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From the Blog
Port o’ Leith no more…
What a month it's been! Nothing much has happened except the Port o' Leith pub is no more. Known in it's early years as the Dockers' Bank - they deposited their money there on Friday nights - and the Sailors' Bank - any time would do for them, obviously - it became...
read moreThe single-issue SNP
I went to see Ben MacPherson, my SNP MSP, and a very dispiriting experience it was. Here is my follow-up letter to him, updated since it was sent and slightly altered. There has been no reply. Dear Ben, Thank you for seeing me yesterday afternoon. I’m sorry I was a...
read moreThat’s journos for you.
Well, you win some, you don't win 'em all. I had a very good morning with a journo from der Tagesspiegel (Daily Mirror), Berlin last month. See what he wrote here. My German isn't too great, but I get the gist. Apparently I'm the supreme Trainspotting exegete, and...
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