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'He should be on every curriculum' - Kevin McKenna on Scotland's one literary icon

ON the third floor of a gloriously chaotic study in University Gardens in Glasgow mounds of books are defying the laws of precipitation. And so you tread softly lest your ponderous footfall might tip them over. Here bides Gerry Carruthers, professor of Scottish Literature and one of the world’s leading Robert Burns’ scholars, and we’re talking about Holy Wullie’s Prayer, the bard’s savage rebuke to hypocrisy and piety.

Kevin McKenna: We will need a hero like McGahey to defend workers from AI job losses

It was hardly surprising the prospect of someone like Mr McGahey being hung among the great figures of the Scottish establishment and former ruling classes might then have caused a frisson. He had been a lifelong communist committed to dismantling the societal structures that enriched and empowered many of those whose images adorned the National Galleries.