3 d. ago The Two Roberts by Damian Barr review – lost story of a gay art duo

The lives of Scottish artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, who found love and fame and lost it all, are vividly reimaginedWhat if the protagonist of a novel was not a single person but a couple? Damian Barr takes on this challenge, and he’s found a historic couple who make the ideal source material. Working-class Scottish artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun were rarely apart after they met in 1933. They lived and worked together, became famous together and then declined into desperate squalor together – even poorer than when they began.Barr knows what it’s like to conquer Glasgow from a small, working-class town on its outskirts; he knows what it’s like to find yourself feted for your portraits of the place you’ve left irrevocably behind. His memoir, Maggie and Me, was a hard-hitting yet rambunctious tale of growing up gay near Motherwell under Thatcher, uneasily aware that the woman who pushed his parents deeper into poverty also taught him that the ruthless ex...

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9 d. ago Emmerdale's Nicola Wheeler teases 'trouble' as her marriage to Jimmy King faces a snag

The Nicola King actress revealed that things won't stay calm for long in the Dales

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2 w. ago Former Salmond staffer rejects Sturgeon claims in book as ‘obviously false’

Geoff Aberdein, who worked for former first minister Alex Salmond, hit out at his successor over comments made in her newly published memoirs.

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2 w. ago Former Alex Salmond aide blasts Nicola Sturgeon of spreading 'falsehoods' in new book

Geoff Aberdein took aim at some of the claims about his former boss contained in Frankly.

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2 w. ago John Swinney refuses to comment on Nicola Sturgeon’s claims about Alex Salmond

The First Minister refused to comment on claims made by Nicola Sturgeon about former SNP leader Alex Salmond in her memoirs.

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2 w. ago Swinney: My focus is on the future and Scotland – not Sturgeon’s book

The First Minister refused to comment on claims made by Nicola Sturgeon about former SNP leader Alex Salmond in her memoirs.

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2 w. ago ‘There was so much vitriol’: Willis Chimano on being outed while in Africa’s biggest boy band

The Kenyan singer, part of the wildly popular Sauti Sol, faced hatred and threats but it made him determined to push for change in a country where being gay is still illegalComing out as gay was not something Willis Austin Chimano, a member of the Kenyan Afropop band Sauti Sol, had ever considered. From about 2005, when the group – widely considered to be Africa’s biggest boyband – was formed, to 2018, Chimano says he “wore a mask” at work, careful how he acted, spoke and dressed.At the same time, he embraced his queer identity in his private life. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Alex Salmond ally says his widow should drop plan to sue SNP Government over botched sexual harassment probe

EXCLUSIVE: Chris McEleny said he does not believe the former First Minister would have pushed ahead with legal action.

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2 w. ago Nicola Sturgeon making Alex Salmond claims because he cannot defend himself, niece says

Sturgeon's memoirs contained a series of criticisms against her one-time mentor.

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2 w. ago Sturgeon making Salmond claims because he cannot defend himself, niece says

Christina Hendry said her family was united on legal action against the Scottish Government over its botched handling of harassment complaints.

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2 w. ago Alex Salmond would have defended himself against Nicola Sturgeon's memoir 'with every fibre'

Alex Salmond’s family say the allegations against him in Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir are a tactic to try and sell her new book.

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2 w. ago Alex Salmond's widow to push ahead with suing Scottish Government

A family friend said claims in Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir has strengthened Moira Salmond’s resolve

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2 w. ago Alex Salmond's widow suing government over botched sexual harassment probe into late husband

Moira’s determination to pursue the case has been galvanised by criticism of her late husband in Nicola Sturgeon’s book.

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2 w. ago Alex Salmond's family accuse 'cowardly' Nicola Sturgeon of 'cashing in' on his death with smears in new memoir

Christina Hendry, 30, branded the claims, which include attacks on his work ethic and references to alleged womanising, as 'cowardly'.

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2 w. ago The latest trend for newlyweds is... renewing your vows! How barely married celeb couples are going down the aisle AGAIN in unusual trend

At the heart of the latest trend that sees besotted couples take another gander down the aisle is Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham , who renewed their marriage vows to each other this month.

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3 w. ago Sturgeon: I was not victim of ‘coercive control’ by former mentor Salmond

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon was questioned on her relationship with her predecessor at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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3 w. ago Nicola Sturgeon’s immense political talent is undeniable. The nationalism was the problem | Martin Kettle

Many of her admirers gloss over her desire to break up the UK as Scotland’s first minister. But in her open and touching memoir, it plays a starring roleNicola Sturgeon was – and still is – important, talented, personable and, to many, inspirational. She was also extremely lucky and often wrong, sometimes seriously so. There are examples of all these qualities in her newly published memoir, Frankly. Sturgeosceptics should concede at once that it contains much that is fascinating, especially about her relations with her charismatic mentor turned vengeful enemy Alex Salmond. Starry-eyed Sturgies should equally admit she made several deep and lasting errors that have left behind a divided nationalist party and movement.The book is more open and touching about private issues than most political memoirs, although Sturgeon deploys these qualities selectively. Many of the intimate reflections are about being a woman in politics. Other memoirs by female politicians – including those of Marg...

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3 w. ago Sturgeon’s ‘Stalinist’ approach disastrous for SNP, claims Joanna Cherry

Lawyer Joanna Cherry said she has never been friends with former first minister Nicola Sturgeon.

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3 w. ago Nicola Sturgeon book 'causing heartache for Alex Salmond's widow', claims former SNP minister

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Neil said the former first minister's "attacks" on her predecessor are hurting Moira, the later former first minister's widow.

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3 w. ago Nicola Sturgeon 'besmirching a man now dead' with attacks on Alex Salmond in new book

Kenny MacAskill, who succeeded Salmond as Alba Party leader, claimed Sturgeon had "demeaned the office of First Minister".

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