Ruth Wishart

Ruth Wishart in her column this week looks at the rise of AI and whether it is a threat to we humans.

It’s intriguing that a Prime Minister gives a top job to one of his predecessors, David Cameron.

Horror to the left of us, horror to the right of us; no wonder some folk have tuned out of news bulletins.

In her latest column, Ruth Wishart writes about the Israel and Gaza conflict and the lost of Israelis and Palestinians.

In her latest column, Ruth Wishart looks at conference season and the Tory Party conference in Manchester this week.

The Edinburgh International Book Festival, where I’m currently plying my “trade” chairing assorted events, had what its current director described as a hand grenade thrown into its venue before it even got seriously under way.

There was a chap on what we used to know and love as Twitter this week, who posted his thoughts about the Bibby Stockholm barge, the new floating “home” currently moored in Dorset for 500 folk seeking asylum and being decanted from hotels

OK it’s an obsession. The weather, that is – the solitary topic on which total strangers feel able to voice an opinion when their paths cross. Usually, in these parts, a pretty unfavourable one.

When you live in rural Argyll there are some things that seem quite alien. Like crowds of people. And traffic.

They say politics is showbusiness for ugly people; well it’s certainly showbusiness these days.