A total of seven Cabinet ministers – including the current Foreign Secretary and Scottish Secretary – accused the US president of “misogynism, racism and xenophobia” on the eve of his 2019 visit. A ...

AS artists and audiences prepare for the tremendous carnival of culture that is Edinburgh in August, it is worth considering the significance of ...

THE SNP has threatened to “force a vote” and bring forward legislation for the UK to recognise Palestinian statehood, in a bid to heap ...

A GAZA dentist turned soup kitchen volunteer has lifted the lid on the horrors of starvation gripping the territory.

A SCOTTISH playwright has revealed how their latest production was inspired by a desire to get audiences to recognise the war crimes being ...

A SMALL empty birdcage. A paramedic’s uniform. Crayon drawings of a boy flying a kite. As I passed the objects one by one, they seemed to ...

It has already won critical acclaim from both audiences and critics in the US, but playwright Gabriel Jason Dean told the Sunday National he was a little nervous about showing Rift in Edinburgh this ...

ACCORDING to John Swinney, people think it’s the duty of the First Minister of Scotland to meet the American president during his ...

OUR televisions and digital devices have become a battleground where the reporting of what’s happening in Gaza is being played out by ...

A WISE man once said that sheep only have two goals in life – to escape and to die. One usually follows the other in pretty short order.

BUM-CLENCHINGLY expensive is how one performer has described the cost of bringing a show to the Edinburgh Fringe. Story after story has appeared in the media about the spiralling costs but some ...

DEAR billionaires, I think we can all agree that you’ve won capitalism. If the goal of capitalism is to accumulate wealth via the canny ...