Share THIS week's Icon frequently plays burly, stern authority figures, and sometimes Santa Claus. Highly successful yet humble, he suffers still from imposter syndrome and is – ye ken – an opsimath. But we'll come to that later (as opsimaths tend to do).... See more
Share THIS week's Scottish Icon was a Broadway star and understudy to Barbra Streisand. She was also a secret habitué of the Barras. You may have read recently about the death of singer Lena Martell, announced on 5 October. Oddly enough, on skimming the n... See more
Share Making notes for this week's exposition, I wondered if was going to be a bit hard on the subject's posh background and attitude to wildlife. Then I found a Herald piece from 1990 and another from the Independent in 2014 and realised how diffident I ... See more
Making notes for this week's exposition, I wondered if was going to be a bit hard on the subject's posh background and attitude to wildlife. Then I found a Herald piece from 1990 and another from the Independent in 2014 and realised how diffident I was be... See more
Scotland is responsible for some terrible inventions - this could be the worst yet Scottish icons: Grand Theft Auto Scots stand accused of having given many awful things to the world: television, the telephone, the steam engine. But this week’s Icon is al... See more
