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“... of civilisation, as Spengler had famously put it, over culture – has anything to say to us. Francis Dunlop and, one assumes, his publishers, Roger Scruton and Jessica Douglas-Home, have no doubts. Scheler, Dunlop suggests, was addressing ‘a political situation not unlike our own ... a breakdown of the old ...”

“... the first fire, and reservations continue to be voiced, notably by the Glasgow architect Alan Dunlop, a trenchant critic of the present regime at the school. But a Strategic Outline Business Case commissioned by the GSA concluded that reconstruction was viable – the walls remain largely intact – and in 2022 the art school launched a competition for a ...”

“... a non-posh, non-trendy Scottish schoolgirl: mum jeans, as we’d now call them, cowl-neck jumpers, Dunlop gymmies, not DMs or high-top trainers like everyone else. Her famous hair was fairish brown and bushy, as is common in Scotland, not yet smoothed down and glossed up. Her teeth were shocking: ‘tiny, crooked, full of gaps’, as she described them in an ...”

“... I wondered why nobody had looked him up.When I got home that evening I searched online for Dunlop Hill in Ballinasloe. ‘Dunlop hill is a hill in Dunlop, East Ayrshire,’ Google told me, but it also asked: ‘Did you mean: Dunlo Hill Ballinasloe?’ And I did, or rather ...”

“... Saturday nights which this woman remembered from her own childhood. She was the servant of Mrs Dunlop, to whom Burns wrote his most substantial letters and to whom his opinions were eventually to give offence, and she was suspicious of the poet. Ladies and gentlemen, she said, make much of this poem. But ‘I dinna see how he could hae tauld it ony other ...”

“... also gives a false impression of fixity in folklore, which is ever-changing and fuzzily bordered.Francis Young’s sweeping Fairies: A History provides a broader and more granular map of this bewildering world. Where Briggs wanted to bring order, imposing patterns on the chaos of lore, Young tells a story of perpetual metamorphosis. Briggs started from the ...”