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See no evil:

Most of us turn a blind eye to the anti-social practices of Amazon, writes Peter Burnett

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Alistair Braidwood enjoys exquisite storytelling from a self-effacing writer who covered every major music event of the last 40 years

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Meeting Jim:

A new documentary about a key character in the story of the Edinburgh Festival gets lost in plodding self-importance, writes Victor Eaves

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A casualised economy, sold-off sports fields and an over- reliance on cars has produced an obesity epidemic. Chris Harvie on how we might shed some lard

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Pretty Preachers Club choose their favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy

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Night on the moor:

A short story by D.B. MacInnes

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Was it Shakespeare or Dorothy Parker:

A poem by Ben Mitchell

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