I HAVE my personal inching away from the cliff edge of adult despair about nuclear weapons. It also, I believe, inches towards something that could be an effective politics or movement against them ...
I OPEN my singer’s mouth, and America comes out ...
ANOTHER day, another genderquake. This week, it’s been Kaukab Stewart MSP’s turn to genuflect to the binary merchants on the right-wing tabloids ...
THE first UK Budget of the new Labour Government is coming – and its contours will have a direct impact on the Scottish arts landscape ...
ARTIFICIAL intelligence: ultimate tool or ultimate threat? That’s the immediate question that the recent set of Nobel Prize winners raises for us ...
ENDORSED by more than 15,000 climate (and other) scientists and experts, the annual State Of The Climate report came out last week. “Perilous times on planet Earth” was the unambiguous title.
REMEMBER the “Barbenheimer” moment? When two significant movies are released in the same calendar slot, and between them seem to cover life/death, the universe and everything else?
IT’S a poor show for an English literature grad like myself (Class of ’85, Glasgow University), but I rarely have a novel going in my life. I have shelves filled with the natural, human and social sciences; with philosophy
SOMEWHAT like the spores they madly launch into the air, it’s curious how mushrooms (and the mycelial networks of which they are the fruit) drift into your life ...
DWELLING on 10 years since the indyref has driven me back 50 years – to the first time the idea of Scotland ever really made an imprint on a certain 10-year-old boy.
