Joyce McMillan

Why John Byrne's astonishing genius and style was there from the first encounter Joyce McMillan

Gary McNair

Gary McNair on his new play UGLY! A Cinderella Story

Ian Spink performs in Andy Howitt’s 12 Dancers/Deliberance in 2012

Obituaries: Ian Spink, Choreographer and dancer who thrived on collaboration

Among my grief and helplessness, I have also felt gratitude for the life I have

Root and branch reform is needed of our frozen local authorities Joyce McMillan

Liam Brennan and Angus Miller in the new production of Dead Dad Dog PIC: Lidia Crisafulli

John McKay on the revival of his hit 80s play Dead Dad Dog

SNP should now think of independence as a long-term project Joyce McMillan

Braverman’s speech was a rejection of every decent value the UK used to espouse

MSPs at Holyrood are shirking their responsibilities, reckons reader (Picture: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Why are MSPs setting up commissions to do their jobs?

Rosebank oil field decision based on myths, half-truths and disinformation Joyce McMillan

Andy Arnold PIC: John Johnston

Andy Arnold on leaving Glasgow's Tron Theatre after 16 years in charge

Tories’ descent into fantasy politics should shock us all Joyce McMillan

Rory Stewart

Book review: Politics on the Edge: A Memoir From Within, by Rory Stewart

'Economic growth' obsession is driving inequality Joyce McMillan

Kieran Hodgson is among the contenders for the main prize in this year's Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

Festival Diary: Kieran Hodgson’s new ‘People Make Glasgow anthem’

Nicola Benedetti at the Edinburgh International Festival programme launch (pic: Mihaela Bodlovic)

Nicola Benedetti unable to sleep as Edinburgh International Festival director

Xhloe and Natasha in What If They Ate The Baby?

Fringe First Awards: five new winners and an invitation to our awards ceremony

The Last of the Soviets, a stark and uncompromising portrait of the Russian psyche.

Scotsman Fringe Firsts: seven more winners of our prestigious new writing awards

Nato risks an age of perpetual conflict if it decides to appease Vladimir Putin Joyce McMillan

Gunter. Picture: Alex Brenner

Fringe theatre reviews: Gunter | Hello Kitty Must Die | Them | Pitch

The Grand Old Opera House Hotel PIC: Tommy Ga-ken Wan

Scotsman Fringe Firsts: six shows win our prestigious new writing awards

A satirical cartoon from around 1800 showing John Bull marching off to war (Image by James Gillray/Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Festival is challenging British Empire mythology that still blights our politics

Edinburgh's Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe PIC: Jane Barlow/PA

Fringe Young Writers Award 2023: a chance to be mentored by Scotsman critics

Life is a Dream, Edinburgh International Festival PIC: Javier Naval

Edinburgh International Festival preview: Declan Donnellan on Life is a Dream

Two of the photographs in the Fringe Firsts at 50 exhibition on the south side of St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, from left to right: Sam Heughan in Outlying Islands by David Greig; Elizabeth MacLennan in Hyperlynx by John McGrath

Photography exhibition charts 50 Years of the Fringe Firsts

Phoebe Waller-Bridge with her 2013 Fringe First award for the original production of Fleabag.

50 years of the Scotsman's Fringe First awards

Isobel McArthur wrote in Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) and starred in the Tron Theatre show alongside Hannah Jarrett-Scott, Christina Gordon, Tori Burgess and Meghan Tyler. Picture: Matt Crockett

Six venues set to share resources under Scottish theatre survival plan

Maimuna Memon performs an extract from her Fringe First-winning play Manic Street Creature at the final Fringe First awards ceremony of 2002 PIC: Phil Wilkinson

The Scotsman's Fringe First Awards – Everything You Need to Know

We must always challenge the ideology that human pain is a 'price worth paying' Joyce McMillan

Matthew Pidgeon and Omar Austin in the play Enough of Him. Picture: Sally Jubb

Play recalling slave who won bid for freedom in Scotland honoured at awards

A mural depicting German composer Ludwig van Beethoven on a house in his native city of Bonn, Germany PIC:Ina Fassbender / AFP / Getty Images

Book review: Beethoven’s Assassins, by Andrew Crumey

Scottish independence supporters can take comfort from at least one recent poll (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Independence movement is still strong despite SNP's troubles – Joyce McMillan

If Scottish universities don’t carry out weapons research for the Pentagon, above, someone else will.

