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Issue 136
Cover Story
Editor at Large
In the country of last things…
In the country of last things…

Smells like Mean Spirit
With our world on a shaky peg, Colin Montgomery feels synaesthesia could be the weapon that restores it to its senses

The King of Carnaby Street
Times change, reckons Kennedy Wilson, and never quite so quickly as in the mid 20th century

MP for Edinburgh North and Leith
Let us talk about hope
We lift our eyes when we want to see further, believing in our common humanity lifts our eyes too, and it also opens them

Saluting our Heritage Fashion
Tweed has a romantic, longstanding history dating back to 18th century Scotland

MSP for Edinburgh North and Leith
The past, future & supporting each other
Let’s collaborate on tackling racism and xenophobia, let’s recommit to making Leith an even more tolerant and pluralist place in years to come

Protempore
It didn’t take long and usually never does…
It didn’t take long and usually never does…

Women Biting Back: Obedience and Defiance. “I try and get justice for women... at least in the pictures. Revenge too.”
Mira Koche reflects on the Paula Rego Exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, which finished as we descended (or ascended) in to lockdown

On the Loose
Strange Days Indeed…
The doctors wore masks too: sinister long pointed ones with herbs inside the beaks to protect them from the smell

Novels in Three Lines
Three sentence exposés of biting beauty, irresistible irony and everyday theatre of the absurd? Félix Fénéon’s your man says Colin Montgomery

Summer Health & Fitness
Leith’s Lockdown Lessons
Things turn full circle, once again I’m instructing people to fill a tote bag with cans of beans to use as a makeshift dumbbell

Walking Solo
Notes on Lockdown
Soon I realised that I need the inspiration of new places, different coastlines, new colours, new sounds, new smells

Something will be returned to us
Sally Fraser finds herself in a power cut with Doctor Who and some Milk Tray

The No Recipe Man
A change is gonna come
Jack Monroe was a near-constant presence on social media, offering specific, practical, free advice

Short Story
Days between stations
He used to think the acrobat had been brave in their love, because every night he threw himself into the air, ignoring that he had no wings

Mrs MacPickle
No withdrawal of bedroom privileges
No withdrawal of bedroom privileges

Sustainability & Satisfaction
The Precious Metals Workshop and This is Ian are two of the leading ethical jewellery based organisations in Scotland

What does the legalisation of cannabis mean?
Dan Collins is here to tell us what the legalisation of cannabis DOESN’T mean
