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Fifty years ago this summer, a new show appeared on American TV screens. These, the opening titles explained, were the…
Preaching in pictures
To call Nils Büttner a killjoy is perhaps a little unfair, but not very. The professor at Stuttgart’s State Academy…
Desperate liaison
Six years ago, the Canadian author Clancy Martin made a splash with his autobiographical novel How to Sell, based on…
The axeman cometh
All organic beings descended from a single primordial blob, according to Darwin. Some of them developed sufficiently to leave the…
The horrors of French colonialism
We can all share the anguish in the downfall of a simple soul — for movie-goers Brando’s despairing ‘I coulda’…
Trees of life and death
Was it perhaps the landscape historian Oliver Rackham who gave rise to our present preoccupation with old trees through his…
Long lives the King
Elvis only ever appeared in one commercial in his life — for Southern Maid, his favourite jam doughnut shop. That…
They’re all doomed
Night of Fire is Colin Thubron’s first novel for 14 years. For most of us he is better known as…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Sunset66
Maybe be you could swagger to the sash Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment below.
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Arron Blue
“If it is, then instead of embracing this venality Scottish artists should aim to transcend and transform.” When do you…
Comment on The Clintons made Trump by bob labinne
For my personnal taste, I prefer to get screwed by a stupid guy, than a experienced man or woman. I…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Sunset66
I have told you before you are in a very small minority of scots who choose to denigrate their own…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Arron Blue
James [OBE] is writing a new opera entitled “The Scottish Cringe”. It deals with his own beliefs. Got something to…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by CraigStrachan
Rule Britannia sounds danceable to you? Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment below.
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by CraigStrachan
Expansiveness is more your thing. I keep it short and sweet. Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Arron Blue
“…seems…” Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment below.
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Arron Blue
Poor old James… OBE Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment below.
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Sunset66
Oh dear back on the Scottish nationalism is a bad thing British nationalism is a good thing . I think…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by sir_graphus
Artists follow the money; they used to paint Vatican ceilings and portraits of the Medici. Now it’s govts providing the…
Comment on Christopher Biggins and the fall of civilisation by Trailblazer10
The politicians etc are not staying schtum. Troops are deployed in France to protect just one particular group. “Hate crimes”…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Peter A Bell
Is it? Would you care to expand on this thoughtlet? Or do you feel, perhaps, that you may already have…
Comment on Zero tolerance, zero sanity by baz2000
Exactly the same thing happened in Dublin a few months ago. Bunch of Afghans were beaten up ‘for no reason’.…
Comment on Christopher Biggins and the fall of civilisation by Trailblazer10
“To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” SJW’s always lie:https://www.amazon.co.uk/SJWs-Always-Lie-Taking-Thought-ebook/dp/B014GMBUR4…
Comment on Trump holds the aces by JenB
The UK media is anti-Trump and anti-Clinton. Honestly, I’ve never seen a more unpalatable choice for American voters. Got something…
Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by Peter A Bell
The point, which you are evidently too shallow-minded to perceive, is not that particular tastes are unremarkable, but that diversity…
