‘As part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘OPEN STAGES’ project, John Coutts has written ‘ SHAKESPEARE IN STIRLING’; in which the great poet and dramatist makes an undercover visit to Scotland as an English government agent. He visits the royal court in Castle, where King James VI is scheming to inherit the English throne. Subtitled ‘an unhistorical fantasy’, […]

  BAFFLED IN BETHLEHEM May 2010 They took my photograph beside That controversial wall.  Beneath the brutal sun we both Stood strong and straight and tall. A cross in white aslant on blue Marks the symbolic spot:  I posed beside a Saltire Sprayed by a left-wing Scot..  I hadn’t brought an aerosol And couldn’t even […]