As the chaos surrounding ticket mix-ups roared on unabated and reports claimed the Fringe was dead, Tom Shields jumped on a Waverley-bound train at Glasgow Queen Street in search of the true spirit of the
Edinburgh festival
Most tourists to the
Caribbean rarely venture outside the safety of their resorts to discover life beyond the fences, a world of poverty and violence. Sometimes, as happened last week in Antigua, that outside world breaks in with tragic results.
Kei Miller, a Jamaican poet who teaches writing at Glasgow University, looks at what has gone wrong in Caribbean societies
