Teddy Jamieson

There’s an argument to be made for the notion that Band Aid, and the subsequent Live Aid gig, were the culmination of the story of pop music in the UK.

Tis the season to be indulgent (or it soon will be) and if ever there is a time when you can treat others, or even yourself, to a coffee table book this is surely it. So, here are 10 titles that will be fun to leaf through on Christmas Day, but should also keep you reading well into 2025. Book tokens at the ready…

Maybe everything might have been different if Erin Moran’s song Love Actually had actually appeared in the film Love Actually.

The House of Love, The Primitives and The Jesus and Mary Chain are all playing soon in Scotland

It’s not often that radio makes the news, but at 8.30am on Tuesday morning the Radio 2 newsreader Tina Daheley opened her bulletin with a hot-off-the-air headline that Zoe Ball was stepping down from the Breakfast Show

The director of the Edinburgh International Festival reflects on her two years at the helm, on the 'heartbreak' being felt by some in the arts sector and the forthcoming 2025 programme.

There is an argument to be made that comic books started in Scotland. “Possibly the earliest comic paper was The Glasgow Looking Glass,” notes David Roach in his mammoth survey of British comic books, Masters of British Comic Art (Rebellion, 2020). A tabloid-sized newspaper that mixed up illustrations, humorous text and comic strips, The Glasgow Looking Glass published some 19 issues in 1825 and 1826.

Our Price, the record chain, was the subject of this week’s business show Toast on Radio 4.

An old and toxic love: so why was it so alluring?

Great British rock in pictures. See it in Glasgow