Nigel Farage's embrace of the UAE is part of a wider effort by the Gulf petrostate to build alliances with the far right across the West, says Alex Carlen.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.The impeded stream is the one that sings. Wendell Berry You will probably have seen this quotation a lot lately....

“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”

The Mirrorball season of poetry readings start on National Poetry Day 1st October 2026 and runs until early summer 2027. We hold events in Glasgow, with six planned so far and more to come, and off…

Most people would not welcome such a man into their home but political leaders must make a different calculation

But UNEP's Limiting Overshoot report keeps plodding along the same timid route

Some time after an essay of mine appeared in the Sunday National I received a message from a man I had never met. “Please excuse me for writing to you out of the blue,” it began. George Gunn, a Sco…

Marjorie Lotfi’s family fled Iran with one suitcase and an hour’s notice during the Iranian Revolution. A prize-winning poet, she is involved with three events at this year’s Wigtown Book Festival. He...

A new government assessment has admitted that disabled people – and particularly older disabled people – could face subtle pressure to choose an assisted death, if a bill described as “unsafe” and …

Inigo Brodie writes about slaying the Ender Dragon in Minecraft, the story behind the End Poem, and how sometimes poetry isn’t an option, it’s the only option.

The Dymphna Bursary is awarded annually to a poet resident in Scotland who identifies as neurodivergent or has a learning disability