Opinion

Facts are somewhat ineffective in fighting the spread of misinformation. Building trust, rather than flashing credentials, is key.

The 2016 referendum decision to leave the EU shook the UK to its constitutional core. The aftershocks may yet loosen Scotland's place in the Union.

Use the G7 to revolutionise global health data and prevent next Covid-19

The number of people with mental illness was rising before the pandemic. Easing restrictions is not enough to improve their lives.

The pandemic has brutally exposed our lack of respect for moral and social knowledge. This must be relearned, quickly.

The best of intentions can easily be undone when complacency, callousness and incompetence are rife at the highest level.

The story of mankind and its impact on the environment is locked in the strata of ice.

It’s not hard to see why AI is an interesting starting point for a movie. Beyond the obvious storylines that explore the threat to our perception of being the dominant intelligent species, AI has become a lens through which to consider more existential questions – a way to interrogate the very condition of ‘being human’.

Actions driven by the powerful emotion could bring significant change.

In 1951 the School of Scottish Studies began collecting images, stories and voices of the Scottish lives that had been often overlooked. As its famed Archive celebrates its 70th anniversary, its impact still resonates.

A rising number are living in a state deemed 'worse than death'.