Communal singing is uplifting and radical, veteran post punk Boff Whalley tells Neil Cooper

By Ronnie McCluskey

Is HyperNormalisation journalism or entertainment? Sibylla Kalid sifts through the arguments

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Jade Starmore, a photographer and textile designer from the Hebrides, creates wearable art inspired by the Scottish landscape

 A spellbinding collection of short stories is Naomi Richards’ Book of the Year

This short story by April L Ford was inspired by Hazel Gore’s painting ‘Living Alone in Paradise’. It comes with a trigger warning for rape and sexual assault.

Aidan Moffat’s foray into traditional music began mischievously but ended up being very moving, writes Alistair Braidwood

Is love past its sell-by date? Hannah McGill (part one) thinks she’s better off without it, while Paul McLean (part two) skips through a buttercup meadow hand in hand wi’ his gie bonnie lass.

Neil Cooper on the return of the lustrous Special Love

A short story by Peter Burnett

A poem by Maxine Rose Munro