Priceless

Issue 141
Cover Story
Leith Festival volunteers
create a legacy for Leithers
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
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
“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.
Bukowski & the Holy Trinity

After revisiting infamous laureate of low-life Charles Bukowski’s work, Colin Montgomery is convinced his epitaph was spot-on
“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
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
What the censor saw!

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