Priceless

Issue 147
Cover Story
The man who drew everything
The extraordinary life of Tom Curr
Short Story
Red flags

So you would think, you would think, I would be brilliant at noticing red flags, instead of going head first into them
The Power of Pimping

Never averse to a spot of amateur self-analysis, Tom Wheeler explains why things have taken this turn
On the Loose
Where are the modern-day equivalents of Churchill, De Gaulle or Roosevelt, those prepared to plan for the decades to come?

Ukraine, as an independent state will survive, but where will her settled borders lie?
The Leith Glutton
Fun, messy food hits the spot

No point pretending it’s refined food, just filthy good gluttony, which I’m still thinking of a week later
Don’t take me to your leader…

What is a leader? Is anyone in charge? If they are, does it make a blind bit of difference? Colin Montgomery chews it over
Deidre Brock
The Tories last prevailed in 1955

We’re being held back by the UK’s hostile and restrictive immigration system
Muster Station: Leith

The conductor Bruno
Walter, a refugee from the Anschluss in Austria in 1938, reunited with the Vienna Philharmonic at the inaugural festival in 1947
90% of Everything

A Korean Second Officer I had never met before gave me a €50 note and asked me to bring him back Spam
The Pink Flamingos of Baltimore

Ken Wilson on John Waters and Baltimore, once described as the ‘bad taste capital of America’
The shape behind the curtain

Our primary interest here is Windsor Street, which sits in the shadow of the spectral and imposing London Road Gardens
The Bow-Tows & Leith Hospital

I chose Leith Hospital for my first job because of my affection for the place and the deep debt that I and all Newhaveners owed it