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9 January, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘Isle of Bute’

The Media vs. the Mid-Summer Doldrums

By Denis Campbell • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Features
It isn’t Alien vs. Predator, but it’s close. You thought that this summer’s blockbuster was Batman? Hancock? Kung Fu Panda? Nope. This summer the talking media heads have had little real work, so making it up as they go along seems the way to go.
We’ve seen befuddled AARP poster child John McCain’s repeated flip-flops, dumb [...]


Toward Point Lighthouse South of Dunoon

By Denis Campbell • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Features
This is a rugged coastal community on the Firth of Clyde, overlooking the Isle of Bute with the jagged crags of the Isle of Arran in the distance is a place where if your surname is discovered to be Campbell, you are treated coolly at best and with open hostility at worse. So this week [...]