Burns a bipolar bard

He may have lived more than 200 years ago but still we are learning more about our national bard. Robert Burns left behind such a rich body of work that there is always something else to discover.

New research has revealed the great author may have suffered from what we would now describe as bipolar disorder.

A genius he may well have been but, as the new study reminds us, a man’s a man for a’ that.