Politics
Given that the people of Scotland will vote in a few months on whether they believe Scotland should be an…
Giving his personal experience of working in Communist Eastern Europe, former Foreign Correspondent Peter…
Tam Dalyell, Paul Rogers and Ruth Wishart came into the RBS Main Theatre well before the start of the session…
The ‘Two Minute Manifesto’ caravan came to a halt at the Traverse on the day of the Scottish Parliament…
"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art".
Andy Warhol
Do you ever feel utterly overwhelmed by the constant flow of news, pounded by the endless atrocities…
Paddy Ashdown spoke at the Baker Tilly Event which was chaired by the BBC "Today" presenter James Naughtie.
Professor Paul Broda was introduced by Tam Dalyell who said that it must be unique to have two fathers who…
The Speigeltent at the Edinburgh International Book Festival was near stowed for what promised to be a lively…
John McCarthy was introduced by Allan Little for this inaugural Frederick Hood Memorial Lecture. It was…
One of the most respected economic commentators of our times, Joseph Stiglitz made a clearly welcome return…
These two speakers, both acknowledged experts on their subjects, gave a succinct analysis of the current…
Roy Hattersley is a regular visitor to the Edinburgh Book Festival and a prolific author in his own right, so…
Stella Feehily’s ‘This May Hurt A Bit’ is, in some ways, a play about nostalgia, and is none the worse for…
The first debate on ‘Would Culture Lose its Shine in an Independent Scotland?’ promised we
‘The Annals of the Canongate Parish’ has a promising title, and manages to live up to it, though not perhaps…
The performance of ‘Hora’ by Israeli dance company, Batsheva, was completely overshadowed by the human rights…
James Naughtie introduced Alistair Darling for this Thomas Miller Investment Event which was held fittingly…
Harold Pinter - playwright, director, actor, worthy winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, who died…
This was the second debate in the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s trilogy of events under the title ‘…