As Glasgow’s most famous tower blocks are razed, we’re again being asked to celebrate destruction of old notions of housing provision. We should treat it as a different opportunity entirely.
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At a time when queer culture is big business in mainstream film and television, two dedicated film festivals have appeared in Scotland this year. Here’s an explanation.
From the unique dwellings of Omigachi in Japan to the ruined temples of Angkor, Cambodia, UNESCO status brings great value. Here’s why Edinburgh needs to take its status more seriously.
Everyone’s favourite BBC sci-fi show is sometimes held up as a model of regional development in television. Don’t believe it.
The union can survive its current period of volatility, but moves like English votes for English laws and ruling out a UK coalition with the SNP could yet bring it down.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) hate the BBC, which may sound harsh but makes sense when you think about it. The BBC – the British Broadcasting Corporation – is the ultimate symbol of Union, the cultural…
Twelve months on from the vote on Scottish independence, there are no signs of constitutional healing - nor elsewhere in the UK.
As the Labour Left’s fourth choice of candidate prepares to take the party reins, he may have taken the lead from Scotland’s Yes campaign and ushered in a new age in UK politics.
Danny Boyle’s pop heroin fable defined an era and made the careers of everyone involved. Here are a few reasons to be wary of the sequel - and a possible happy ending.
The Scottish first minister’s speech may have been strong on vision, but there were no signs of innovative thinking on how new Scottish services would be funded at a time of BBC cutbacks.
Grey squirrels hate these reclusive, cat-sized predators.
The left-wing firebrand might be packing out venues in Scotland as much as England, but he’s got some thinking to do.
The landed gentry don’t like the reforms that are in the offing. But that doesn’t mean there’s anything radical about them.
New research is looking at obtaining precious omega-3 from GM crops – just as the Scottish government announced a ban.
Haggis and Irn Bru have long since been usurped by politics as the greatest Scottish peculiarity. Here’s a bunch of nuggets on that subject that are all too often overlooked.
Regardless of what Corbyn would mean for England, at least he’d win back Scotland for Labour, right? Not according to this new analysis.
In threatening to derail a vote on fox hunting in England, the SNP has undermined its credibility as a voice for Scotland.
There is a widespread belief that the independence referendum stumbled across the elixir for dispelling longstanding voter apathy. In the areas where it matters most, it is just not true.
As the British Museum gears up for some soul-searching about our inner Celt, 500 dons are gathering with much the same mission.
It’s time to listen to sex workers about how best to keep them safe.
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