These remote and rocky islands off Scotland’s western coast offer visitors an ethereal beauty that goes perfectly with a splash of local whisky. These remote and rocky islands off Scotland’s western ...

International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 4, No. 1 (February 2010), pp. 319-344 (26 pages) Working with Foucault’s and Butler’s theorisation of the norm and the political possibilities that may be ...

On an empty road behind the sweep of Scarista Beach, where ocean winds were flattening the dune grasses, stood a lone white house. It could have been a drawing from a storybook: steep-roofed, a little ...

ALTHOUGH not entirely the anomaly in this year's Edinburgh International Festival that it first appeared – German composer Hans Zender's "Composed Interpretation" of Schubert's Winterreise takes some ...

In Stornoway, the biggest town in Scotland's Outer Hebrides islands, a yellow van sits on a narrow, one-way street. The Gaelic word leabharlann is painted on the front, back and sides, with its ...

For its 25th anniversary, the Scottish new music group (although its output delves a bit further back in time than that description might suggest) had commissioned a brand new chamber opera from ...

To be honest, though, The Iris Murder was a pretty mystifying experience, as elusive as it was allusive – but bewitching nonetheless. To a libretto by New Zealand-born, now UK-based poet John Gallas, ...