The Holyrood tech conference lights dimmed as keynote speaker Edward P Gibson took to the podium. The former FBI senior special agent and head of Microsoft UK, who I had…
Music as a creative force and all that this conjures up in terms of sheer elan has come to the fore in the hustle and bustle of modern life, where it’s far…
Younger Scots seem to love TikTok. They appear unfazed by a video-sharing social networking site overtly intrusive, to put it mildly, involving online behaviour that is increasingly raising privacy and…
A University of Dundee lecturer’s close collaboration with academic colleagues in Edinburgh, the Netherlands and Moscow, has resulted in a novel vaccine that could finally prove decisive in a lengthy…
30 June 2021 Home Become a Friend As the traditional Marching Season approaches, Sir Tom Devine explores new evidence on contemporary Orangeism in Scotland I first became interested in Orangeism…
It’s time to send a tweet to one another as a matter of urgency. Although it might be wise, instead, to utter a cyber whisper to your kids, probably also…
A common digital thread runs through two, more likely three, unconnected and on the surface incongruous events with a combined effect of restoring faith in the impact of social media…
Dear Kenneth Now you would hardly expect me – veteran campaigner for an independent Britain since 1975 – yes, 1975 – to agree with your lament on the Brexit campaign….
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Karen Buckley I have thought for a long time that it was unseemly, if not distasteful, for members of the police force to stand on the steps of a court…