Valentine’s day is over:

Is love past its sell-by date? Hannah McGill (part one) thinks she’s better off without it, while Tom McLean (part two) skips through a buttercup meadow hand in hand wi’ his gie bonnie lass.

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Hello from Aimee:

Editorial volunteer Aimee Robbins chooses her favourite stories from the magazine

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Bring in the fire:

By Angela Yausheva

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Creative writing course:

Enjoy a Hebridean summer adventure on Product’s first creative writing course

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Let all the children boogie:

Neil Cooper tries to work out what Bowie meant to him

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How to make friends:

A poem by Maxine Rose Munro

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Charming:

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Art
Braw lassies, honest lads:

Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert documents the old tradition of the Common Riding festivals in the Scottish Borders.

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Books
Seize the day:

Robin McAlpine’s latest book urges Scottish independence campaigners to grab the initiative and win the big arguments, writes Paddy Bort

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Collaborations
Coastal Aerial View by Alison McGill, Oil and wax on board
The pipeline:

A short story by Frank Rennie, inspired by Alison McGill’s painting ‘Coastal Aerial View’.

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Film
Down the rabbit hole:

Nathanael Smith looks forward to the sixth Scotland Loves Anime festival

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Ideas
Those to whom evil is done:

Chris Harvie on warnings from history and the shitstorm to come

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Music
Decades:

Joy Division were on the cusp of mainstream success forty years ago. Neil Cooper looks at how they conquered the world

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New Writing
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The pipeline:

A short story by Frank Rennie, inspired by Alison McGill’s painting ‘Coastal Aerial View’.

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Poetry
A season in Hull:

Invention, defiance and solidarity lit up Neu! Reekie!’s Where Are We Now? festival foray to the Hull City of Culture, writes Neil Cooper

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