by tim_bell | May 28, 2015 | Latest News
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...
by tim_bell | Apr 13, 2015 | Latest News
Listening to Irvine Welsh on BBC Radio 4 this morning, my first thought was that he regards the idea of Scottish ‘independence’ as some sort of literary construct or theatrical Brigadoon. Meanwhile, here in Scotland, we have to pay the bills, and the...
by tim_bell | Mar 31, 2015 | Latest News
My, there’s the clocks forward already! Wonderful, isn’t it, how the year’s markers keep coming. And what a terrific culture we have in Edinburgh and Scotland for new writing. This month I went to a seminar in Glasgow run by the Scottish Book Trust...
by tim_bell | Feb 28, 2015 | Latest News
Is that the end of February already? My, how the winter weeks have flown by. Not that I have been cosy indoors, mind, oh no. I boldly said to a friend at Christmas ‘Oh yes, I have a bike.’ You know what she said? ‘I’ve known you for five years...
by tim_bell | Dec 31, 2014 | Latest News
Sorry to be late here. Please go to The Walks page for the turn-up-and-go tours. In Edinburgh High Street they call out for the Underground Tours – I sometimes make the (somewhat weak) rejoinder that the real underground tours are here in Leith. They don’t...
