WITH AI, we’re inching ever closer to something extraordinary and world-changing. But the steps that seem to make it matter are always pretty banal. If it doesn’t make sense to us social, creative mammals, we barely care...
FOR those of us well-versed in the prophetic and righteous teachings of Professor Cornel West, it was quite something to watch him testify on the steps of Edinburgh’s National Records office this Thursday ...
I HAVE encountered John Swinney several times in my life. But my most memorable (though brief) exchange was while we were both rushing for trains in opposite directions, at Dundee station, around the early 2000s ...
I FLUNG open the curtains in my 10th-storey Glasgow hotel room. There it loomed above me, like a scene from a pint-sized Manhattan ...
I HAVEN’T spoken at an independence rally in Glasgow’s George Square for many years (which I’m doing this afternoon). Would I have chosen this Saturday, with the benefit of hindsight?
LOOK up. Millions across
WHEN trying to critique the overwhelming power of military systems, it’s always best to start at their cheesiest point.
I WOULD encounter my mum in the mornings, the garden light behind making her a shadowy outline...
IT’S my bad luck to be completing the last Frankie Boyle novel just when the Hate Crime Act is about to come into force in Scotland.
THE noted 1960s provocateur and dramatist Joe Orton once wrote: “Sex is the only way to infuriate them. Much more fucking and they’ll be screaming hysterics in next to no time.”
