BLUEMOMENT

Why, thank you, Silkie. I can see that you are a man with some insight into the ways of the world. May I ask whether you are familiar with the works of C John Taylor? He wasn't just one of Scotland's outstanding artists, but he made an enormous impact in other cultural areas, particularly his poetry...

It's so easy, isn't it, to denigrate the memory of a great man and all round artist, who, sad to say, is no longer with us, and therefore not in a strong position to defend himself. It's true, he wasn't "hip", didn't smoke reefers, or use four-letter words in his poetry and songs. But he d...