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…
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….
In each edition, a personal selection of things of value: we ask each contributor to nominate their favourite book, film, piece of music, work of art, restaurant or pub, and…
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…
‘Imagined Spaces’ by Kirsty Gunn and Gail Low (published by The Voyage Out Press) How do you cut into what Elizabeth Chakrabarty terms ‘the Trojan horse’ of the essay? Whether…
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…
UPFRONT How the poor live Sketch: Barbara Millar The church hall is in a back street in Leith. It is not so very far – measured in footsteps – from…