Fair to say, we could all do with a laugh, right now. So this year’s Glasgow International Comedy Festival couldn’t be better timed. Here's @teddyjamieson.bsky.social with 10 to see

This Middle East crisis shows once again why we need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, says @becmcq.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Review: California Schemin' - "Out of all James McAvoy's famous friends who could appear in the film, surely there was someone better and less off-putting than James Corden?" @heraldscotland.bsky.social @derekmcarthur.bsky.social

'If Scotland had ever produced the Who', Roger Daltrey declared, 'we’d have been called the Fratellis!' @heraldscotland.bsky.social

It's 30 years since Siobhan Redmond last shoved a trolley up Air Scotia’s aisle at 40,000 feet. “In the advent of the intervening years, they’ve made The High Life look like cinema verite,” she says. @paulenglishwords.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @siobhanredmond.bsky.social

Matilda review: There are some wonderfully realised set-pieces that stem from the audaciously playful book and the lyrical cheek of Tim Minchin’s showtunes. @neilcooper.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

James Watt and Brewdog represent the worst excesses of millennial hustle culture and performative rebellion. The entire brand is dated and should be left in 2007, where it belongs, says @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social #brewdog

Review: Odd, downbeat, occasionally funny and often moving this first feature from New York-based Edinburgher Seàn Dunn has a top flight Scottish cast led by Peter Mullan and Gayle Rankin and fast-rising newcomer Lewis MacDougall @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Glasgow is becoming impossible for artists to live and work in. Soon it will be as bad as Edinburgh, for Christ's sake!

REVIEW: This is a wild two hours of music and patter. A variety of objects are thrown onto the stage, including a Saltire, a T-shirt with the legend Drogheda Diana and a bra (which inevitably CMAT puts on). @teddyjamieson.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @cmatbaby.bsky.social

A Glasgow arts centre is facing turmoil as its cultural tenants report eviction notices and steep rent hikes, raising fresh questions over how the city values its independent creative community. @neilcooper.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

'The vehemence with which everyone joins in on the lyrics of It’s Not Fair suggests that premature ejaculation may be a bigger problem than is sometimes imagined' @teddyjamieson.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @thelilyallen.bsky.social

Melbourne author Laura McCluskey has always felt her Scottish roots tugging at her. Even so, you would never guess that this book was written half a world away. @lauramccluskey.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Aonghas MacNeacail is quite literally a man who travels with a song in his heart. @heraldscotland.bsky.social

When I was growing up, Big John was often out and about in our local community He always seemed to make time to engage gently and kindly with exuberant fans. More than once he made my day by giving a cheery nod and a few words when squeals of 'Big John!' filled the air when me and my pals saw him.

Solvej Balle's books capture the soul of our times, just as TS Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land, or Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, captured the soul of the early 20th century, says @neilmackay.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

The new Morrissey album is a reminder that no one writes like him or sings like him or hates like him or loves like him: we still need him @heraldscotland.bsky.social @brianjaffa.bsky.social #morrissey

How Edinburgh's The Exploited invented hardcore punk @heraldscotland.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social

Review: George Costigan and Matthew Kelly embody Vladimir and Estragon in Beckett’s mould breaking piece of mid 20th century existential vaudeville with a tragicomic rapport that comes through a lifetime of shared experience. @heraldscotland.bsky.social @neilcooper.bsky.social

Glasgow Film Festival review: The film has a great cast, plenty of that winning, Jarmuschian oddness which is such a key ingredient of his films, and (it goes without saying) peerless music choices. But there’s an aimlessness to it @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Classic Scottish albums: Idlewild: The story of One Hundred Broken Windows @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Trainspotting at 30: It’s not tough to love Danny Boyle’s film. Yes, it creaks a bit. Who doesn’t? But it feels almost as fresh and audacious now as it did when it blew a hole in the fortress wall and allowed a horde of Caledonian talent through the breach. @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Glasgow Film Festival review: Rose of Nevada @heraldscotland.bsky.social @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social

The Alasdair Gray legend seemed to involve a lot of alcohol. “He did enjoy a drink … If you were putting it politely. And he frequently had far too much.” @teddyjamieson.bsky.social @brianjaffa.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

The culture of secrecy that defines the royal family could be the very thing that threatens its future, says @becmcq.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Scottish Opera review: There are very good performances, notably from Chloe Harris and Luvo Maranti, and especially from tenor Shengzhi Ren who, like bass Edward Hawkins, doubles two roles. @scottishopera.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @brianjaffa.bsky.social

