Review: Graeme Armstrong plugs into some of the drug-fuelled energy of Trainspotting and its kinetic Edinburgh dialogue – or in this case its patter-heavy West Coast cousin with his new novel @heraldscotland.bsky.social @graemearmstrong.bsky.social @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
In the last three general elections the vote shares in England of Labour, the Greens and Ed Davey’s Lib Dems combined have been higher than those of the Tories and Nigel Farage’s parties put together says @becmcq.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
The Damned live review: There are soft toys from the audience, bantering between band members and full-on dives into the band’s back catalogue including Neat Neat Neat and the goth theatricality of Eloise. @teddyjamieson.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @thedamned.bsky.social
On Everything’s Getting Older, a superb 2011 album by two Falkirk-born musicians, Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat, there’s a deeply moving, spoken-word song called ‘The Copper Top’, which in the space of just over five minutes says so much about death and loss. @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Tip Toe by Russell T Davies rises beyond mere TV. It’s state of the nation drama. The idea that our society was becoming more progressive, equal, inclusive, has rotted away. Extremism is today’s currency, says @neilmackay.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @alancumming.bsky.social
A professor says civil war is coming, and the UK will turn into “something like Belfast during the Troubles, or Baghdad" @neilmackay.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Review: The best works of this year’s graduating cohort of artists at Duncan and Jordanstone College of Art and Design are neither overwhelmed by global crises nor do they retreat to a level of isolating individual psychology @evieglenjourno.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Glasgow School of Art degree show review: 159 artists, six floors, one question: what makes art impossible to ignore? @heraldscotland.bsky.social @evieglenjourno.bsky.social
Review: Raveheart by Graeme Armstrong: On the strength of his 2020 debut novel The Young Team, a been-there-done-that account in Scots of gang life…
We don't need a World Cup song when we already have Flower of Scotland – perhaps the best unofficial football banger of all time, says @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Review: Gary Lineker is back on the telly - it's up to you whether that is a good or a bad thing @heraldscotland.bsky.social
The new Channel 4 drama about homophobic hatred and the rise of extremism by Russell T Davies is one of the great TV series of the last decade, our…
