Issue 719

June 14 - 20, 2010

Gimme shelter
How 10 years of refugee dispersal across Glasgow has transformed parts of the city and changed people’s lives forever

Lennon’s pain
Former Doctor Who Christopher Ecclestone on playing a Beatle icon in a new BBC drama, how his parents gave him the start Lennon craved, and why we’re about to enter a golden age of TV in Britain

Don’t be happy, worry
For philosopher Roger Scruton, there are times when it is good to take a pessimistic view…

Life after pi
Yann Martel’s Booker Prize  winner Life Of Pi sold seven million copies. Can he repeat  the success with his controversial new novel  about the Holocaust?