While the group known as the Colourists certainly reinvigorated Scottish painting, a new show is a welcome chance to reassess them, writes ANGUS REID

ANGUS REID recommends an exquisite drama about the disturbing impact of the one child policy in contemporary China

The phrase “cruel to be kind” comes from Hamlet, but Shakespeare’s Prince didn’t go in for kidnap, explosive punches, and cigarette deprivation. Tam is different.

ANGUS REID deconstructs a popular contemporary novel aimed at a ‘queer’ young adult readership

A landmark work of gay ethnography, an avant-garde fusion of folk and modernity, and a chance comment in a great interview

ANGUS REID applauds the inventive stagecraft with which the Lyceum serve up Stevenson’s classic, but misses the deeper themes

ANGUS REID time-travels back to times when Gay Liberation was radical and allied seamlessly to an anti-racist, anti-establishment movement

ANGUS REID speaks to historian Siphokazi Magadla about the women who fought apartheid and their impact on South African society

ANGUS REID mulls over the bizarre rationale behind the desire to set the life of Karl Marx to music

ANGUS REID applauds the portrait of two women in a lyrical and compassionate study of sex, shame and nostalgia

ANGUS REID speaks to Mark Cousins about his documentary The March On Rome, commissioned in Italy, about Italian fascism then and now

ANGUS REID reflects on John Pilger's late films as a popular form of political cinema 

ANGUS REID speaks to Romain Malan about his remarkable drive to bring music into deprived communities and healthcare settings

The significance of the Scottish historic child abuse inquiry is in how it reveals the workings of British elites that fill the ranks of the government and professional classes, writes ANGUS REID

ANGUS REID welcomes a penetrating study of a dysfunctional Scottish family at the time of the independence referendum

Angus Reid speaks to IRVINE WELSH about the art and the politics behind his popular ITV series Crime

ANGUS REID watches two productions at the EIF that deal in different ways with the consequences of war

ANGUS REID is astonished by a film of exceptional empathy that addresses a collective trauma

On UK Disability Awareness Day ANGUS REID celebrates the art of KEITH ARMSTRONG, a pioneering activist and writer whose unique body of artwork is a vision of protest and peace

ANGUS REID reels before a gigantic survey of the life and work of Peter Howson

ANGUS REID sees a Jacobean gore-fest brilliantly transformed into a mordant take on contemporary class prejudice