The Sexy Lamp problem revisited:

Isabelle Stroud salutes the comic creators fashioning a new wave of female characters

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No vacancies:

Part 2. By Heather Pearson

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Twilight:

A poem by Fiona Ritchie Walker

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Eleanor Buffam:

Cyanotypes by Eleanor Buffam

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The Carry Out:

A true story by Carolyn Roberts

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Letter to the editor:

By Phil Wilson

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On film:

By Gerry Stewart 

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From the archive

Art
Keep On Keepin’ On:

Thirty years on from the miners’ strike, photographer James Parker documents Yorkshire’s last remaining coal mines

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Books
She Punks:

Sam Knee talks to Neil Cooper about Untypical Girls, his new book about pioneering all-female bands from post punk to riot grrrl

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Collaborations
Coastal Aerial View by Alison McGill, Oil and wax on board
The pipeline:

A short story by Frank Rennie, inspired by Alison McGill’s painting ‘Coastal Aerial View’.

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Film
Another News Story:

A moving documentary turns the camera on itself to examine the relationship between corporate media and the human tragedy on which it feeds. By Tamara Abdi

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Ideas
Dinner with my No voting friends:

For years, Scots reacted to right wing Westminster policies by saying: “I didn’t vote for that.” If they win on Thursday, No voters won’t have that luxury, writes Peter Arnott.

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Music
Flowers in the dustbin:

Neil Cooper on a thunderous EP from the Blue Orchids’ latest incarnation

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New Writing
Photo by Stewart Bremner
The end of the habitable world:

A short story by Tracey Emerson

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Poetry
Reflective Landscape Tet Speirs
Strange weather:

By Anna Viceconti

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