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For the last few weeks, this column has been devoted to the fierce and multi-faceted debate surrounding the removal of the chairlifts from Coire na Ciste in the CairnGorm Mountain ski area. The idea behind...
Living by the Sword
The last few years have seen some notable triumphs for writers who believe that less is more. Perhaps most obviously, Austria’s Robert Seethaler made the Man Booker International shortlist in 2016 for A Whole Life...
Living by the Sword
Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No 1 may not be the most virtuosic in the repertoire, but its compelling lyricism and underlying energy was captured to dazzling effect by soloist Sol Gabetta. Digging deep into the cello strings with her bow...
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IT’S a pity, in a way, that this touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard is not officially part of Scotland’s current Luminate festival of creative ageing, because the mighty tale...
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THE idea of the jury as a “little parliament” of citizens, and as one of the foundations of our liberty, looms large in British and Scots law. Yet if a jury is a parliament, it’s one where the members are usually obliged to sit in silence...
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If this year’s BFI London Film Festival got off to a conventional start earlier this week with true-life tear-jerker Breathe (***), Andy Serkis’s directorial debut also showcased something that has been self-evident from his pioneering motion-capture work as an actor in The Lord of the Rings films...
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It’s about time she started getting things together, but she’s like: ‘I’ve made this carapace for myself to protect myself and now that’s who I am’.” Scottish filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns is talking about Daphne, the eponymous character in his impressive debut feature.
Living by the Sword
THE idea of the jury as a “little parliament” of citizens, and as one of the foundations of our liberty, looms large in British and Scots law. Yet if a jury is a parliament, it’s one where the members are usually obliged to sit in silence...
Living by the Sword
As I have said before, many novels have the equivalent of a Freudian slip. In this work it comes on page 139, where the Edinburgh bookseller and central character, Gilbert Johnson, is reminiscing about...
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It’s now a little over a month since the chairlift towers came crashing down in Coire na Ciste in the Cairngorm Mountain ski area, and in that time we’ve heard from various people involved in the ensuing debate.
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Historic Environment Scotland is a Quango, formed in 2015 by a merger of Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Board members are appointed by the Scottish Government.
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LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — An anonymous donor has given a northwestern Iowa school district $2 million to renovate a high school sports complex.
The Sioux City Journal reports the Le Mars Community...
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IT’S good to get the audience involved and that’s exactly what Jonathan Morton, director of the Scottish Ensemble, did in this opening concert of the 4th annual Cumnock Tryst Festival. “There’s a “C” that drones all the way through Purcell’s quirky Fantasia on One Note”, he told us.
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Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop in Wigtown - Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop, with over 100,000 books spread over a mile of shelving. In 2014 he began to keep a diary of the goings-on there and The Diary of a Bookseller, published this week by Profile, is the result.
Living by the Sword
Passengers mentally listing their favourite Scottish stations might include the magnificent and largest – Glasgow Central – or perhaps its east coast counterpart, Edinburgh Waverley. However, many may...
