Festival director Dawn Taylor is full of hope for the future despite losing international acts from the programme this year, writes Joyce McMillan Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

I manipulate people for a living. I mean that quite literally. As a divorce lawyer, my job is, in essence, to manipulate the emotional state of everybody in the room. I manipulate the judge to feel ...

Manipulation is not all negative. If it’s done harmlessly to make the other person happier or receptive and if it helps you diffuse a difficult situation, then perhaps, it’s not bad. To know how we ...