Terry McDermott

Where I went on my holidays (II)

"In one case approved by an RTE committee consisting of a doctor, an ethicist and chaired by a lawyer, a boy aged between 16 and 18 who had autism, anxiety and depressive feelings was euthanised legally."

Alarming.

Barns Ness then Musselburgh. Beats working m'dear Ash

Ooft

Memories of Mary MacLeod, Donald Trump's mother live long on the Isle of Lewis. 'There’s a general gladness that Mary got on well. She left in very difficult circumstances and did well in marrying Fred Trump. People were genuinely pleased that she prospered."
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Who needs experts, eh?

I loved that job. Mostly!

This shocking 2013 story about Cardinal O'Brien was the splash in the Scottish edition of The Times and followed up in the NYT - where it was read by a news editor in the London Times newsroom, who rang to ask me to follow up the story in the NYT. News editors, eh? www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...

"Take away my card tricks and my bitterness and there’s nothing left.”
A 2013 interview with Jerry Sadowitz. Worth a read. #comedy
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Here's a 2010 interview with the poet John Burnside, who had just published a memoir of his infatuation with a teenage girl. Tbh, we didn't get on. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p....

#BookSky #Books. Access to The Times website is free this weekend.

'There was terrible harassment. It is difficult for men to see a girl do better than them. It wasn’t a healthy atmosphere.' Worth reading to the end of this piece from Nepal for the story of Mamta Dhawan, a vet who overcame shocking sexism to pursue her career. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...

I took a tour of Edinburgh's seamier side with Ian Rankin, the top-selling crime novelist: "The police had names for the Cowgate when it got like this: Little Saigon; the blood bank; Hell on Earth." From 2009 #BookSky

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In this interview with Eric Trump from August, he considers whether he or Lara, his wife, could be president? 'I could do the political thing ... I just don’t know if I’d choose to do it. Lara would absolutely do it. She’s beautiful. She’s smart. She’s tough.'
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I've followed Donald Trump in Scotland for almost 20 years. When he was just a humble business tycoon, he threw me out of a one-to-one interview; yet he'd take my calls in Trump tower & rang me one Friday evening when I was in a boozer. He's one of two things:

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Highlanders and Islanders in Scotland regard the Edinburgh parliament as "distant, arrogant and unaccountable". This is from a year or two ago, but as relevant today as it was then.

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