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‘WORKING-CLASS ANGER COMES IN WAVES. THE ANGER IS STILL THERE’

Crime, the new police drama written by the great chronicler of contemporary Scottishness, Irvine Welsh, opens with a typically biting monologue. Instead of “choosing” life, DI Ray Lennox focuses on ignorance and it being the root of all evil. He concludes: “There’s the saying the road to hell is paved with good intentions. No. In my mind, the road to hell is paved with ignorance.”

Lennox is played by Dougray Scott, who certainly doesn’t want to be ignorant when it comes to his characters.

“I like to find out as much as

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