- The Mucking of Craigie’s Byre Rangers owner Craig Whyte banned the BBC from Ibrox because he said a documentary they produced was “muckracking”. He should have banned them because it was just a pile of shit. “Rangers: The Inside Story” was sensationalist and shoddy, a tangled mess of half facts and guilt-by-association. And it didn’t answer the most important question: […]
- This Month in SEAN This month in Scottish Entertainment / Actor News was a bit quiet, but Helygen still brings us all the latest developments relating to Dougray Scott, James McAvoy, Gerard Butler, David Tennant and more.
- Acid Trip After the Liechtenstein-Scotland game last Saturday, two Scottish players were taken into a small room inside the Rheinpark Stadion to produce urine samples for a drug test. UEFA didn’t think the Scottish performance was so good it must have been drug-fuelled; it’s just standard procedure after every international game to test two players from each […]
- Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway – Veronica Falls in the US This month, Vic Galloway has more on Veronica Falls who are touring now with The Drums. They’ll be in Portland tonight and Vancouver tomorrow. Also on tour this month – Admiral Fallow in Dublin, Jack Bruce in Norway and Aiden Moffat with RM Hubbert in Berlin.
- The Scottish Disease I don’t care for rugby, but I visited an egg-chasing friend at the weekend so was obliged to accompany him to his local boozer on Saturday to watch fifteen genetic freaks lumber around under the dreich Auckland skies playing against the Scottish team. After a stout performance where the underdog Scots won an early lead […]
- Indelible Ink: A.L. Kennedy’s ‘Paradise’ There is a lot of alcohol in Scottish fiction, as there is in Scottish fact. Often this becomes an easy stereotype used to denote not only nationality but also social status. There is a belief that alcohol abuse is one of the boxes to tick in the ‘urban, gritty, working class’ novel, but this doesn’t […]
