150th issue, huh! How’d that happen? 

For example, in 2017 one in nine children were reported with mental health problems, by 2021 it was one in six

The heraldic arms of Mary of Guise, formerly displayed in Water Street and St Anthony’s Port, now in South Leith Parish Church

De Gaulle’s speech from the balcony of Québec’s provincial parliament got him chucked out of the country by Pierre Trudeau

Joanna and Alexandra from Athens and Crete have birthed one of the finest new additions to Leith’s culinary landscape

Politics matter, It is the way in which we organise our society says Tim Bell…

…where people are actively talking about the living room you had as a teenager.”

It’s a big birthday for this venerable organ, so Colin Montgomery marks the moment by getting in his flying car and visiting Leith 150 years on…

For many years Newhaven fishermen suffered setbacks when trying for a safe anchorage from winter storms, writes Dougie Ratcliffe

What did you do during Covid? Gordon Munro and his pals (hello Willy Barr!) created their own wee bubble

Kennedy Wilson on the inner workings of Hollywood and the early scratchy shellac of the first 78 discs

Tom Wheeler suggests Lachlan Rose (he of the Lime Cordial) ‘stole the Navy’s booze’

Tracy Griffen brings in the new year as a columnist without portfolio, the words ‘world’ and ‘oyster’ spring to mind

Charlie Ellis gives us a year in the life of the old Royal Edinburgh High School and a possible future