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Time to give Roxanne the green light? »

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Involvement in the sex industry is still seen as taboo and with that taboo comes the danger of forgetting the people who work within the industry — who eventually become victims of their trade. From young women going into sex salons to work or e...

Wed 20 Feb 2013 by Lorne Gillies | Read more »

Security and Defence — A case for independence »

"For many people in Scotland, the decisions taken by the UK on defence and security are one of the reasons we favour independence."

The foreign, defence and security policies that an independent Scotland would pursue is a subject of interest not just to those who, like many students in Scotland, will vote in next year’s referendum, but to our neighbours and friends around the...

Tue 19 Feb 2013 by Humza Yousaf | Read more »

The EU is speaking, so why isn't Britain listening? »

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You couldn’t list the roles and responsibilities of the European Union (EU) on just one page, nor the benefits it brings to its members or the amount of times it has bailed out a country or averted a crisis, yet statistics show that the people of...

Tue 19 Feb 2013 by Sean McGowan | Read more »

Better together — Security and defence »

For good and for bad, Scots have stood together with the rest of the UK

As part of the United Kingdom, Scotland benefits from a comprehensive military defence system that ensured the UK’s safe passage throughout the turbulent 19th and 20th centuries. It was our soldiers in the Black Watch who spearheaded the invasion...

Tue 19 Feb 2013 by Willie Rennie | Read more »

Glasgow Film Festival 2013: Auteur or Auteuss? A conversation with Laura Colella »

Breakfast with Curtis

Emerging into the American indie scene in the 1990s, Laura Colella’s debut feature Tax Day confirmed her as a filmmaking talent. With 2004’s Staying Until Tomorrow, Harvard graduate Colella established herself internationally as a versatile...

Mon 18 Feb 2013 by Blair C Dingwall | Read more »

An Independent Scottish Defence Force »

Soldiers from The Royal Regiment of Scotland in the British Army

The looming Scottish independence referendum throws up a number of interesting questions: one of the most interesting is whether Scotland could run its own defence forces if it were an independent state. To answer that we have to start at the beginnin...

Mon 18 Feb 2013 by Stuart Crawford | Read more »

Striking a bum note »

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At the Association of British Orchestra’s annual conference a couple of weeks ago, head of Universal’s classical music operation Max Hole delivered a speech in which he stated that orchestras would have to “ride the wave of change&rdq...

Thu 07 Feb 2013 by John Hewitt Jones | Read more »

Hell is other people »

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There's the ones you know. The ones you put up with, the “friends” you call them. However they are the ones ultimately, in the end, you come to despise even more. Because they’re always there. Edinburgh’s student population has...

Wed 06 Feb 2013 by Edinburgh Anonymous | Read more »

Twitter is not the enemy, we are »

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It is quite astounding that in the same breath, perfectly educated people can lambast the mechanics of social media and mentally wring their hands over the disintegration of what they call 'fundamental personal freedoms to privacy' while simultaneously...

Wed 06 Feb 2013 by Olly Mace | Read more »

Suicide and the internet »

At the beginning of January, 18-year-old pop sensation Justin Bieber was photographed allegedly smoking a joint of marijuana. However, it wasn’t just the photographs that caught the attention of the press. Following the release of the pictures, ...

Wed 06 Feb 2013 by Lydia Willgress | Read more »

Liberté, égaylité, fraternité »

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France’s conservatism sometimes shocks its European neighbours. In the 2012 presidential election, François Hollande’s victory was less remarkable than the widespread support received by Marine-Le-Penn’s far-right Front Nationa...

Wed 06 Feb 2013 by John Steel | Read more »

Ban the corgis? »

Actually, corgis are not banned

In a highly poetic speech on Britain's role in the European Union (EU) last month, prime minister David Cameron claimed “We can no more change this [eurosceptic] British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel.” However, it is t...

Wed 06 Feb 2013 by Jon Vrushi | Read more »

Fire threatens the heart of Africa »

The market in the capital, Bujumbura, was burned to the ground

Burundi is a small country in central Africa, shaped like a heart. Not the kind of heart you doodle on a page, but the kind of heart that thumps in your chest. This startlingly beautiful country has had at least 300,000 lives stolen by genocide: some s...

Wed 06 Feb 2013 by Lucy Geake | Read more »

A journey into the unknown »

Alex Salmond and David Cameron shake on independence referendum agreement

The international legal implications of Scottish independence have been the focal point of much controversy and cause for confusion. International public law, by virtue of being incomplete, leaves room for different interpretation. Although the paramet...

Wed 06 Feb 2013 by Jon Vrushi | Read more »

Dave Grohl's Sound City »

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The music industry has dramatically changed in the last 20 years. Digital production and new technology has taken over from analogue, but is this an improvement? Modern music has become boring and repetitive in all genres, but this could all be changi...

Wed 06 Feb 2013 by Lorne Gillies | Read more »

Britain in Europe: privileged among equals? »

Nigel Farage MEP, leader of the UK Independence party

The English Channel is not the only thing that divides Britain from continental Europe; the UK has always had a difficult, if not awkward, relationship with the old continent. In a famous Yes Minister exchange, Jim Hacker, the minster for administrativ...

Sat 26 Jan 2013 by Jon Vrushi | Read more »

Borders and Barriers »

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In the run-up to the referendum in autumn 2014, it is important to think about what sort of society we want to create in Scotland and how we want to relate to our neighbours in the rest of the UK and Europe. Higher education is at the centre of this de...

Sat 26 Jan 2013 by Sheila Riddell | Read more »

Better together: The best of both worlds »

I believe that the Independence Referendum in 2014 will be the biggest political decision any of us make in our lifetimes. Young people in Scotland know that this isn’t a decision that will linger for four or five years, it is once in a generati...

Sat 26 Jan 2013 by Ross MacRae | Read more »

‘Skivers v strivers’: Fighting nonsense with nonsense »

Obesity has fresh consequences

The theory that we are never more than six degrees separate from anyone in the world grows ever more doubtful as the Earth’s population rockets through the seven billions. However, believers will be relieved to hear that obesity in the UK has tr...

Wed 23 Jan 2013 by Sean Gibson | Read more »

Yes Scotland: A vision for the Scotland I want to live in »

Michael Kelly, former Rector of Glasgow University, former Lord Provost & leading figure in the ‘No’ campaign, has laid out in stark terms his ‘vision’ for Scotland if independence is rejected in 2014. He wrote recently: "T...

Wed 23 Jan 2013 by Ross Greer | Read more »

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