Living by the Sword
Art critic Waldemar Januszczak has said the medium that won this year’s prestigious Turner Prize is “old hat”, but the problem is that film and video is “so easy to do that it attracts the untalented”.
Living by the Sword
A grieving mum whose eight-year-old son died from an aggressive brain tumour after a massive campaign to send him to Mexico for treatment has given birth to twins.
Living by the Sword
The BBC were forced to pull today’s early edition of Reporting Scotland following an embarrassing technical blunder.
Living by the Sword
American diner-style restaurant chain Denny’s has more than 1,600 restaurants across the USA, but it’s now making its way across the Atlantic to Scotland.
Living by the Sword
Thanks to the Beast from the East 2017/18 was a fantastic season for Scotland’s ski centres, and photographer Stevie McKenna was on hand to capture it in all its glory. Interview by Roger Cox
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Hollywood star Tilda Swinton is facing a battle with locals and heritage groups over plans to refurbish her Highland home.
Living by the Sword
Hollywood star Tilda Swinton is facing a battle with locals and heritage groups over plans to refurbish her Highland home.
Living by the Sword
Eduardo Paolozzi and Andy Warhol were contemporaries. Born in 1928, Warhol was just four years the junior. Both were sons of first generation immigrants, but though that doesn’t seem to be refelcted in Warhol’s work, it was definitive in Paolozzi’s.
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It’s no surprise that Joseph Stalin’s obsession with weapons of mass destruction included the promotion of biological weapons (BW), but the background to his regime’s development of this type of warfare, with its triumphs and failures, makes for eye-opening and sometimes grim reading.
Living by the Sword
“This book,” Simon Jenkins writes, “is aimed at those without the time or inclination for a longer one.” Nothing wrong with that; he doesn’t believe that history should be taught in depth rather than breadth.
Living by the Sword
William McIlvanney, the writers who invented Tartan Noir and turned everyday conversation into high art, should be better known around the world, writes Pete Martin on the third anniversary of the Kilmarnock-born writer’s death.
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His trademark “Big Banana Boots” helped shoot him to fame in the mid-1970s. But now Billy Connolly has left even bigger boots to fill after deciding to call it a day from touring.
Living by the Sword
Charlotte Prodger has won the “political” 2018 Turner Prize for film work examining landscapes and gender identity shot on an iPhone.
Living by the Sword
Van Morrison and guests mix covers and fresh material so carefully and lovingly you can barely see the joins
Living by the Sword
There’s a touch of Clarice Starling-meets-Hannibal Lecter in the opening chapters of bestselling thriller writer David Baldacci’s latest novel, Long Road To Mercy, which introduces us to female FBI special agent Atlee Pine as she visits a “monster” inmate in a high security prison.
