Pandemic Past and Present

Pandemic Past and Present

We are in a time of nervous anticipation as scientists and governments race to produce and deliver vaccines for each new mutation of the virus, to deliver to a global population of over 7 billion people.

The Outlander Effect

The Outlander Effect

The thing about the Outlander phenomenon that I think needs to be acknowledged is that it is not really new, and that it is essentially conservative and of course, reductive. The first popular romanticising of the Scottish Highlands in novels can be attributed to Walter Scott.