Monday, September 15, 2008

Another column for the New Statesman website

I write a fortnightly column - "Calder's Comfort Farm" - for the New Statesman's website.

The latest one was posted this morning. It discusses, among other things, Alistair Darling's holiday on Lewis:

Swings are chained up on Sundays lest children imperil their immortal souls by playing. Nor does the local television station help. Last time I was there, peak-time viewing was a programme in Gaelic about a poet who emigrated to Canada and then died. That sort of thing wows them in Stornoway but can have done little to lighten Darling’s mood.

1 comment:

  1. Stop peddling ancient inaccuracies. You are so keen to run the place down and atempt humour, you care little for truth and facts. No swings are chained up on Sundays - not for 10 years anyway. There is no local TV station.
    Do you mean BBC Scotland or Scottish TV? Hardly local, numbskull.

    Stornoway resident.

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