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| Droogs are brought into the age of girl power |
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The head of Telford College’s drama course, Scott Johnston, has cast his new production of A Clockwork Orange with a female set of Droogs and, with girl gangs high on the list of society’s apparent ills, it’s a relevant reinvention of Anthony Burgess’s future-shocker.
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| How SNP’s pressure for change just might backfire |
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A clear majority of Scots want to stay in the union, but challenges lie ahead, says John Curtice
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| Romeo and Juliet, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh |
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Review: Apparently Prokofiev’s original score for Romeo and Juliet had a happy ending. No such optimism derails the final, tragic conclusion in this compelling new production, premiered by Scottish Ballet on Tuesday.
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| Get rich quick: How the Union made Scottish fortunes |
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An empire of trans-oceanic Scottish trade would not have existed but for the Union of 1707 that resulted in Scottish inclusion within the English system of tariff protection.
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| The Blackbyrds, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh |
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Review: It’s said that if you wait long enough, then every band from your youth – with certain obvious exceptions – will come around again. The Blackbyrds appear never to have gone away.
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| Changing the summer season |
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When John Durnin began his tenure as artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre in 2003, he arrived with a bucket-load of ambition. It wasn't that Pitlochry was in a state of stasis in any way.
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| Why musical youth are seen and not heard |
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Television executives must feel as if they are in an impossible situation these days. It seems they are told constantly to provide quality, intelligent entertainment but in an accessible and fun way that pulls in the viewers.
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| Divided they fell: anti-unionists who could not agree |
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There was considerable popular resistance to the Union of 1707, but it could have been much more effective if Jacobites and Protestants had put aside their disagreements.
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| Speaking from experience: Bob Holman on fellowship |
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Society: The annual conference of the Social Workers Christian Fellowship (SWCF) is one I always attend. I identify strongly with my colleagues in the SWCF. None are rich. All are committed to siding with the most vulnerable members
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| Should police in Scotland film persistent young offenders? |
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Society - Question of the week: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has called for other forces to copy “Operation Leopard”, a police initiative in Essex which sees young people whose behaviour is persistently antisocial videoed by officers, and “harassed”.
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| Centrica accused |
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| Search for substance |
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| Queen is majestic in handling of visit to tense area |
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| Morally bankrupt response to disaster in the delta |
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| High heels, silk sheets: is this the best we can do? |
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| Madness is the upshot of Westminster cabin fever |
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| Modern scourge robs the young of childhood |
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| If the leadership is broke, why wait to fix it? |
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| A defining moment of Labour’s disintegration |
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| Just the ticket |
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| Appeal to faiths just complicates embryos issue |
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| Dairy farmers in worst position in my lifetime |
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| Why I put my head in a cold compress, BT |
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| Death by distance |
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| Committed to classical music on the BBC |
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| Scrapping Britain’s commitment to replacing Trident would resolve our fiscal uncertainties |
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| Adam Smith’s home |
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| Holocaust of womb |
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| Slippery nature of Scottish snakes |
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| Society must address the moral status of embryos |
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| A salt and battery |
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| Hackles raised |
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| Helping hand |
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| Just the ticket |
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| Dispiriting |
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| Heavy price of junk food culture |
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| Today's picks |
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| Ladytron, Oran Mor, Glasgow |
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| Marissa Nadler, Stereo, Glasgow |
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| Scottish Philharmonic Orchestra, Oran Mor, Glasgow |
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| Zarraberri/Limbo, Oran Mor, Glasgow |
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| Tift Merritt, Pleasance Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh |
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| Magpie, Dundee Rep |
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| The City, Royal Court Theatre, London |
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| Death Story, Oran Mor, Glasgow |
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| Alasdair Gray: Now And Then, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow |
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| Stephen Shankland: artist |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Carling Academy, Glasgow |
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| Big in Falkirk, Callendar Park, Falkirk |
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| Pendulum, Carling Academy, Glasgow |
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| Music: RSNO, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall |
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| Music: BBC SSO, Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow |
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| Pat Eady: An appreciation |
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| Irena Sendler |
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| Jeff Torrington |
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| Klaus Dinger |
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| Nicky Ross |
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