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Cinema / 6 August 2026

Film round up August 6 2026

6 August 2026

MICHAL BONCZA, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and ANGUS REID review Atlas of Disappearance, Love Me Tender, Bouchra, and This Tempting Madness

TV series review / 26 August 2025

Disney impress

26 August 2025

ANGUS REID questions whether a human scriptwriter is behind the multiple plagiarisms of Disney’s much-lauded and vacuous extension of the Alien franchise

Art festival / 16 June 2025

Unions - take notice please

16 June 2025

ANGUS REID applauds the ambitious occupation of a vast abandoned paper factory by artists mindful of the departed workforce

BenchMarx / 22 May 2025

Misrepresenting the working class

22 May 2025

ANGUS REID calls for artists and curators to play their part with political and historical responsibility

HONOURED: The Monument to International Brigades on the site

BOOKS / 29 January 2023

The veterans of Spain

29 January 2023

ANGUS REID recommends a landmark work of aural history that follows the intertwined lives of four International Brigaders

Gloria Abernethy sells the Black Panther newspaper while Tam

Photography / 23 December 2022

Lessons of individual development rather than collective or political consciousness

23 December 2022

ANGUS REID reviews a book that is an important and comprehensive work of documentation

WISH-FOR PANEL: Mick Lynch, Jeremy Corbyn, Neil Findlay?

Edinburgh International Book Festival round up / 2 September 2022

An exclusively marketing event disappoints with vacuity of ‘debates’

2 September 2022

ANGUS REID harks back to the times, not that distant, when debates were fearsome confrontations about contemporary, pressing issues

Four Dutch actors share the main role as Eddy

Theatre Review / 21 August 2022

Unrelentingly painful story

21 August 2022

ANGUS REID is moved by a brutally honest narration about growing up gay in a working-class community

Theatre Review / 10 August 2022

Dramatising a forgotten area of society

10 August 2022

ANGUS REID warmly applauds a play inspired by a real-life union campaign against zero-hours contracts

A section of Suprematist works by Malevich exhibited at the

BOOKS / 9 August 2022

The Black Square of contention

9 August 2022

ANGUS REID argues that what might have been impersonal for Kazimir Malevich has had a profound practical application for artists who embraced the October Revolution

Books / 22 July 2022

Why do 'queer studies' omit the socialist record?

22 July 2022

ANGUS REID fills the blanks left by a biased academic perspective

(L to R) Expo 1958 Philips Pavilion and Iannis Xenakis in hi

Music Review / 19 July 2022

The mesmerising Xenakis

19 July 2022

On the centenary of the incomparable Greek composer’s birth ANGUS REID recalls and recommends a new recording of his Pleiades and Persephassa

Preview / 16 June 2022

Fair Pley and Unite the Union demand a Fair Fringe Now

16 June 2022

Tom Cruise as Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell

OPINION / 14 June 2022

Mind games from a rapidly waning empire

14 June 2022

ANGUS REID takes issue with the pernicious imperial sabre-rattling purveyed by a dying empire in the latest edition of Top Gun

Musical / 3 June 2022

Sunshine on Leith – let’s have a roaring singalong to finish the night!

3 June 2022

This production badly needs a knowing nod to the audience and a contemporary riff, suggests ANGUS REID

OFF THE MARK Laura Evelyn and Bettrys Jones (as Ellen Wilkin

Theatre Review / 9 May 2022

A comic-strip version of history

9 May 2022

A production full of empty symbols and bereft of the 'epic' structure that might do it justice doesn't impress ANGUS REID

Theatre Review: / 28 April 2022

The Dodo Experiment

28 April 2022

Exhibition / 3 April 2022

A painfully beautiful vision without illusions

3 April 2022

ANGUS REID ponders the psychology behind the arresting canvases of the working class painter Maurice Wade

Elaine Brown, second from right, and other BPP members taken

Book Review / 1 April 2022

Thrilling confessional candour about the time of the Panthers

1 April 2022

ANGUS REID highly recommends a memoir of high literary merit written in concise, finely crafted and fast-moving prose

Graves of the children of the Karabudak family murdered in t

Book Review / 3 December 2021

An opportunistic misinterpretation of Brecht’s intentions

3 December 2021

ANGUS REID challenges a narrative that has no interest in reality or politics and uses Brecht to side with the cultural right wing, the partisans of Greek ethnic superiority

Dejected workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Falkirk,

Book Review / 28 November 2021

Personal snapshots that are windows onto a peoples’ ongoing history

28 November 2021

Highly responsible and necessary work that opens up a goldmine, writes ANGUS REID

Thomas Sankara, Head of State and President of the National

Culture / 22 November 2021

2021 round-up with Angus Reid

22 November 2021

On the new biography of Africa’s murdered revolutionary, working-class Scots of distinction and memorable theatre productions

CONSUMMATE: Lorn MacDonald as Sigismundo

Theatre Review / 3 November 2021

Devastating theatre offers a totalised view of humanity

3 November 2021

ANGUS REID recommends a production that explores the urgent need to be reacquainted with the dangers of repression and the difficult path to selfhood

GROTESQUE: (Left) Richard Scheibe, Memorial of the Victims o

Opinion / 22 September 2021

West German art - ‘Nazis welcome here?’

