Living by the Sword
A dossier of emails over controversial plans to bring in hundreds of unpaid workers for Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations has revealed widespread behind-the-scenes concerns over the fall-out from the recruitment drive.
Living by the Sword
IF ANYONE can elevate masturbatory gurning to a level approaching performance art, it’s Limmy. For better or worse, no other comic is so immersed in the rhythms and culture of the internet as the Glaswegian.
Living by the Sword
YOU know how, at book festivals, there’s often an embarrassed silence when the chair asks if anyone has a question for the author? You know how sometimes those questions aren’t really questions at all but just somebody wanting to show off?
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Irvine Welsh has warned that his native Leith is at risk of being ruined by the “crass exploitation” of property developers – as he called for an under-threat living music venue in the area to be saved.
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The growing debate over gun killings in the United States under Donald Trump’s presidency is to inspire Irvine Welsh’s next novel, he has revealed.
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What is shopping, what is a purchase, if not a more or less intense moment of desire settled by a sudden act of volition? The Driver’s Seat opens in a boutique, where our heroine, Lise, is getting into an argument about a dress.
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BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James has raised more than £1 million for Sport Relief with his gruelling bike and mountain challenge that included scaling Ben Nevis.
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This, apparently, is the last novel Irvine Welsh will write with the cast of his breakout debut Trainspotting. Thank goodness for that, though I doubt it. Welsh has squandered his original vision with a series of increasingly wretched spin-offs ...
Living by the Sword
As the winter's snow slowly, but surely, makes its retreat up to the tops of the country's highest peaks, wildflowers have started to introduce flashes of colour to the Scottish landscape. Enjoy the country's new lease of life with one of these fine spring walks.
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On Monday, thousands of workers in New Zealand will enjoy a day off work in honour of the first shipful of Scots settlers who arrived on South Island 170 years ago
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Irvine Welsh has warned Trainspotting fans that the final escapades of its characters is “unlikely” to make it onto the big screen - despite saying he felt he had “no option” but to write a final book about them.
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With rugged mountains, peaceful lochs and unique cities, Scotland has an embarassment of riches when it comes to scenery. Here are 15 of the country’s finest views.
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There was nothing like a day at the pool where hours could be lost mucking around with friends or learning a stroke or two.
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It’s party time. The Babycham is flowing. And shell suit-wearing guests are shuffling amid the fogged disco lights to Dead Or Alive’s You Spin Me Round.
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Power walking is not like running where you get the pain threshold and think ‘gosh, this is terrible’,” says Nina Barough who founded the breast cancer charity Walk the Walk.
