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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.

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A protest group use visual satire to call out the double speak of a major global oil corporation and the celebrities who endorse them

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Alistair Braidwood admires this thrilling, thorough take on a golden age of Scottish music

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Michael Moore returns with a characteristically clever documentary about alternatives to war, writes Robert Gallacher

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Karate Priest, Rhubaba, Leith. By Hugo Fluendy 

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