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'I'm a Charmer As Well As a Rebel ... I Can Schmooze with the Best of Them' Channel 4 News Anchor Jon Snow Tells Douglas Fraser Why He's a Troublemaker, Not a Campaigner, Starting with Those Ties and Iran

'I'M STILL a rebel, " says Jon Snow. "That's why I wear these ties, these socks."The familiar voice of Channel 4 News booms over the Pink Floyd music in his favourite Italian eaterie, as he reaches down to offer a flash of ankle. "Sod 'em, " he exclaims, about no- one in particular. For a man whose words are weapons, it's a succinct but strangely inarticulate philosophy, but a sign that, while pushing 60, he sticks to the defiant 1960s campus spirit that saw him expelled from Liverpool Univer...

Answers On a Postcard Packed with Life Lessons, Chad Mccail's Paintings Look Like They've Been Lifted From a Text Book.

SOMETIMES, being lectured is a bore, but, sometimes, it's quite fun. Artist Chad McCail's paintings are often compared to educational diagrams or instructive literature, which makes you long for an education that matches his aspirations. What is McCail trying to teach us? Well, forgive me Chad if I get it wrong, but as I have followed his work over the last few years, it seems to me to go something like this:

Dance : Knot, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh 4/5

DEBORAH Colker and her 16 dancers have created something truly magical in their latest show and we must hope that Scotland now finds a permanent place on its itinerary. From its opening moments, as two female dancers stalk animalistically around as a third is trussed up by a male colleague, Knot is riveting, approaching the fetishistic aspect in ways much more tasteful - and anatomically accurate - than anything the sex industry could contemplate.

Theatre : Red, Citizens', Glasgow 3/5

IN CIVIL war, everyone's left with blood on their hands. Such physical and emotional fallout is laid provocatively bare in Chris Fittock's debut play for Liverpool-based new writing company, LLT. As its eponymous hero comes home from one battle to square up to another, far more intimate, assault, he moves between two lovers, betraying both like some kind of undercover agent.

Theatre : Old Times, Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh 2/5

LIVING-room bound plays by contemporary writers have taken some stick of late, not least in these pages. Let's not forget, however, that, physically speaking at least, no less a personage than Harold Pinter hardly ever strayed beyond those exact same fourwalls which, in his case, became increasingly rarefied with each reputation- enhancing outing. Dating from 1971, this elliptically self-conscious three-hander is as perfect an evocation of a particularly knowing sense of social unease, as a c...

Music : The Like/Phoenix, King Tut's, Glasgow 3/5

THE pre-band music includes Wreckless Eric's Whole Wide World and Nick Lowe's So It Goes and French band Phoenix momentarily recall Henry Priestman's pre-Christians band The Yachts. We are in Stiff Records heaven. Unfortunately, that's Phoenix at their best. I'm usually up for eclecticism but this is whole different croque monsieur. With their French thank-yous but English lyrics, Thomas Mars and his cohorts know that they have produced a lively, fun pop-rock album in It's Never Been Like Tha...

Just Too Full of Beans, Gringo This Pacy, Efficient American Cop Show Is Too Quick to Cut to the Chase Down Mexico Way Last Night's Tv

WITHOUT A TRACE More 4, 9pm HIDDEN TREASURE HOUSES Five, 7.15pm