What continues to surprise me is the number of times we’re told that Boris Johnson’s greatest achievement was making Brexit happen. The truth is that many millions of us continue…
So, it’s that time of year again, just a few days until the commencement of the maelstrom of madness that is the Edinburgh Festival. Although I am aware there will…
The importance of cultural ethos was highlighted earlier this year by partygate. But cultural ethos varies in less prominent situations: different committees of the same local authority, similar wards in…
Since the bumptious boys at RBS crashed the world economy, one has been forced to view banks with a certain reserve. In our case, that reserve has developed into a…
I was on the train this weekend visiting the ‘Second City of The Empire’, a title that was at one time given to Scotland’s largest conurbation. That is at a…
I have just glanced at today’s newspaper front pages: ‘£70k power bill shock for local store’; ‘Scots firms on the brink amid soaring energy costs’; ‘Council could open city buildings…
I am confused. While my ongoing saga with banks has to go on hold ‘pending inquiries’, the rest of the outside world has become a confection of unanswerable questions. As an avid…
I decided on Sunday to take a wee walk around town to drink in the joyful atmosphere marking the last weekend of the city’s world-acclaimed late summer events. This is…
It has been a slow week for adventures, nothing untoward has happened to me Daisy, Karen or Mark: the entities that inhabit our place of residence. I have noticed that…
The older one gets, memory starts to play tricks: you forget something â a name, a place, an event â and then minutes, hours, days later, the brain’s no longer…