Welcome to Leith Walks, home of the original Trainspotting Tours and the book Choose Life. Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location by Tim Bell, published by Luath Press.
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From the Blog
Who’s quoting who?
Tory Chancellor George Osborne told his party conference a week ago to ‘Choose jobs; choose enterprise; choose security; choose prosperity; choose investment; choose fairness; choose freedom; choose David Cameron; choose the Conservatives; choose the future.’ Good...
read moreHistory and fiction – a potent mix
A few days before the referendum I took an Austrian journo who was in town looking for a fresh angle. He asked me how the Trainspotting characters would vote. Here’s his piece, translated. He didn’t get everything right, but that’s journos for you. SICK BOY VOTES YES...
read morePleased, but neither complacent nor triumphalist
Well, that was a week! Some say that fear and negativity won the Indy Ref. That’s not why I voted NO. How about inverting that: ‘a reckless, uncosted, unprepared-for project was rejected.’ Is it fearful or negative to come to a calculated judgement along those lines?...
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