Why is Glasgow trashing its architectural heritage?
It’s a big summer for Glasgow. Fresh from twinning with Boston after the Tartan Army’s World Cup antics entranced the…
Death, schism and conspiracy: Orkney’s renegade Catholic monks
A tiny island in the Orkneys. A renegade group of Catholic monks who have rejected every Pope since the 1960s.…
The Panic of 1873 seems eerily familiar
Rapid technological change, real estate bubbles and a heavy reliance on debt helped precipitate the first Great Depression, with striking parallels to the situation today
The Wall Street Crash never ceases to fascinate
The 1929 catastrophe and its aftermath have obvious parallels and connections with our own era, as Andrew Ross Sorkin illustrates
Pope Leo’s papal economics
The Catholic Church now has its first American pope, but Robert Francis Prevost’s papal name of Leo XIV is perhaps…
Scotland has failed Andy Murray
So much for building upon the legacy of the nation’s greatest ever sportsman. There will be no tennis balls hit…
The roots of anti-Semitism in Europe
The original blood libel, which materialised after the First Crusade in the 11th century, proved a turning point for Jews, as a wave of religious frenzy swept communities away
