My place on this earth Passion and scandal collide at the heart of Scottish politics Paul McInnes moved to London twenty years ago for work and adventure. When his wife wanted to go back to New Zealand and he didn’t, they knew it was over. Forty-three and coming to terms with his single life, it’s […]

The kumara harvest I remember how, when I was young, we would go to the sea. It took four hours in the car. I remember how I used to get excited when we reached it for the first time. I still recall that feeling, though now I see it every day. I remember […]

Strangers The more we fixate on what we feel we can’t do, the less able we are to do it. A ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ the book on self-confidence he had once read called it. The book didn’t help. He understood all of that but knowing and acting are not the same thing. […]

Starlight and loneliness Michael White spent six months in the South of France. Flights and accommodation all paid for and his living costs heavily subsidised, he should have been happy. But he wasn’t. “Fucking stifling” was how he put it when his old mate Dean emailed him. Michael White has been the face […]