Monthly Archives: Nov 2021

My interview with Julia Pannell of isp.scot and Bruce Hosie of the blog grumpyscottishman.wordpress.com (21 November 2021)

Interview with James Douglass laying out a version of John F. Kennedy’s assassination that is sickening, in every way outrageous, but not exactly unfamiliar. In JFK and the Unspeakable Douglass makes it the story a plot inside the national security apparatus and the Central Intelligence Agency to kill the president and stop his turn toward peace, toward endingContinue reading “JFK and the Unspeakable”

The train leaves at 7.26am from Copenhagen. Thanks to the Great Belt tunnel and bridge you now travel direct to Hamburg. There’s no need to disembark anymore, the ferries between Sjaelland and Fyn stopped sailing years ago. The Danish IC train continues across the middle island, over another bridge to Jutland, and down through historicContinue reading “Passport”

October 31st and I’m cycling in North Sjaelland. The mix of autumn chill and burning wood stoves evokes one of those scent memories. Across the decades ma auld Glesga maw appears in my mind’s eye. Perhaps appropriate on ‘Samhain’, our day of the dead. The mental image of ma maw conjured up was at Meadowpark.Continue reading “A Scent of Scotland”

I fell asleep in the early hours of 24 of June 2016 listening to the BBC’s all-night Brexit coverage. In spite of the British state broadcaster’s clear pro-leave bias during the campaign, I felt pretty sure the UK would, as a state, choose to remain in the EU. This is certainly what I’d been tellingContinue reading “Citizenship”

Copenhagen has snazzy cycle lanes, but tourists who don’t make it further than the (very) Little Mermaid might be surprised to find that Danish cycling infrastructure extends across the country, often connecting small rural towns. This is the cycle route between Humlebaek, north of Copenhagen, and Fredensborg. It’s a journey of about 10km, which youContinue reading “Rural Cycling Infrastructure”