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Jan 12, 2021

Glasgow is a human right

On Sunday, at exactly 11:11am (spooky! *waves at all the Jordan Peele fans*), my friend Craig tweeted a photo of a bench in Queen’s Park. At first glance it was hard to recognise it as a park bench, as it was engulfed in a mountain of brightly coloured broken plastic…

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Glasgow is a human right
Glasgow is a human right

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Jun 15, 2019

A disunited kingdom

When was the last time you felt any kind of collective pride in being ‘British’? For me, it was only 7 years ago, but it feels like a lifetime. It’s certainly arguable, but I feel that the last time the United Kingdom felt any kind of national pride — any…

Brexit

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A disunited kingdom
A disunited kingdom
Brexit

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Aug 6, 2016

Antonia Bird: Giving a Voice to the Voiceless

This month the Filmhouse in Edinburgh are presenting a season celebrating the work of British director Antonia Bird. The season includes a rare screening of the 1993 film Safe, starring (amongst others) Robert Carlyle as a homeless Scot trying to eke out an existence on the streets of London. For…

Homeless

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Antonia Bird: Giving a Voice to the Voiceless
Antonia Bird: Giving a Voice to the Voiceless
Homeless

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Apr 22, 2016

On film criticism’s wiley windy moors

Reporting on Andrea Arnold’s talk at the Tribeca Film Festival, a recent Guardian article chose to focus on the director’s comments on her 2011 adaptation of Wuthering Heights. She described the film as ‘hard to look at’, as the production took place when she was ‘in a dark place’. The…

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Film

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