by tim_bell | Aug 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
See my letter in The Herald or read it here. The “War on Drugs” isn’t a war, it’s big business. Few politicians have the courage to acknowledge this, and none of them is in Scotland. I know little of Afghanistan other than general knowledge and...
by tim_bell | Aug 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Just too late to join the row about the record-breaking illegal drug deaths in Scotland, here’s a letter I didn’t send to the press. Recent correspondence is quite right to point out that the cause of the scale of the Scottish drug-related deaths is...
by tim_bell | Jun 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last week I sent this image of weeds the whole length of the gutter of our street, dense and up to almost 2 feet high, to my MSP and councillors. I asked them for a well-informed opinion on how it has got to this stage. Ben MacPherson MSP (SNP) said it was a Council...
by tim_bell | May 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m very proud to be asked by the Council to make a presentation of 100 years of Leith history. ME! I’ve only been here forty years. Researching it, I was struck again by how much was being lost to the community of Leith in the run-up to the end of the...
by tim_bell | Apr 28, 2021 | Latest News
Dear Ben, I was pleased to see you and the other candidates at the Leith Churches Together hustings last evening. Talking it over with church friends – not party friends – this morning, there is some consensus about the most disgraceful thing said: when you said that...
by tim_bell | Mar 30, 2021 | Latest News
Not content with reaping the ill-gotten gains of the iniquitous first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting arrangements for Westminster (if they were iniquitous when Labour was the beneficiary, they are still iniquitous), Alex Salmond is now gaming the voting arrangements for...
by tim_bell | Mar 9, 2021 | Latest News
I don’t think I’m complacent, but I do think there’s almost no danger of IndyRef2 and Scottish separation from rUK for the forseeable. The SNP may have a majority at Holyrood after May, but there are big doubts about that and at any rate it is...
by tim_bell | Feb 22, 2021 | Latest News
Date: 23 February, 1996. Scene: Glasgow Filmhouse. Action: premiere of Trainspotting. Effects: the birth of a cultural and box office fireball. Reactions were mixed: Trainspotting has a shallow, joyless ring… it embraces a new soulless addiction to...
by tim_bell | Jan 27, 2021 | Latest News
Here’s a letter I sent to The Scotsman but it wasn’t published. There’s a bit of a rush to set out the pitch for the Holyrood elections.There is an academic piece saying that the EU is under no obligation to accept into membership any...
by tim_bell | Jan 6, 2021 | Latest News
Well, it’s not every day you get a letter published in The Guardian The very idea that a win on a day, like a cup final or a medieval battle at Bannockburn, resolves complex issues needs to be full-on refuted. Secondly, the very idea that creating more borders...
