As part of her Many Voices project, Arusa Qureshi speaks to industry figures in Scotland to hear their thoughts on diversity and the inclusion of underrepresented voices in their respective fields The ...

This weekend, non-Orthodox Christians will mark the feast of Pentecost, a liturgical recalling of one New Testament post-resurrection story in which the Holy Spirit manifests as a rushing wind, and ...

An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the ...

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Gemma Smith continues her midge-bitten and cleg-infested journey through history and landscape, taking in Coco Channel and Ivan Illich, in a search for the forgotten and the mislaid of the highlands.

In the run-up to Burns Night, we’ll be publishing poetry and commentary on all things Bardic. Here’s the Makar, Pàdraig MacAoidh, in conversation with the former Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Lorna ...

The Scottish Government’s decision to issue a wholesale bond is guaranteed to create all the wrong headlines at exactly the wrong time. Last week, I issued a report with Jim Osborne of the Scottish ...

I talked to the writer, podcaster and musician Bram E Gieben about his new book The Darkest Timeline and what it means to “live in a world with no future”. You can listen to his podcast Strange Exiles ...

The esteemed journalist Peter MacMahon wrote this week in The Times: “Picture the scene: a bright, crisp afternoon in Edinburgh’s New Town. Three podiums are set out in Charlotte Square. Out of a ...

There’s an ongoing debate about which piece of dystopian sci-fi you are living in. The traditional favourites are Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World or George ...

Scotland: you are about to be bribed and lied to by some very very desperate people. The idea that the people that have failed by selling you a visionless campaign of cultural self-hatred, reactionary ...

A man who is widely thought to be in the running for becoming the next Prime Minister of the UK has just set out a five-year plan, which would include tearing up human rights laws and sending people ...