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Books Interview: Don Paterson »

Don Paterson

It’s hard to tell from the unassuming exterior and corduroy trousers that Paterson is a writer who began his career playing jazz and rock gigs. Neither is it immediately obvious he’s won every major poetry prize in the UK, including the T.S...

Wed 09 May 2012 by John Hewitt Jones | Read more »

Treasures from The Queen's Palaces »

Mosaic Easter Egg, Carl Fabergé. 1914

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Mon 07 May 2012 by Monja Prokscha | Read more »

Will Self Interview »

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  Will Self appears larger in the flesh than he does on television; a tall, hulking figure with a lope that gives him the air of something between a stern uncle and university professor. He’s just delivered an ‘alternative G...

Wed 25 Apr 2012 by John Hewitt Jones | Read more »

Back to the start: Irvine Welsh returns »

Almost two decades on from the release of the hugely successful and popular Trainspotting and 10 years following its sequel, Porno, Irvine Welsh has once again delved into the characters of Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie. Skagboys, the author's fa...

Wed 25 Apr 2012 by Martin Owens | Read more »

Meeting of minds »

To the left, a golden pheasant under a pink blossom tree adorns the wall. To the right, an ornate kingfisher. This could be the Orient. However, instead an audience arrived in Edinburgh, the setting for perhaps one of the most important literary inter...

Tue 24 Apr 2012 by Jamie Brotherston | Read more »

Within the space of: New Works by Claire Davies and Sacha Imrie »

Within the Space of...., Claire Davies and Sacha Imrie

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Sun 12 Feb 2012 by Joe Etchell | Read more »

Photography: A Lost Art? »

Photography: A Lost Art?

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Fri 27 Jan 2012 by Francesca Sobande | Read more »

The reconstruction of education »

Children in Libya

“May God let the right side win,” she said, adding, “We don’t even know what the right side is.” The above quotation comes from an article published in the New York Times on Libya and the problems its teachers, students a...

Wed 19 Oct 2011 by Mark Gee | Read more »

Billy Kay: Six centuries of Scottish universities »

Billy Kay

If ye've a knacky son or twa, To Glasgow College send them a' Where, for the Gospel or the Law Or classic Lair, Ye'll find few places hereawa' That can compare – Glasgow poet John Mayne, celebrating the centrality of his old university to the Gl...

Wed 19 Oct 2011 by Olivia Pires | Read more »

Where is Scottish Labour going? »

Ken Macintosh MSP

  Embarrassing. Historic. Theoretically unusual. Many things passed through the minds of Labour supporters in Scotland during the parliamentary elections in May. The Scottish National Party (SNP) won over the country, long a bastion of support ...

Wed 05 Oct 2011 by Jonathan Baldie | Read more »

Rizwaan Sabir: "Innocent until proven Muslim" »

Rizwaan Sabir

On 14 May 2008, Rizwaan Sabir was arrested and detained for seven days under the Terrorism Act. The reason: downloading an Al-Qaeda training manual — copies of which can be freely purchased from high street book stores for under £...

Wed 05 Oct 2011 by Olivia Pires | Read more »

Strathclyde law students go pro bono »

The Strathclyde Law Clinic team

Walking down the corridor in Strathclyde University’s Graham Hills building the blue carpet is worn and stained by the masses that traipse through it. It is ordinary and unexceptional, but behind one of the grey doors is the core of a significant revol...

Wed 05 Oct 2011 by Sara Warden | Read more »

Norway terrorist attacks: 'I remember his face just like it was yesterday' »

An informal memorial to the victims of the Norway terrorist attacks which claimed 77 lives

In an Edinburgh cafe, as police outside corral the opposing masses of Scottish Defence League protesters and Unite Against Fascism campaigners who have gathered on the eve of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, John tells me about a cold July day on a Norwe...

Mon 26 Sep 2011 by Olivia Pires | Read more »

The wind's pushing Scotland forward »

Offshore windfarm

In the global race to develop sustainable alternative energy sources, Scotland is among the countries currently leading the pack. With 25 per cent of Europe’s tidal power and 10 per cent of its wave energy, the Scottish renewables sector is poise...

Wed 14 Sep 2011 by Marthe Lamp Sandvik | Read more »

AV: A closer look »

The referendum which will be presented to the British public on 5 May is one of the few opportunities in which we are able to participate directly in the democratic process. Politicians and political activists alike have seized upon the current public ...

Wed 04 May 2011 by James Turley | Read more »

Wearing thin: will the Eurozone survive the ongoing monetary crisis? »

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On the eve of John F. Kennedy’s presidency, fifty years ago, the prolific economist J.K Galbraith wrote a cautionary letter to the idealistic young president. He warned him that “politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choos...

Wed 20 Apr 2011 by Richard Martyn-Hemphill | Read more »

Theatre Unleashed »

“Theatre Uncut is a massive project that’s happening, it’s been spearheaded in London by Reclaim Theatre and Meeting Point Productions at the Southwark Playhouse.” Says Alexandra Cory, the producer of Theatre Uncut: Bedlam, one ...

Sat 12 Mar 2011 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, is alcoplay a step too far? »

To visit one of the seven East Lothian schools piloting a new scheme to promote alcohol awareness through role-play, you might be forgiven for thinking someone had spiked the children’s milk and biscuits. The programme, Alcohol Interactive, was d...

Wed 23 Feb 2011 by Alexa Caldecott | Read more »

Let's be civil about this »

Civil partnerships

I’m getting married next year. Well, I say 'married' - that’s not strictly true. According to the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1997, marriage is defined as between a man and a woman and prohibits same-sex unions. So while my fiancée and ...

Wed 09 Feb 2011 by Carrie Lyell | Read more »

Climate change: the battle for public opinion »

Climate change is here to stay. In fact we are ‘locked in’ - destined as it were - to observe at least a certain level of warming over the next ten years. But this is by no means a doomsday prediction or a submission that future developmen...

Wed 26 Jan 2011 by Laura Morris | Read more »

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Stand up for Stanhope

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My my Delilah

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