Gregor Fisher is not, by his own admission, a particularly driven actor. “I think I was born naturally lazy,” he says. “I suspect that, if it weren’t for the occasional conversation with a bank manager saying ‘I think it’s time you banked with us as opposed to us banking with you’, I’d probably just be […]
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Remembering Quintinshill
Paul F Cockburn explores the memories of some of those who survived “the Railways’ Titantic” 100 years ago this month. Corporal Thomas Gleave was lucky. When he woke up in a Carlisle hospital, distraught and anxious parents by his bedside, he was surprised to learn that he had been unconscious for 10 days. But there […]
Myths and Legends
Star Trek the original series wasn’t afraid to borrow stories, ideas and characters from Classical Greece and Rome, from gods to gladiators – and the series was all the richer for it. I, TIBERIUS “My name is James Tiberius Kirk. Kirk because my father and his male forebears followed the old custom of passing on […]
Save the First Dance
More Gregg Wallace than Fred Astaire? Fear not. A few dance lessons are all you need to impress on the dancefloor, as Paul F Cockburn learns. Your wedding day is punctuated by a few key moments where all eyes are guaranteed to be on you and your new spouse: the ceremony, of course; the cake […]
Money Really Matters
“The diversity profile of the workforce across the professional services industry does not reflect society or our client base. We need to change and I believe a crucial part of achieving a meaningful shift is providing more transparency in the make-up of our current staff against where we would like to be. It means we […]
Scotland’s Rich Fossil Heritage
For a small country with an comparatively small population, Scotland’s often been praised for “punching above its weight”, not least when it comes to those inventions — from chloroform anaesthetic to the steam engine and Dolly the Sheep — that have helped shape the future. Yet Scotland has also played a significant role in our […]
Asteroid Nets
NASA’s latest space fishing trip aims to capture an asteroid and bring it closer to Earth to study. In June 2010, the Japanese Hayabusa probe succeeded in returning to Earth some dust samples from a distant, stoney asteroid known as 25143 Itokawa. Up to now, however, such missions have rarely been successful, not least because […]
