam (3808 miles). I live there. Dunkeld and Birnam is not … Continue reading
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I’ve been listening to the 2025 BBC Reith Lectures, given by Rutger Bregman, the young Dutch historian who became an international sensation in 2019 after standing up at the Davos World Economic Forum and berating a room full of billionaires for … Continue reading
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Growing up in Scotland in the 1950s and 1960s, Scots was, unsurprisingly, the language I was most likely to hear when I set foot outside the family home. This was the Scots of rural Perthshire where we lived, one of … Continue reading
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