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Culture

Offices – and especially offices belonging to…

Offices – and especially offices belonging to trendy tech companies – increasingly aspire to be homes-away-from-home. It all started innocuously enough. A ping-pong table would appear in the old photocopier…

19 February 2026 ·
Culture

In Days Gone by

In days gone by, on the Isle of Skye, the lands were mostly shared between MacLeods and MacDonalds; Gaelic was the language of all work and social life; and the…

19 February 2026 ·
Culture

Even in These Troubling Times

Even in these troubling times, spare a thought for Jenny Gilruth MSP, appointed Transport Minister in January and, since 1 April, given ultimate responsibility for the management of a railway…

19 February 2026 ·
Culture

Not Liking the Water is One Thing

Not liking the water is one thing. Poisoning the well for everyone else is quite another. This seems to be the UK Government’s approach post-Brexit to the Erasmus programme, which…

19 February 2026 ·