Mark Smith is a former diplomat and policy adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). He spent his ...

The title comes from a famous (or used-to-be famous) book written by George Dangerfield, and published in 1935. The book ...

Just recently the appalling death count in Gaza was revised upwards. The Gazan journalist/writer Hamza Yusuf wrote: “The ...

Labour’s Anas Sarwar said he was open to working with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK ‘on a case-by-case basis’ to become First ...

Before DeepSeek, the France AI Action Summit to be held in Paris from February 10 – 11, already looked like it would make ...

Jason Hickel on how colonialism never ended and drives today’s extreme inequality. To coincide with the launch of Oxfam’s Davos 2025 report, Takers, not Makers, here is ...

Paul Malgrati is a Franco-Scottish Lecturer of Northern Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands. He is the ...

Much has been made of the ever-shifting rightwards Labour party under Sir Keir Starmer, see the latest here (Blue Labour v ...

The decision to approve a giant new oilfield off Scotland has been ruled unlawful by the courts – an outcome that campaigners ...

Scottish sci-fi feature film ‘2000 and leave us alone’ is the brainchild of artist and filmmaker Danny McConnell. It’s set in ...

There’s an interesting post by Ballot Box Scotland that has gone missing from many timelines, including, initially my own.

As Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay attempts to emulate his ridiculous predecessor with a sick joke: “Was ...