Editing Irvine Welsh (section)

==Themes==
As well as [[recreational drug use]], Welsh's [[fiction]] and [[non-fiction]] is dominated by the question of [[working class]] and Scottish identity in the period spanning the 1960s to the present day. Within this, he explores the rise and fall of the council housing scheme, denial of opportunity, low-paid work, [[unemployment]], [[social assistance]], [[sectarianism]], [[football (soccer)|football]], [[hooliganism]], sex, suppressed [[homosexuality]], dance clubs, [[freemasonry]], [[Irish republicanism]], [[sodomy]], class divisions, [[emigration]] and, perhaps most of all, the humour, [[prejudice]]s and axioms of the Scots.

[[Sam Leith]], writing in the ''[[Financial Times]]'', argues that: "Welsh's concerns are with sin and salvation, with the exercise of free will and with the individual soul. He's much more interested in [[teleology]] than sociology."<ref>{{cite web|title=Life choice|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9eb99e7a-84e5-11e1-a3c5-00144feab49a.html#axzz1sQx0Wdck|work=The Financial Times|publisher=The Financial Times Limited|access-date=29 July 2012|author=Sam Leith|date=14 April 2012|archive-date=18 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718202209/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9eb99e7a-84e5-11e1-a3c5-00144feab49a.html#axzz1sQx0Wdck|url-status=live}}</ref>