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Welcome to The Words Agency online

Let's start how we mean to go on. By having fun. Playing with thoughts, ideas and the means to express them lie at the heart of this venture. We're going to try to inform and entertain, while we provoke a few thoughts along the way. Join us for a chat, or a rant, or just to share.

Hollywood? Who needs it!

WHAT do you think would be more appealing... sitting alone in a room tapping away endlessly at a keyboard that always just seems to avoid saying what you intend it to say...

Whisky with a splash...

HOW do you get a business message out from a small island on the edge of the Atlantic to investors, enthusiasts and public sector agencies in Britain and around the world?Tarbert siteTarbert, Harris

Look, listen . . . and earn

OBSERVATION... it’s such a simple word, but the creativity and benefits that flow from its good use can be prodigious.

The Tsar who came to Scotland

WHAT could possibly connect the Russian despot Tsar Nicholas I, Holyrood’s very own Fiona Hyslop, Rabbie Burns, Napoleon, stolen kisses in a Borders wood and the mediaeval Scottish wordsmith Thomas The Rhymer?Tsar Nicholas ITsar Nicholas I: Devotee of Burns... and Moffat

How to stay ahead in the jungle

They were bigger than us, stronger, could run faster and you wouldn’t want to have met one on a dark night.

Get the words right ... or miss out

What price words? Well, a very high one if you get them wrong.

How it went from Bard to verse

Binge poetry was the order of the evening at the launch of Lesley Duncan’s new collection Images Not Icons Poems for our Times. The newspaper poetry editor was on fine form in front of an appreciative audience in the Boardroom of the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh regaling them with anecdotes from a compendium of experience in the Scottish press.