Taking full advantage of the month of the blue moon in July, I didn't write a blog. Plenty of stuff happening, as ever, but not blogworthy stuff. Had a cracking tour with a stag party. I normally say the tour doesn't got well on stag do's. You know, there's not...

Thanks to the thirty-odd Trainspotters who turned up to the Leith Festival programme of tours last week. They were all enjoyable, with good crack going between interested and well-informed people. Some of them were hard-core fans of either Welsh, or Trainspotting,...

Well, whoever would have thought it? A near wipe-out of Labour's Scottish stronghold. Looking back, we can see the seeds were sown a long time ago. Labour lost contact with the people, we lost the vision thing, and we lost the plot. Now what's needed is a...