Absorbing what passes for commentary about the astonishing moment that has just passed, in which the putative leader of ...

This is from Drilled. The Drilled podcast, launched in 2017, now has an audience of more than one million listeners worldwide, and is consistently among the top 100 science podcasts ...

In the aftermath of yesterday’s high drama with Anas Sarwar’s thwarted attempt to dethrone the Prime Minister, it’s worth looking at where we are and what it means for Scottish ...

This is an email I’ve just written and sent to every Edinburgh City Councillor who tomorrow will make one of the most momentous decisions in the city’s planning history. If you subscribe to Edinburgh ...

More on the #ScottishCensus2022. Some good news for Gaelic. The census shows us that: 2.5% of people aged 3+ had some skills in Gaelic in 2022. This is an increase of 43,100 since 2011. The percentage ...

A review of the year, sort of. 2025: a quarter into the 21C. Here we are. Even the work of remembering, reflecting, or reviewing feels like an odd thing to do. Not subversive but somehow meaningful in ...

Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by AVI SHLAIM In this book Avi Shlaim places Israel’s policy towards the Gaza Strip under an uncompromising lens. He argues that recurrent attacks – ...

The Scottish Languages Act passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament this week is the most important language legislation for Gaelic in twenty years and the first ever for the Scots language. The ...

This podcast grounds Trump in American historical context and presents the present regime as the manifestation of a long tradition of violence rather than an abberation.

The ‘conversation’ on a united Ireland is now constant, whether its wanted or not. Despite unionists and others saying campaigning for a border poll is not appropriate, nationalists continue to push ...

Liam O Hare on the deep connections between Cambridge Analytica’s parent company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL Group) and the Conservative Party and military establishment, ‘Board members ...