The Woolwich atrocity takes terrorism to a new stage, when the murder of one man can be as shocking as a bomb attack, and harder to prevent, writes Dani Garavelli

It’s always once they get to the back of the police station that they realise what they’ve done.

TOMORROW you, the people of Scotland, can vote for one of the 20 albums on the longlist for the 2013 Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) award – after which the longlist will be whittled down to a ten-strong shortlist, and finally, on 20 June, to a single winner.

Lord Patten has survived fearsome storms as Conservative Party chairman and Hong Kong’s last governor, but restoring faith in the BBC will be heavy weather, he tells Stephen McGinty

They’ll never burn up the road but a lifelong passion still inflames the diehard scooterists of the Kelso rally

HISTORY is always divisive. There’s also a journalistic truism that no matter how much you know about a subject some reader will know more.

I DO not like Beyoncé. I realise this is as controversial a statement these days as “I do not like cute puppies with wet noses” or “that Farage chap talks a lot of sense, actually”, but it’s true. I do not care for the woman.

Director John Tiffany tells Susan Mansfield why the delicate art of bloodletting treads a fine line on stage

WITH a name even Francophobes can pronounce and a very photogenic village home, the perennial popularity of Chateauneuf du Pape is no surprise. Indeed, it sometimes seems it has been present on wine lists since the Avignon papacy itself ended over 600 years ago.

WHEN the Left Bank opened in the summer of 2006, it was the epitome of Glaswegian cool. If the West End seemed to be gradually losing the bohemian mojo that had made it such a famously vibrant place to be in the 1970s and 1980s, the Left Bank appeared to be kicking back with a vengeance.

New Zealand offers an insight into the films of the Tolkien classics

Viggo Mortensen plays identical twin brothers in Ana Piterbarg’s opaque thriller. Viggo 1 is an indistinctly unhappy doctor working in Buenos Aires who gets a visit from Viggo 2, a terminally ill, beekeeping petty criminal.

TWO years ago I reviewed the Collected Stories of Lydia ­Davis for this paper, beginning my critique with the words: “This is not a book to review in a week: rather, it is a book to abide with and ponder over for a lifetime.”

DRIVING up to Jupiter Artland, Robert and Nicky Wilson’s award-winning sculpture garden at Bonnington House near Ratho, the newest addition to the landscape is unmissable.

A SHORT list of things that are more amusing than The Hangover Part III: Beverly Hills Cop III, The Hangover Part II and possibly even The Wright Way.

WHAT a fab and groovy thing David Bowie – Five Years was, and what a strange square world we lived in back when its subject first dazzled.

WHEN the poet Emily Dickinson wrote “I think that the root of the Wind is Water” she was tapping into the primordial connections ­between our lives and the sea that once nurtured us.

THERE are currently so many vampires flapping around movies that new additions tends to get boxed by age, genre and state of mind.

ALBERT Camus was that rare kind of writer who enjoyed a celebrity usually reserved for rock stars, even while being taken seriously as an artist and intellectual.

FEW events have had such a debilitating impact on Scotland as Flodden. The debacle in 1513 reversed the process started by Bannockburn and may, along with the Reformation, have made the Unions, of 1603 and 1707, inevitable.