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A sandstone cylinder, supporting a large iron water tank, with a steam engine behind, supplied Perth with pure water for 133 years. Since 1992, it has had a new lease…

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…

6 January 2016 Home Subscribe Free Become a Friend Podcasts In November I sat for an hour and a half in a film studio at the Barbican in London, watching,…

The author of this article is an academic at an ‘ancient’ university in Scotland. It is a sad reflection on the state of free speech in UK universities that he/she…

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…

Just before Christmas, as San Sebastian prepared to relinquish its year as one of the two European Capitals of Culture (shared with Wroclaw in Poland), there was a silent demonstration…

I was at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for a morning recently and I heard just one case. This wasn’t because of any legal complexities, requiring hours of heated debate, stretching beyond…

Journalist Bill Jamieson read about the terminal illness of his contemporary and friend, Scottish Review editor Kenneth Roy, when he was ‘in the bleakest of motorway service stations’ en route…

The steam train slowly chugs through the idyllic Kent countryside on its way from Tenterden to the tiny village of Bodiam, 10 miles away. But the heritage station at Bodiam,…