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  • Everybody loves the sunshine…with a little cooling breeze

    Everybody loves the sunshine…with a little cooling breeze

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    “Just bees, and things and flowers” Like a lot of formerly news-hungry journalists these days I can hardly bear to open the many journals I subscribe to. But earlier this year I  read the FT’s Life of a Song. And Roy Ayers Sunshine blew Trump thunderstorms away.  

  • The future is in our pockets

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    The philosopher’s toe: pictures by Andrea McCarthy Looking back it was a prophetic moment though I did not know it at the time. Almost 14 years ago I covered a Scottish Enterprise conference on the future of Scotland. US futurist Joe Coates, grey and spindly as a heron, stalked the stage and talked about the…

  • No mess, just hope

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    The National Portrait Gallery is plastered with graffiti. Empty shops fill with art, music and dance. Subversive signposts undermine the shopping mall. Bright paint covers a grey tenement. Could be the stuff of nightmares for some but to me it is like a dream come true. Ever since I first visited Berlin I have wanted…