Susan Dalgety
Susan Dalgety spent six months in Malawi from May 2019, interviewing scores of people and researching the country's history and its future prospects. During her stay, she filed a weekly 'Letter from Malawi' for The Scotsman. As the former head of communications for Lord McConnell, when he was First Minister of Scotland (2001-06), her first trip to Malawi was to set up the first official visit by the Scottish government, and help develop a bi-lateral co-operation agreement between the two countries, which remains in place today. She was previously chief writer on the Edinburgh Evening News, deputy leader of Edinburgh City Council and Director of Communication for Scottish Labour, as well as editor of the Wester Hailes Sentinel - Scotland's ground-breaking community newspaper during the 1980s and '90s. Her first book ‘The Spirit of Malawi’ published by LuathPress is now available.
Sturgeon on the hook
Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill promises a difficult year ahead for the woman who self-identifies as “feminist to my fingertips”
Labour’s Indian problem
The local elections suggest British Indians are drifting away from the Left
Women aren’t “womb-carriers”
How the left internalised the misogyny of the modern state
A successful account of the disastrous
When the Dust Settles is a record of an achingly human response to chaos and emergency
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible
De-Goulding: an incomplete coda
Part two of Mahan Esfahani’s deconstruction of the modern association of pianist Glenn Gould with Bach’s Goldberg Variations
Frustrating life of a man of ideas
We remain interested in Tocqueville because of the power of his thought, not his life story
Unhappy pilgrimage
The Church is on the move as Christians are “strategically driven” from their homes
Papa can you hear me?
Offering prayers for the government — God knows they need them
It’s grim down South
Rakib’s Britain: Never mind the Red Wall, let’s talk about the East-West divide and a forgotten England