The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
NIGHTTIME temperatures will near freezing levels in Edinburgh on Sunday.
Last-minute Christmas shoppers will hurry home from Princes Street for parental present-wrapping sessions.
The concourse at Waverley will be rammed with families awaiting the arrival home of loved ones.
SCOTT ALSWORTH searches for something – anything – worth recommending from the year’s releases
SYMON HILL looks at Tommy Robinson’s bid to use Christmas to spread division and hate — and reminds us that’s the opposite of Jesus’s message
SWEE ANG, the founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians, is a big believer in the power of small actions, and she is the living proof it works, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors


