It's in keeping with Chou Pahrot’s reputation as one of Scotland’s most idiosyncratic and adventurous groups that their live album should turn out not to be ‘live’ at all.

The Scottish Government will miss its child poverty targets by miles without radical action, critics warn. Ministers point to the constraints they face, but there’s more Holyrood could do, writes Rebe...

Scottish theatre is on something of a roll just now in a series of hit shows that mark something of a return for big plays with big ideas that don’t tell you what to think. Long may it continue, says ...

Review: Kevin Bridges, OVO Hydro, Glasgow, five stars: It’s hard to think of a more popular stand-up comedian in the country right now

Review: The Undertones: 50th Anniversary Show, 02 Academy, Glasgow

Scaffolding is the business to be in, it seems. Each week, residents evacuated from a crumbling Glasgow tenement must pay £5,000 a week for the gargantuan lattice of metal poles holding up their build...

Radio 4’s Rewinder should really be my favourite programme on the radio. It’s the history of the medium cut up and clipped into soundbites.…

Theatre review: Happy Days, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Five stars, Sept 2026: Siobhán Redmond and Forbes Masson impress in Samuel Beckett's…

Alice Strang’s new book explores the Scottish Colourists—Peploe, Fergusson, Cadell and Hunter—and their growing importance in European art…

The Spartans weren’t a race of supermen as their 20th century totalitarian admirers imagined. They were cowardly, duplicitous, prone to…

A year after reopening following a major redevelopment, the Citizens Theatre has re-established itself as one of Scotland's most ambitious…

The Whaler’s Wife at Òran Mór is a haunting new drama by Izzy Gray, combining Orcadian folklore, sea shanties and powerful performances in a…

Theatre review: Antigone, Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Neil Cooper, four stars

A major Edinburgh auction is expected to raise £500,000 as a mystery collector sells one of Scotland’s most comprehensive collections of post-war…

Over four decades, artists connected with Glasgow’s Transmission Gallery have gone on to achieve international recognition, including winning or…

The Scottish Gallery’s Christina Jansen discusses Edinburgh art, Scottish artists, Shetland studio visits, collectors, exhibitions and its…

The Wargame, Sky/Now, Monday-Thursday, Alison Rowat, two stars: A fictional Russian attack forces political rivals into an unlikely coalition…

The return of Boards Of Canada with Inferno has reignited fascination with the duo. But what makes the reclusive Scottish brothers such a musical…

Arts funding cuts and the rising cost of the Edinburgh Fringe are shutting working-class artists out of TV, theatre and comedy across Scotland warn…

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie is returning to the Scottish stage at the Edinburgh Lyceum - here's what you need to know

Review: Saint Etienne, Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, Four stars: A joyous, heart-breaking farewell gig

The demise of The Skinny serves as a warning for just how fragile the infrastructure for independent cultural thought can truly be.

Review: PP Arnold, Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock, Four stars: The 1960s singer worked with the biggest names in rock

As the government tells us to stockpile food and water, and Channel 4 turns mass death into a game show in Apocalypse, our Writer at Large Neil…

Theatre review: Feel_Good, Òran Mór, Glasgow, Neil Cooper, four stars: In every dream home there is heartache for the couple at the centre of Amy…

Explore Scotland’s autumn art exhibitions, from Jill Furmanovsky and Dinos Chapman, in Glasgow, Kilmarnock, Dundee, Greenock and Stirling.

Film review: Premature: If in your mind romance plus comedy plus cinema equals cut-glass accents, lavish country weddings and Home Counties types…

With critics of the BBC ganging up on it at every opportunity, Rosemary Goring puts the case for the defence

Aidan Moffat talks ageing, mortality, social media and why Arab Strap chose to mark 30 years by making the new album Half-Told Tales

Radio 2 in the Park in Stirling was sparkly tops, Camo raincoats and Wellington Boots

Oidhche nam Bàrd brings 1,000 years of Gaelic poetry to life at Glasgow’s Tramway ahead of the Royal National Mòd’s return to the city.

The morning roll UNESCO row exposed Scotland at its most self-deprecating - and its saddest

As Glasgow Cathedral Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary, audiences can expect four days of boundary-pushing music, immersive art and…

Crime writer Val McDermid has teamed up with Jo Sharp, the  Geographer Royal for Scotland, for a new take on the Darien Venture.

Oscar-nominated actor Michael Shannon joins Jason Narducy in Edinburgh for a celebration of R.E.M.’s Life’s Rich Pageant and deep cuts.

Katie Taylor’s final fight at Dublin’s Croke Park, BBC Radio 5 Live’s coverage and the radio returns of Trevor Nelson and Zoe Ball lead this…

Discover Scotland’s autumn and winter festivals, from Bloody Scotland and Wigtown Book Festival to Glasgow’s Royal National Mod and Edinburgh…

Theatre review: The Tailor of Inverness, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Neil Cooper, Five stars: Matthew Zajac’s now almost twenty-year-old solo…

Sheep have been an indispensable part of Polly Pullar’s life since her childhood in Ardnamurchan was enlivened by Lulu, a mischievous pet…

Three years after a disastrous proposal, Gordy and Ash are reunited in the final series of the hit Aussie sitcom, Colin from Accounts, BBC Two,…

The Kelpies, the Falkirk Wheel, Roman history and whisky heritage make Falkirk an underrated gem

From punk's wildest days to chart-topping stardom, Adam and the Ants guitarist Marco Pirroni shares stories from music history's front line

Alan Cumming returns to the stage, Simon Russell Beale becomes Liberace and George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece gets a new look.

From the lyrics, then, it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that Moffat spends a lot of time on his phone, enraged by what he sees on his…

Even a genuine love for The Smiths can be off-putting coming from a politician.

It doesn’t take a lot to make me feel old these days. Mostly because I am. But, gosh, Lewis Capaldi didn’t waste any time when he turned up on…

Geology is often forgotten about, even though it’s all around us every day in the technology we use, from the raw materials and critical minerals…