Future Library:
A Century Unfolds

In the country of last things…

With our world on a shaky peg, Colin Montgomery feels synaesthesia could be the weapon that restores it to its senses

Times change, reckons Kennedy Wilson, and never quite so quickly as in the mid 20th century

We lift our eyes when we want to see further, believing in our common humanity lifts our eyes too, and it also opens them

Tweed has a romantic, longstanding history dating back to 18th century Scotland

Let’s collaborate on tackling racism and xenophobia, let’s recommit to making Leith an even more tolerant and pluralist place in years to come

It didn’t take long and usually never does…

Mira Koche reflects on the Paula Rego Exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, which finished as we descended (or ascended) in to lockdown

The doctors wore masks too: sinister long pointed ones with herbs inside the beaks to protect them from the smell

Three sentence exposés of biting beauty, irresistible irony and everyday theatre of the absurd? Félix Fénéon’s your man says Colin Montgomery

Things turn full circle, once again I’m instructing people to fill a tote bag with cans of beans to use as a makeshift dumbbell

Soon I realised that I need the inspiration of new places, different coastlines, new colours, new sounds, new smells

Sally Fraser finds herself in a power cut with Doctor Who and some Milk Tray

Jack Monroe was a near-constant presence on social media, offering specific, practical, free advice

He used to think the acrobat had been brave in their love, because every night he threw himself into the air, ignoring that he had no wings

No withdrawal of bedroom privileges

The Precious Metals Workshop and This is Ian are two of the leading ethical jewellery based organisations in Scotland

Dan Collins is here to tell us what the legalisation of cannabis DOESN’T mean