Scotsman Letters: If our universities won't accept military cash, others will

Lindsey Campbell as Anna and Ray Sesay as Levin in Anna Karenina at the Lyceum PIC: Robbie McFadzean

Theatre reviews: Anna Karenina | Leopards Ate My Face

Home Secretary Suella Braverman struck an Orwellian tone in her speech at the National Conservatism conference (Picture: Victoria Jones/PA)

National Conservatism is wake-up call about far-right politics – Joyce McMillan

King Charles III and Queen Camilla wave to the crowds from the balcony at Buckingham Palace (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Criticism of coronation is royally unfair

King Charles appeared somewhat melancholy during the coronation ceremony (Picture: Richard Pohle/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Joyce McMillan: Flag-waving is not what people need amid cost-of-living crisis

Edinburgh International Festival director Nicola Benedetti was interviewed by The Scotsman critic and commentator Joyce McMillan at The Hub. Picture: Scott Louden

Edinburgh International Festival: Nicola Benedetti reveals her 'biggest fear'

The cast of Protest in rehearsals

Hannah Lavery on new play Protest: 'I wanted to write something about activism'

Life is a Dream PIC: Javier Naval

Edinburgh International Festival: Scotsman critics assess the 2023 programme

Archie Gemmill scores against the Netherlands in the 1978 World Cup, raising hopes that are soon dashed as Scotland go out on goal difference (Picture: SNS Group)

Joyce McMillan: Despite SNP's woes, its kind of green social democracy is future

King Charles is helped by an employee to cut a cake in the shape of a crown during his state visit to Germany last month (Picture: Jens Büttner/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Lavish coronation amid cost-of-living crisis is Brexit-style retro-patriotism

New First Minister Humza Yousaf seems only mildly committed to reform of his party (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

SNP could be heading for a major general election setback – Joyce McMillan

Leila Aboulela PIC: Pako Mera/Shutterstock

Book review: River Spirit, by Leila Aboulela

Nicola Sturgeon celebrates her re-election as MSP for Glasgow Southside in May 2021 (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Under Sturgeon, Scotland could have been among happiest nations – Joyce McMillan

Bailey Newsome and Richard Conlon in Write-Off PIC: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Theatre reviews: Write Off | Class Act

SNP leadership candidates Ash Regan, standing, Kate Forbes and Humza Yousaf at a hustings event (Picture: Andy Buchanan/pool via Getty Images)

SNP voting row adds fuel to fire of conspiracy theorists – Joyce McMillan

Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan at the SNP leadership hustings on 8 March (Picture: Andy Buchanan - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Unconvinced SNP leader race is democratic

Ash Regan, left, Kate Forbes and Humza Yousaf are vying to be the next SNP leader (Picture: Andy Buchanan/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Wrong SNP leader could turn Scotland into a political backwater – Joyce McMillan

Scotland has long had a difficult relationship with alcohol (Picture: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images)

Polarisation of political debate interfering with creation of good policies

Nairobi, 13 December, 1963: Jomo Kenyatta, leader of the Kenya African National Union (KANU), holds the official document of Kenyan independence as he becomes President of Kenya. To his right is the Duke of Edinburgh, representing Queen Elisabeth for the ceremonies. PIC: AFP via Getty Images

Book review: Untied Kingdom, by Stuart Ward

Vladimir Putin's regime exists in an Orwellian alternative universe, where war is good and peace is defeat (Picture: Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Joyce McMillan: World has no option but to fight delusional Putin

The SNP needs to improve relations with the wider Scottish independence movement (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

How SNP can remain Scotland's dominant party without Sturgeon – Joyce McMillan

Trans rights activists protest the Section 35 order to block Scotland's recent Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill outside opposite Downing Street this week (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Don’t blame media for trans bill culture war

Kirsty Logan PIC: Simone Falk

Book review: Now She Is Witch, by Kirsty Logan

Bison released from a corral at the Wildwood Trust nature reserve in Kent in July - the first time the animals have roamed freely in the UK in thousands of years

Readers' Letters: Reasons to be cheerful in an otherwise bleak year

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

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