by tim_bell | Aug 30, 2019 | Latest News
Thanks to everyone – 125 folk – who came on the tour this month. I hope you all enjoyed it; for me it was a pleasure to meet such a wide variety of people with their different interests in the Trainspotting story. Some were into the literature, others the...
by tim_bell | Jul 31, 2019 | Latest News
Last week it was announced that the annual per capita death-rate in Scotland related to illicit drugs went through the 1,000 mark, giving Scotland the unenviable top position in not just the UK, not just the EU, but almost everywhere in what is called “the...
by tim_bell | Jun 28, 2019 | Latest News
After a busy May and June, what with the Leith Festival and a couple of book events, I have only a few tours in July before the August Fringe programme: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on#fq=venue_name%3A%22Custom%20House%22&q=*%3A* The two June events could...
by tim_bell | May 18, 2019 | Latest News
Cultural exchanges are good. Full stop. Unambiguous statement. Here is a piece I submitted to The Herald for its Agenda column, which they couldn’t use because the space is already taken: On my wall hangs a photograph of me in Gaza with two Palestinian boys my...
by tim_bell | Apr 29, 2019 | Latest News
Well, there’s another SNP conference away, at the weekend there, another wasted opportunity for our “national” party to do a bit of thinking in public about what’s best for Scotland. Instead, we had this narrative that is so disingenuous that it’s dangerous. It’s the...
