‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more
Democracy, birds and hangover cures – famous fans put their questions to the visionary author After the phenomenal global success, not to mention timeliness, of the TV adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale in 2017, Margaret Atwood has been regarded as “a combination of figurehead, prophet and saint”, the [..]
John Swinney: Inverness asylum barracks plan made up 'on the back of an envelope'
John Swinney has accused the Home Office of making up its proposals to house asylum seekers in a Highland barracks "on the back of an envelope".
Hurricane Melissa: Fuel queues for days, diseases spreading and thousands homeless one month on from devastation
‘It’s like everything was cut with blades,’ says a Red Cross official about the wasteland left in the wake of the ‘storm of the century’. Maira Butt reports on the situation