Malcolm Jack

From rolling parks to eye-popping cathedrals, here’s our rundown of the very best things to do in Glasgow once lockdown lifts

From laid-back bistros to swish fine-diners, here’s our pick of the best restaurants in Glasgow to book as soon as lockdown lifts.

An orbital space port could boost northern Scotland’s economy. But the proposed site, on fragile peatland, raises environmental concerns.

Welcome to the award-winning Scotsman Sessions. With performing arts activity curtailed for the foreseeable future, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, Glasgow-bas…

Welcome to the award-winning Scotsman Sessions. With performing arts activity curtailed for the foreseeable future, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, lockdown-fo…

Welcome to the award-winning Scotsman Sessions. With performing arts activity curtailed for the foreseeable future, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, Glasgow ban…

‘I got this call: do you want to audition for a show about video games? It sounded exactly the thing a dweeb with round glasses could do’

’[...] In this latest video, plainclothes police officers are seen dumping one body in the back of t

Welcome to the award-winning Scotsman Sessions. With performing arts activity curtailed for the foreseeable future, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, from her ho…

Jenni Fagan’s new novel, Luckenbooth, is about an Edinburgh tenement and the curse that haunts it. She tells Malcolm Jack about the forces that shaped it – and about the memoir she wrote last year after contracting Covid-19 which may never see the light of day

The political rage on the streets of Belarus is being soundtracked by a decades-old rock anthem

The film about the Stasi spying on East German lovers was seen as too dark, with one funder even wanting it remade as a comedy. But it went on to win an Oscar

Friends since the 1990s, Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh and John King team up to present a triptych of page-turning novellas

Welcome to The Scotsman Sessions. With performing arts activity curtailed for the foreseeable future, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, Franz Ferdinand’s Julian …

It’s 40 years since Björn Ulvaeus got drunk and penned Abba’s most enduring heartbreaker in his songwriting hideaway. Malcolm Jack took a trip there to pay homage

Welcome to The Scotsman Sessions. With the performing arts world shutting down for the foreseeable future, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, Sorren Maclean and H…

Welcome to The Scotsman Sessions. With the performing arts world shutting down for the foreseeable future, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, Lomond Campbell, aka…

Cancelled gigs and increased touring costs could spell financial nightmare for the music industry. It’s time we faced up to the reality of the situation.

Seven years after his last solo album, singer-songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff returns to his folk roots for his powerful new record And It’s Still Alright.

Prolific cult musician Patrick Doyle took his own life in 2018. But the release of a posthumous album is a fitting tribute to a unique talent.