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Most infrastructure projects end with a ribbon and a photograph. Edinburgh’s North Bridge restoration has ended with an exhibition. “Study for North Bridge,” running at the City Art Centre until mid-September, treats the eight-year repair as a subject worth examining rather than…
Scottish football is back. The 2026-27 Premiership season has kicked off, and with it the familiar rhythms of a competition that combines fierce local rivalry with the constant financial pressure of trying to compete on a European stage from a small domestic…
The identity of the world’s richest people changes less from year to year than the sums attached to their names. As of August 2026, the top ten remains dominated by the founders and heirs of the technology companies that have reshaped the…
The annual Forbes ranking of the world’s billionaires remains the definitive scorecard of extreme wealth, and the 2026 edition has delivered its usual mix of the expected and the surprising. Movement at the very top of the list reflects the forces that…
Theatre may lend the Edinburgh Fringe its prestige, but comedy is what fills its rooms. Year after year the festival serves as the most important proving ground in the English-speaking comedy world, the place where reputations are made, careers are launched, and…
The latest Spider-Man film has done what only a rare blockbuster manages, turning a weekend into a milestone. The release cleared $927 million in its first three days and broke the North American opening record, a result that will reassure an industry…
Every Edinburgh Fringe produces a handful of shows that break out of the thousands on offer to become the ones people press on each other in bars and queues. The 2026 edition, its programme larger than ever, has already begun sorting its…
Scotland has unveiled a five-year national strategy for artificial intelligence, setting out an ambition to position the country as a leader in a technology reshaping economies worldwide. Launched at the Edinburgh Futures Institute by Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes, the plan will…
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has opened its 2026 edition with a programme large enough to overwhelm anyone who tries to take it in at once. Thousands of shows have been confirmed across the city’s venues, with organisers announcing additions in their hundreds…
Edinburgh’s North Bridge has reopened to full use this month, closing an eight-year restoration that ran dramatically over its original budget. What began with a £12 million estimate ended at a projected £86 million, roughly seven times the initial figure, in one…
