13 h. ago Zander Fagerson successor, judicious jackler, booming kicker

It’s a big season for Scotland’s key youngsters to come of age

Politics

24 h. ago Beloved comic and BBC star Gary Little dies in 'climbing accident' as tributes pour in

Award-winning Scottish comedian Gary Little has died at the age of 61, with fellow Scotts comic Kevin Bridges leading tributes to the star who was due to perform next month

Events

25 h. ago Gary Little dead: Comedy icon dies 'climbing a hill' aged 61 as tributes pour in

Iconic Scottish comedian Gary Little has died at the age of 61 with reports claiming his death occurred while he was on a hill climb

Events

58 h. ago Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’

Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the EarthRidding ourselves of fossil fuels has been a tortuously ponderous process and, in the current political era, one that can seem to be in full retreat. But we do have the tools to run our cities, vehicles and industries on clean energy and even through the murk of vested interest, the contours of a post-fossil world are becoming clearer.Our system of producing food, though, is in a relative stone age when it comes to the climate crisis. We continue to raze vast tracts of carbon-rich forests for crop and grazing land thereby creating, by some estimates, as much as a third of all global planet-heating emissions. Continue reading...

Society

1 week ago Historic house that instills the 'Golden Age of Leith' comes onto market for £3.75m

Lamb’s House takes us back to 17th Century Leith when the harbour boomed with merchants and trade.

Economics

1 week ago Historic house that instils the 'Golden Age of Leith' comes onto market for £3.75m

Lamb’s House takes us back to 17th Century Leith when the harbour boomed with merchants and trade.

Economics

3 w. ago Robin Williams facts to mark the wacky awareness day created in his honour

It’s 11 years since comedian Robin Williams died at the age of 63. We remember the icon on his birthday – christened Invite an Alien to Live with You Day by fans

Politics

4 w. ago ‘The entire industry said no’: the story behind seminal teen comedy Clueless at 30

Amy Heckerling, Alicia Silverstone and more involved with the defining 1995 movie talk about their memories of making a film that Hollywood kept passing onIn the early 1990s, the writer-director Amy Heckerling was feeling down. Heckerling had burst on to the scene a decade earlier with Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a groundbreaking coming-of-age comedy of libidinous teens, and scored a surprise box office hit with 1989’s Look Who’s Talking. But she was struggling to fit Hollywood demands. “I was thinking: ‘Oh, I’m never going to make a film that’s what I want it to be, because you can’t have protagonists that are female, you have to do slob comedies, but there’s only a few actors that they accept in those roles, and you don’t get a chance to work with them if you’re a female,’” Heckerling told me recently.With little interest in catering to the prevailing tastes of the day, Heckerling went back to the drawing board: what did she want to write? A true native New Yorker with the accen...

Politics

4 w. ago 'Gráinne O'Hare's Thirst Trap is a quintessential millennial coming of age story

Irish writer Gráinne O'Hare is the next big thing on the literary scene. The Mirror speaks to her about her new literary sensation Thirst Trap, nostalgia, and how to write grief while also remaining funny

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