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“Dangerous artists need safe spaces too,” declared Darren McGarvey, the Orwell Prize-winning writer and rapper, in praise of his hosts from Edinburgh’s iconoclastic music and spoken word night Neu! Reekie (****), Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson. “These guys were for ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ before these were corporate media buzzwords,” he continued, a commanding presence even without the planned musical accompaniment of his wife, Becci Wallace.