Scotland

Earlier this month, a confidential government commissioned report concerning university tuition fees was released. Entitled ‘Funding Irish Higher Education: A Virtuous Circle of Investment, Quality and Verification,’ the report suggested…

Extinction is bad news for parasites, too Species extinction doesn’t just mean loss of biodiversity of host species; it spells out bad news for parasites, too. In fact, in certain parasite-host network structures, the loss of the host…

It’s a common misnomer to refer to William Burke and William Hare as "body snatchers". A body snatcher is one who steals a dead body to sell for profit, but they never stole a body - one they "inherited", and the rest they made themselves.…

‘Modern’ is a word of soapy slipperiness that means different things to different people. The values it carries vary too; for some, seeking to be modern is an inherently noble aspiration while for others the very word is an…

I first penned this ensconced in a creaking fifty-year-old chair in a pub in Dornoch, Scotland. My host was Keith, and I'd a half pint of McEwan's 80 Shilling in front of me. I had already been to the bog twice to drain off the previous…

James Stuart thought he was better than you. This isn’t a base slander on my part, this was his honest academic opinion. In The True Law of Free Monarchies, James explains that kings (such as himself) had been chosen by God to rule over…