22 September 2021

Hitler’s designated ‘divinely gifted’ artists, who basked in Nazi glory and favour, found welcome continuity after 1945 as the new art ubermenschen of the anti-communist Federal Republic, writes ANGUS REID

POLAR OPPOSITES: The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Futureland

Opinon / 22 September 2021

‘Taking arms against a sea of troubles’

22 September 2021

ANGUS REID looks at two productions with equally noble aims and at how one succeeds admirably where the other fails utterly

Interview / 11 September 2021

‘Something that makes people better is revolutionary’

11 September 2021

JO CLIFFORD talks to Angus Reid about politics, life and most of all theatre of which she is a controversial and acclaimed practitioner

The performance and its inspiration an image from Andreas Ve

Music/Dance / 27 August 2021

Dicing with death and resurrection

27 August 2021

A demanding work that stares wide-eyed at the material realities of the finite human body

(L to R) Girl with a Poke of Chips, 1960 – 63; Seascape, c

Exhibition Review / 19 August 2021

A woman for all seasons

19 August 2021

A wondrous celebration of Joan Eardley - the great painter who transformed the languages of the past, and who dared incoherence to advance the language of the present, writes ANGUS REID

RURAL IDYLL: DH Lawrence (right) in West Berkshire, 1919

LITERATURE / 9 July 2021

Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence

9 July 2021

Politically illiterate biography of a great working-class writer

XMAS WAR: President Thomas Sankara (front) visits the front

BOOKS / 31 May 2021

‘He was committed to ideals’

31 May 2021

BRIAN PETERSON, the first historian to publish a biography in English of the West African revolutionary Thomas Sankara, talks to Angus Reid about what inspired the iconic leader, assassinated in 1987 after only four years in power

SPOKEN-WORD POETRY ONLINE / 30 May 2021

Exiles

30 May 2021

Victoria McNulty’s bitter-sweet Glasgow kiss of a prose-poem is a stunning response to class oppression

THEATRE ONLINE / 27 May 2021

Hindu Times

27 May 2021

With no suspense or dramatic development, Jaimini Jethwa's play is more an exercise in language than theatre

STALWARTS: LGSM veterans at a showing of Pride in 2015

BOOKS / 11 May 2021

Between Worlds: A queer boy from the valleys

11 May 2021

Personal preoccupations obscure political clarity in engaging gay memoir

PAINTING / 7 March 2021

Eye of the Storm

7 March 2021

Outstanding documentary on one of Scotland's great landscape artists

(Left) PloughedFfield South Farr and (right) Black Crow by a

EXHIBITION ONLINE / 18 January 2021

Artless anti-life

18 January 2021

ANGUS REID is unimpressed by the reactionary undertow in an exhibition of melancholic Perthshire landscapes and photographs

David Wilkie, Distraining for Rent (1815)

BOOKS / 30 December 2020

A question of identity

30 December 2020

ANGUS REID ponders on a book and an exhibition that highlight the divide between art and nation in Scottish painting

INDEFATIGABLE: Maria Fyfe (far right) in front of Mary Barbo

Books / 13 December 2020

Maria Fyfe: A working-class hero is something to be

13 December 2020

ANGUS REID recommends the brilliant memoir of a Labour activist and politician who never lost sight of her roots

Best of 2020: Books / 7 December 2020

Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-century Britain

7 December 2020

Sam Wetherell's landmark study of the built environment

(L to R) In Depth, 1948-9; The Dance c1948

Exhibition / 20 November 2020

When less is actually more

20 November 2020

ANGUS REID discovers a choice exhibition of Alexander Zyw work - a Pole who adopted Edinburgh in the aftermath of WWII

HEARTBREAKING: Maureen Carr, Jonathan Watson, Suzanne Magowa

Film / 7 November 2020

A tender portrayal of real people

7 November 2020

The memorable and moving play has now been filmed to great dramatic effect

FORENSICALLY FUNNY: Denise Mina in rehearsal

INTERVIEW / 2 March 2020

The heart of the Matti

2 March 2020

DENISE MINA tells Angus Reid why she's updated Brecht's anti-capitalist satire to the era of zero-hours contracts and food banks

INDOMITABLE: Tomasz Kitlinski in his element – the classro

Features / 16 January 2020

Polish state complicit in escalation of homophobia

16 January 2020

ANGUS REID draws attention to the case of Tomasz Kitlinski, an academic targeted by a provincial governor in an increasing vociferous campaign of LGBT witch-hunting