Education
Experienced teachers are quitting or reducing their hours – they’re struggling to cope
Teacher shortages are affecting school systems in countries across the world.
News
Editorial coverage from the Scotland Britain Wire newsroom.
- Technology
‘Terror of kings’: why the 1066 appearance of Halley’s comet terrified the medieval world
A sequence on the Bayeux tapestry shows King Harold alongside a crowd gazing at the sky, beneath the embroidered caption Isti mirant stella (“those people marvel at the star”).
- Community
The driveway divide: why parking for electric vehicles is such a big barrier
Most people who have an electric car have access to a driveway or private parking. In England, 90% EV owners can park easily and charge theirs from home.
- Community
How Denmark became the sperm donation capital of the world
“They invaded us once by boat, and now they’re doing it with sperm!” Playful headlines like this are rapidly making Danish donor sperm as renowned as Danish bacon, Lego and designer furniture.
- Technology
Is adding cottage cheese to everything from brownies to flatbreads really the best way to 'proteinmaxx’ – and do you even need to?
Cottage cheese used to be the sort of food you associated with 1970s diet plans, uninspiring lunches and people who claimed to enjoy eating grapefruit for breakfast.
- Technology
What does a Starshield slowdown really mean for Ukraine’s war with Russia?
Reports that SpaceX temporarily restricted its satellite internet service for Ukraine’s armed forces have generated serious concern in Kyiv and among the country’s allies.
- Culture
Phoebe Giannisi’s eco-poetry challenges the idea that humans are separate from nature
For decades, data has told the story of our ecological crisis. Scientists track carbon emissions, map deforestation and log biodiversity loss. Yet data alone cannot make humanity feel the reality of a changing planet.
- Technology
Digital natives are buying electric cars as if they were smartphones
Until recently, buying a car meant obsessing over horsepower, transmission types and brand heritage. But step into the market today and the showroom floor looks entirely different.
- Science
The 17th-century British scientists who investigated hauntings
About 1671, parson Symonds, who officiated at Garsdon church in north Wiltshire in south west England, was riding home late one night when a spectre leapt up behind him.
- Environment
Kipper cream or fish in custard? A century of magazine recipes reveals how Britain’s seafood tastes have narrowed
Walk into a British supermarket and you will see prawns from south-east Asia, salmon from Norway, lobster from Canada and tuna from the Indian Ocean.
- Government
How Iran carries out violence abroad – from diplomats and assassins to criminal networks
Britain’s prime minister, Andy Burnham, has said the recent suspected terror plot targeting RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire was “almost certainly” directed by Iran.
- Culture
Earthly Paradise at the William Morris Museum asks how we can ‘live radically’ inside our homes
Long before Silicon Valley promised frictionless, universal solutions to how we live, people in the UK were re-imagining domestic life and the conditions of living from the ground up.