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From the Blog
“Double inverted commas” or ‘single ones’, darling?
It's been an interesting month. Oh yes. Maybe you can't imagine how much fun it has been going through every page of my copy, looking for the absolutely correct way to give a page reference. It has to be exactly this: (p.67) Indentation of paragraphs, too. Not...
read moreShut up or speak up – the SNP doesn’t get it right
The SNP doesn't shut up when we don't need to hear from them ("SNP warns disastrous 'no deal' on Brexit must be ruled out" screams today's Herald headline: REALLY? the rest of us yawn) but we don't hear anything from them when they have something to explain. Taken to...
read moreLeith Theatre and the cult of Trainspotting
A jolly good time was had by all as Irvine Welsh and Ewen Bremner came to Leith Theatre to supplement a showing of Trainspotting last week. Read all about it in the Edinburgh Evening News. £20 a pop, no shy they c***s, till you realise it was a fundraiser for the...
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