The new law updates and extends early 1980s legislation. Glasgow City Council has pledged to find ways to work around it, after it a furious response in the city over the weekend with Alex Kapranos, singer of the band Franz Ferdinand, writing on...

Janny on the Tranny T-shirts have been hastily produced. Celebrities have rallied to the cause. In the past few days, members of Scotland’s music royalty, including Edwyn Collins and Franz Ferdinand singer Alex Kapranos, have posted their dismay. On...

The musician Edwyn Collins told the BBC on Twitter that Forsyth was the "jewel in your crown", adding "it's not too late to change your mind. This is daft"; Rankin's fellow crime writer Val McDermid said it was "time we organised a protest march",...

I'd be interested in actually writing something totally new together at some point in the future as opposed to presenting Hubby with an old traditional song to arrange, although I am very fond of that song and am very happy with Hubby's treatment of it.

Thirteen Lost and Found, that's produced by Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos and features Aidan Moffat, Emma Pollock, Alasdair Roberts, Hanna Tuulikki, Paul Savage and many more (thirteen in total). Also: modest. Let us trace the roots of the album, via...

Kapranos’ latest protégé, Citizens!, met in the grim early hours of the morning, at the bitter end of a house party. Amongst the cigarette butts and unconscious bodies, Tom and Lawrence bonding over their failure to pick up girls that night, and a...