Fans have gathered from all over - Glasgow, Florida, even Dreghorn - to join Belle and Sebastian 30th anniversary celebrations @teddyjamieson.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @belleandsebastian.bsky.social

If I picture the south side, I see Alpha Industries bomber jackets, independents with limited opening hours and a penchant for drama. I can smell the warm vegetal scent of fruit wafting down Victoria Road, hear the bicycles whizzing past @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Hot on Calvin Harris' heels comes a new generation of Scottish DJs and producers at the cutting edge of electronic music @barrycantswim.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @hannahlaing.bsky.social @brianjaffa.bsky.social

Review: With a plethora of Scottish police procedurals on the shelves, it’s getting harder than ever to distinguish one Detective Inspector’s core team from another. DI Lomond, though, suggests depths worth exploring @heraldscotland.bsky.social @polygon.com

Since the advent of digital idiocy with the creation of sites like Twitter, Orwell has become, perhaps, the most quoted writer who has ever lived, says @neilmackay.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Nearly all of us have already consumed forever chemicals. They’re in our blood. They are also - men, close your eyes and maybe cross your legs, - in our testicles too. @teddyjamieson.bsky.social reviews Radio 4's Toxic! @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Review: The Edinburgh-born criminal barrister-turned-author was a contestant The Traitors, proving a huge viewer favourite thanks to her shrewd eye and knack for powerful rhetoric - so what's her new book like? @susanswarbrick.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @wildfirebooks.bsky.social

From wildlife to politics and architecture, the next few weeks see a tranche of fascinating exhibitions opening across Scotland @heraldscotland.bsky.social @teddyjamieson.bsky.social @vadundee.bsky.social

Nigel Farage worries the British economy will collapse due to people hanging up washing in their coffee break while working from home. @rebeccamcq.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Once you tire of the tricoloured tribute act, get yourself to a proper pub. Glasgow is full of them, says @neilmackay.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Who are our cities are for? The people who actually live in them - or the speculators slamming up student flats @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Scottish crime writer Doug Johnstone has written 20 books in 20 years - frankly, that is just showing off says @teddyjamieson.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @dougjohnstone.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social

Wuthering Heights: 'As the white, upper-class daughter of a celebrity jewellery designer, Emerald Fennell says she simply envisioned white characters when reading the novel, which many would argue reflects a striking ignorance and misreading of Brontë’s text' @heraldscotland.bsky.social

There is a there is a world of cinematic delights coming to this month's Glasgow Film Festival - here's 10 to get you started by @teddyjamieson.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @brianjaffa.bsky.social @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social

Theatre 118, a grassroots Glasgow theatre company, was given just seven days to move out of its premises @neilcooper.bsky.social @brianjaffa.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Review: Matt Chorley asked various Labour people where we were after Sarwar's shenanigans. The answer? Up a creek by the sounds of it, says @teddyjamieson.bsky.social @mattchorley.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Looking forward to doing this event with Anabelle from La Belle Adventure for Will Eisner Week in Paisley Central Library - Friday 6 March 7pm Book here: renfrewshireboxoffice.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... @renfrewshire.gov.uk @willeisner.bsky.social #comics #scotland

The French government is to write to 29-year-olds reminding them that their biological clock is ticking in a bid to boost the birth rate. It’s worrying over-reach that treats women like economic pawns, says @becmcq.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

This is definitely one of fans of the peerless Detectorists @heraldscotland.bsky.social #smallprophets

How the Glasgow Community Sauna has revolutionised wellness with a £10 sauna @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

The Mandelson scandal has revealed a democracy so broken and a politics so toxic that House of Commons isn’t worth saving, argues our Writer at Large @neilmackay.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Biba threw so many exquisitely-shaped fingers into so many design pies that the shops became destinations, and the brand became a lifestyle choice to the extent that it even sold its own label wine, perfume, make-up and Biba-branded baked beans and tinned soup. @heraldscotland.bsky.social

This is a Glasgow West End comedy. There's no misery or poverty, no Rab Cs and Mary Dolls to embarrass the rest of us. Only nice, quirky, middle-class people roamed the patch of Earth on which Dinosaur was set. @heraldscotland.bsky.social

'The noise is fierce, rhythmic, relentless. Powered by Simon Gilbert’s supple, insistent drumming and Richard “New Boy” Oakes’s feral guitar-playing, Suede in 2026 are all rocket fuel and runway roar. It’s exhilarating.' @suedehq.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @teddyjamieson.bsky.social