Gayle Rankin plays Miss Brodie By David McKinstry David Harrower’s radical reinterpretation of a much-loved Scottish classic, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, is remarkable for its... Continue reading
The Diggers By Professor Gregor Gall As an A-level history student studying the seventeenth century at a grammar school in Buckinghamshire, my teacher was none too pleased... Continue reading
Commons image of Sally Rooney by Frank Barat By Dr. David McKinstry Irish literature has a long tradition of producing writers who capture the mood of the... Continue reading
Art and activism for climate action. Commons image. By Adam Page The first time that I understood revolution was theatre and really understood it in that lizard... Continue reading
By Jim Aitken Omar Hamad grew up loving fairy tales.They took him into other worlds and laterhe would go on to read ‘The Brothers Karamazov.’ Books, like... Continue reading
Culture Matters would like to pay tribute to one of our finest poets, James O’Brien, who passed away on 30th September. As well as featuring James in... Continue reading
By Richard Dulgheriu Resentment I don’t rememberwhen I became angry.That’s the problem.There was no morningwhen I woke upand decidedto hate the world a little.It happened quietly.A little... Continue reading
The Land of Youth, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1546 By Gregor Gall In 1987, as a student seeing indie bands play live in Aberdeen, I first... Continue reading
Paul Marshall, owner of The Spectator, Unherd and GB News. Commons image. By Nick Moss I read Poppy Coburn in the Telegraph,Saying Perhaps you’ve seen itOn a... Continue reading
Policeman Victor Jones carries injured surivor of the Aberfan disaster Susan Maybank, 21 October 1966. Commons image By Mike Jenkins Kids d’ see thin’s like.Ee seen it... Continue reading