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From the Blog
Bahnhof Zoo and Muirhouse: how would you know the difference?
There is always an interest in Trainspotting, often taking the form of a look at how Leith has changed - or not changed - since the 1980s days of the heroin epidemic. Recently a French journo and his photographer were in town. See the images here. It's good to see how...
read moreMay Day 2016: Zeit fur mehr Solidaritat*.
There was me, just 24 hours ago, walking through the Tiergarten in Berlin and coming towards the Brandenburg Gate. Cruelly, The Wall ran just to the west of the Gate, separating it from the Reichstag a few hundred yards away. Now the line of the despised Wall is...
read moreJudge a book by its cover.
I was at my Stranger Than Fiction writers' group the other evening, in the pub, of course. Some people say that non-fiction writers must be boring, but I don't think that's true at all. I just wouldn't go if it was true. Anyway, this month we had a chap who designs...
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