Angus Reid | Morning Star

BenchMarx / 5 September 2025

5 September 2025

With a new TV film about the Piper Alpha disaster, ANGUS REID points out the enduring class bias of the official version of events

Theatre review / 6 August 2025

Damp squib

6 August 2025

ANGUS REID squirms at the spectacle of a bitter millennial on work experience in a gay sauna

Film of the week / 31 July 2025

Solidarity with the nurses

31 July 2025

ANGUS REID is bowled over by a cinematic masterpiece that examines the labour of nursing in forensic, dramatic detail

STEADFAST: Orkney Friends of Palestine congragate in front of St Magnis Cathedral, Kirkwall [Pic: Angus Reid]

Britain / 28 May 2025

Orkney Vigil for Palestine

28 May 2025

Music Festival / 28 May 2025

Orkney Folk Festival 2025

28 May 2025

ANGUS REID recommends a visit to an outstanding gathering of national and international folk musicians in the northern archipelago

CONFRONTING HOMOPHOBIA: (L) FCB Cadell, The Boxer, c.1924; (

Exhibition review / 21 March 2025

In the ring with the Colourists

21 March 2025

While the group known as the Colourists certainly reinvigorated Scottish painting, a new show is a welcome chance to reassess them, writes ANGUS REID

BLOOD ON THE TRACKS: Xilun Sun as the mysterious interloper

Film of the Week: / 20 March 2025

Chinese family under the microscope

20 March 2025

ANGUS REID recommends an exquisite drama about the disturbing impact of the one child policy in contemporary China

Short Story / 7 February 2025

Brotherly Love by Angus Reid

7 February 2025

The phrase “cruel to be kind” comes from Hamlet, but Shakespeare’s Prince didn’t go in for kidnap, explosive punches, and cigarette deprivation. Tam is different.

Frantz Fanon at a press conference during a writers' confere

BenchMarx / 28 January 2025

Frantz Fanon and the mestizo novel

28 January 2025

ANGUS REID deconstructs a popular contemporary novel aimed at a ‘queer’ young adult readership

A drawing made at the event Scottish Circus, Fruitmarket Gal

Best of 2024 / 3 January 2025

Angus Reid selects his highlights

3 January 2025

A landmark work of gay ethnography, an avant-garde fusion of folk and modernity, and a chance comment in a great interview

TIMBERS SHIVERED: The cast of Treasure Island at the Royal L

Theatre review / 29 November 2024

Yer swash needs buckling

29 November 2024

ANGUS REID applauds the inventive stagecraft with which the Lyceum serve up Stevenson’s classic, but misses the deeper themes

Gig Review / 6 October 2024

To open a time-capsule of punk

6 October 2024

ANGUS REID time-travels back to times when Gay Liberation was radical and allied seamlessly to an anti-racist, anti-establishment movement

ROLE MODEL FOR BLACK WOMEN: Ruth Mompati in the Soviet Union

Interview / 15 March 2024

The legacy of South Africa’s revolutionary women

15 March 2024

ANGUS REID speaks to historian Siphokazi Magadla about the women who fought apartheid and their impact on South African society

COMICSTRIP OPERA: Roland Wood as Karl Marx in Jonathan Dove'

Theatre review / 22 February 2024

Dodgy cartoon Marx

22 February 2024

ANGUS REID mulls over the bizarre rationale behind the desire to set the life of Karl Marx to music

Jess Hardwick and Shauna MacDonald in David Greig's Two Sist

Theatre Review / 16 February 2024

The lost horizons of adolescence

16 February 2024

ANGUS REID applauds the portrait of two women in a lyrical and compassionate study of sex, shame and nostalgia

THE MISSING LINK: Factories manned by the Red Guards in the

Interview / 26 January 2024

‘Trump is much less well educated than Mussolini’

26 January 2024

ANGUS REID speaks to Mark Cousins about his documentary The March On Rome, commissioned in Italy, about Italian fascism then and now

BenchMarx / 5 January 2024

John Pilger’s mastery of the documentary essay

5 January 2024

ANGUS REID reflects on John Pilger's late films as a popular form of political cinema

Interview / 19 December 2023

Thank you for the music

19 December 2023

ANGUS REID speaks to Romain Malan about his remarkable drive to bring music into deprived communities and healthcare settings

GRIM SIGHT: Light is shone on Edinburgh Academy

Features / 28 November 2023

Spotlight on private school child abuse in Scotland

28 November 2023

The significance of the Scottish historic child abuse inquiry is in how it reveals the workings of British elites that fill the ranks of the government and professional classes, writes ANGUS REID

SCOTS CHEKHOV: Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape

Theatre Review / 11 October 2023

The state of the nation

11 October 2023

ANGUS REID welcomes a penetrating study of a dysfunctional Scottish family at the time of the independence referendum

SERVANT OF THE STATE: (Left) Stephen Dougray Scott as DI Ray

Culture / 19 September 2023

‘You’ve got to love the scabs’

19 September 2023

Angus Reid speaks to IRVINE WELSH about the art and the politics behind his popular ITV series Crime

Adrien Barazzone, Beatriz Brás, Baptiste Coustenoble and Na

Theatre Review / 14 August 2023

Beyond Brecht

14 August 2023

ANGUS REID watches two productions at the EIF that deal in different ways with the consequences of war

Film of the week / 3 August 2023

After Bataclan

3 August 2023

ANGUS REID is astonished by a film of exceptional empathy that addresses a collective trauma

Ward 16 poem, 1972; My Typewriter Is Not Typing Like It Used

Art and Activism / 14 July 2023

Just my type

14 July 2023

On UK Disability Awareness Day ANGUS REID celebrates the art of KEITH ARMSTRONG, a pioneering activist and writer whose unique body of artwork is a vision of protest and peace

DEMONIC ENERGY: (L to R) Regimental Bath, 1985; Trinity, 202

Exhibition Review / 16 June 2023

Is this the proletariat?

16 June 2023

ANGUS REID reels before a gigantic survey of the life and work of Peter Howson

Theatre Review / 12 September 2019

Bloody excellent

12 September 2019

ANGUS REID sees a Jacobean gore-fest brilliantly transformed into a mordant take on contemporary class prejudice