In August a usually staid British medical journal published a modest clinical case report to unusually great fanfare. Media worldwide took note of a “new” disease: bagpipe lung. The name of this novel ...

Bagpipes can conjure a sound of celebration, the lament of deepest mourning and bestow honor to presidents and princes. Known to pull pride or pain to the surface, the droning instrument is a ...

Former Downing Street communications chief Alastair Campbell has played a lament on the bagpipes for political figures who were involved in the Good Friday Agreement negotiations but have since died.

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