From the Press
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Climate change may be good for Scotland; would lead to ice melting across the Arctic, opening-up new shipping routes in the Arctic, from northern European countries such as Norway through to the USA and Canada.> By Andrew Whitaker Scotsman |
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Scotlands separatist movement gains momentum while Quebecs stumbles> Postmedia News Nov 13, 2011 1:51 PM ET | Last Up read more>> |
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Celebrating Scotland the world over> 29/11/2011 Scottish Government News Release http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2011/11/29124355 read more>> |
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Mega funds keen to build Scotlands future> Peter Jones Times Last updated December 7 2011 12:01AM |
Arts & Culture
Everyone's on the make in John Steinbeck's recession-era novella that doubles as a play, revived here in his latest look at American classics by director John Dove.
The first time I meet Riz Ahmed, it's in the lift heading to the basement of London's Covent Garden Hotel.
Although many think they know exactly what it sounds like, in reality it is becoming hard to keep track of the full diversity of the music of the prolific Philip Glass.
Cal MacAninch has played both upstairs and downstairs in the last year.
Isolation may be the crux of Samuel Beckett's literary and dramatic canon, yet such is his waggishly profound understanding of the human condition that it connects in a way that mere navel-gazing never could.
If there is any justice in the modern music world (and I fear we know the answer to that one) the new album from brothers Peter and David Brewis and their cohorts in Field Music (guitarist Kev Dosdale and new bassist Andrew Lowther) will be the one the catapults them Elbow-style into the big time.
Vanishing On 7th Street
Additional News from Scotland
Bon viveur and addiction counsellor;
Scot who pioneered golf-specific physiotherapy;
Local politician;
Winter sports pioneer;
