My sister sent me a map. Satellite image. Calton and Bridgeton, Glasgow. She had marked it with blue dots — streets where our ancestors lived. Dirt poor, many of them. The kind of people history ...

Ten years after Brexit, everybody is angry. The age of democracy has metamorphosised into the age of force. The concept of International Law as set out by the United Nations – peace, dignity and ...

This text has been adapted from a talk given at the conference Community, Resistance and Resilience: Celebrating 50 Years of The Making of the Crofting Community, which took place at UHI Centre for ...

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Borrowed Land by Kapka Kassabova (Jonathan Cape, 2026) reviewed by Rob Gibson. This is a crucial time in the global struggle to tackle climate chaos, where landscapes are affected by new electricity ...

I don’t know what was the greater stroke of genius; getting Taylor Swift to do the theme song or releasing Toy Story 5 the week that Sir Keir Starmer announced that the government are enacting a ban ...

The retrospective sanitisation of the Suffragettes’ movement and tactics is a warping of history used as an attack on democracy today. Donna McLean kicks off her new column investigating this week’s ...

Scottish voters dislike many things, we are told, because Scotland is apparently a nation of very fine haters. But perhaps what really irritates people here is not the truth, but the smugness with ...

The Traverse frames itself as a venue committed to ‘new ideas, conversations and new Scottish writing’, and to the belief that the arts sector needs ‘thoughtful and meaningful cultural commentary’.

In our ongoing tour of the best podcasts around, we visit Talk Media hosted by Stuart Cosgrove and Eamonn O’Neill. Check them out here: Talk Media This is ‘a weekly forensic analysis of how the media ...

Sellafield have withdrawn their application to the Environment Agency for abstraction and disposal of 40 cubic metres an hour of contaminated water into the Rivers Calder and Ehen for the next seven ...

Last month, a Haaretz-Libération investigation uncovered systems for building an army of avatars, developed by Israeli company BlackCore, including a smear campaign of a left-wing French candidate and ...