Alistair Braidwood is charmed by the story of Scotland’s innovative post punk outsiders

A true story by Carolyn Roberts

By Anna Viceconti

A poem by Fiona Ritchie Walker

Alistair Braidwood admires this thrilling, thorough take on a golden age of Scottish music

A powerful insight into the lives of women engaged in conflict, organised by Beyond Borders Scotland.

Bill Hicks has been derided as an anti-corporate fanatic, UFO devotee and gun fetishist. But what he would really have hated is being described as the lost saviour of stand-up, writes Allan Brown

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

Is HyperNormalisation journalism or entertainment? Sibylla Kalid sifts through the arguments

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

Indie-pop survivors resurface with a record rich in off-kilter charm, writes Neil Cooper

A short story of lust and longing in the Old Town, by Lisa Locascio

By Gerry Stewart