Press articles regularly feature complaints about the poor coverage of music on television. You can see the point when the BBC even treats its own Choir of the Year competition so meanly, squeezing a pre-recorded and edited version of the final into a 90 minute slot on BBC 4.

When I was in Glasgow last month for a Creative Scotland meeting, I had an hour spare before it started, and took the chance to have a wander, and survey the present state of the ‘Merchant City’.

The Scottish Government has set out a Culture and External Affairs Budget which protects support for the creative industries and access to high-quality cultural experiences, according to Minister for Culture and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop.

Sir Sandy Crombie (Chairman) and Andrew Dixon (Chief Executive) respond to the Scottish Government’s budget announcement.

An ageing arts bureaucrat surveys the scene and wonders where the new generation will come from

Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 29 October 2010, and touring.

Whenever, as now, there’s the prospect of serious cuts in arts funding, there will always be someone who’ll say ‘no matter what happens to the funding, artists won’t stop making art’.

Last Friday to the HISEZ conference at the Centre for Health Sciences, which, incidentally, is one of the many remarkable new buildings which now grace Inverness.

I was travelling for most of last week, and so it was only while surfing the Internet on the train back from Edinburgh that, in the space of an hour, I learned of the deaths of two of my favourite writers, Frank Kermode and Edwin Morgan, both, coincidentally, aged 90.

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