WRITERS visiting from abroad are “humiliated” by border and customs checks, the head of the Edinburgh Book Festival said today.
Nick Barley said one author had been told to supply his marriage certificate, his daughter's birth certificate and bank statements, before being sent for biometric testing.
The literary celebration is due to open on Saturday, but Mr Barley said they are still awaiting visas for four people scheduled to take part.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
From sexual innuendo about Blackpool Rock to Bob Dylan’s ‘God-almighty world,’ the corporation’s classist moral custodianship of pop music has created a roll call of censored artists anyone would feel honoured to join, writes NICK MATTHEWS
Despite declining to show Kneecap’s set, the BBC broadcast Bob Vylan leading a ‘death to the IDF’ chant — and the resulting outrage has only amplified the very message the Establishment wanted silenced, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The bard gives us advance notice of his upcoming medieval K-pop releases



