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 | Jul 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
This is a reminder – or possibly your first notice – that we would like your entry (or entries) for the Leith Anthology by the end of July. Whether you’ve nearly finished it, with just the final tweaks to get right, or you’ve been putting ideas to steep in your fine...
by tim_bell | Nov 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
On the first day of my Fringe tours in August 2018 we were joined by a Finnish journalist: here’s the write-up....
