'A Play for Torry' tells of how they paved paradise and put up an incinerator, a landfill site and not even a parking lot, writes Peter McColl.

The entire contents of the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow were auctioned off by a commercial asset sales...

The name ‘Belfast’ is an anglicised form of Béal Feirste, which means ‘the crossing of the River Farset’.

After his 1909 kidnapping, promising solar inventor George Cove's plans fizzled, while coal and oil grew at an unprecedented pace

A basic income scheme has already been piloted in Ireland

With universities treating free speech as a compliance problem, Peter McColl argues the sector is missing a chance to improve the culture of debate itself

​by Peter McColl The old two-party system isn’t just broken; it is actively collapsing under the weight of its own cynical strategy. While the Tories are in a death spiral, Labour’s attempt to manipul...

It was -10ºC outside and only 10ºC in Yulia’s flat, but she told me this was a good day: the radiators weren’t...

A radical proposal for a tough situation

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The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to be...

THE recently elected Irish government may have accidentally stumbled on the winning formula in the post-Covid era. Sitting governments have been on…

Exceptionalism is the essence of Balmorality. There is no need to break the rules because they have been written in such...