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Standup in a swimming pool, naked tractor driving, heart attacks, heckles, walkouts, rain and an onstage marriage proposal – as the fringe turns 75, this year’s performers on the memories that make the festival unique

With a fresh start following two years of pandemic restrictions, what should the Edinburgh festivals be doing better? We asked some festival performers for their thoughts

Nica Burns, driving force of the festival’s comedy prize, talks about the winners and losers in 40 years of the hugely influential event

Here's a small fraction of some of the comedy coming up at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

What impulse unites a collector of ceramic cats with someone who gathers broken records or sweet wrappers?

It’s the decade that gave us Britpop and Cool Britannia, but what can the 1990s tell us about who we are now? Over the first two weeks

At the European Social Forum on 15–17 October, AWL members leafleted, sold papers, ran literature stalls, and sought out people interested in political discussion. Where we could, we took the floor in sessions to put our point of view. That wasn’t always possible: many of the sessions, crowded and with large platforms, took only a small proportion of those wanting to speak from the floor.

Tom Taylor, comedian tour dates

I’m no fan of Jimmy Carr, but the demands to cancel him by people like Sajid Javid are beyond the pale

An awkward encounter led me into a moral maze, with a holy trinity fighting over my Scotch dosh