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Editor at Large

Steamships & Nautical Tales

You feel the pull of the sea, the salt flecked spray, as much through the stories of the ships as the human histories

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The Stuff of Legend

Edinburgh is often described as a network of villages, for Gordon Munro, Newhaven tops them all

On the Loose

A very Edinburgh riot

It’s perplexing, if not downright unbelievable, to hear how anti-Catholic Protestantism burst violently onto the streets of Edinburgh

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“So why do people support a particular football team?”

At a frozen, fogbound, Cappielow, charmless stewards confiscated a flask of soup we’d taken to keep the kids warm

The Leith Glutton

The New Kid on the Block

A bundle of delicious contradictions: moist and firm, soft and crunchy, sweet and salty, all very grown up

Protempore

A soundbite for the Daily Mail which shows a level of ignorance that is staggering

Boris Johnson’s intellectual contribution to the debate is putting antisocial offenders in ‘fluorescent chain gangs’

Short Story

Bessie & the Space Shuttle

She picked up a scarlet red lipstick called Lovers Kiss – the colour a shock of youth against her hand

Deidre Brock

The hostile environment policy

Illustrator Ehsan Abdollahi was refused a visa in 2017, a public campaign made the government rethink their stance

Summer Health & Fitness

Be Here Now

It’s enough to make me switch off my phone for 100 hours; hit factory reset, recalibrate, live in real time

Mrs MacPickle

The awkward flappy dance

I am no longer really sociable enough for level one or zero, never mind no restrictions.

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Googling ‘5 days without alcohol’

Googling ‘5 days without alcohol’

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Bukowski & the Holy Trinity

After revisiting infamous laureate of low-life Charles Bukowski’s work, Colin Montgomery is convinced his epitaph was spot-on

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“At least you were able to be there at the end…”

Realising the need for distraction, I put on some music: National Shite Day by Half Man Half Biscuit seems to fit the bill

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All about all about Eve

Seventy years after receiving an Oscar, a film from the golden age of Hollywood is being reissued in Blu-ray; Kennedy Wilson says it’s not to be missed

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What the censor saw!

Like Edinburgh buses, the three films arrived back to back. Each one of them helmed by a notorious controversialist