News
Society news items, lecture reviews, and reports of member events
What has happened to the democratic intellect? The neglect of knowledge in Scottish educational policy - Professor Lindsay Paterson
Published: 10th October 2024
Lecture Reviews
The quality of Scottish school education is “not what we’d want it to be.” Also, “The quality of the analysis of the Scottish educational system is abysmal.” Attainment levels in our schools at all levels are falling
Lecture Reviews
Locusts, plagues and other disasters: why we’re made to survive adversity - Professor Helen Minnis
Published: 3rd February 2025
Lecture Reviews
The British Constitution: the last ten years and the next fifty - Lord Sumption
Published: 9th December 2024
Lecture Reviews
The Hycean Paradigm in the Search for Life Elsewhere - Professor Nikku Madhusudhan
Published: 22nd November 2024
Lecture Reviews
From Black Holes to Quantum Computers - Prof Marika Taylor
Published: 11th November 2024
Society News
Members’ visit to a sister organisation, the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society, May 2025
Published: 4th November 2024
Lecture Reviews
Burning the Books: knowledge under attack from Ancient Assyria to the age of AI - Richard Ovenden
Published: 10th October 2024
Lecture Reviews
The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart - Prof Sian Harding
Published: 20th March 2024
Lecture Reviews
Towards a Public Bio-Ethics - Prof Sarah Cunningham-Burley
Published: 6th March 2024