The Leither

It’s traditional at this time of year for our esteemed editor (are you sure? Ed) to ask me to provide you all with a little bit of crystal ball-gazing and set out what might be ahead of us afte...

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Wuff! Dis be pug Coco from da street of Balfour. Deres lotsa stinky bins and sometimes I find bitsa Storries pies on da floor too.” “My hooman ask me to write dis story cos I knows many of yo...

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Sandy Campbell On the Loose A story based on newspaper reports from the time At lunchtime on Monday 7th of December 1953 a young couple strolled arm-in-arm into Huntly House Museum on the Canonga...

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Sally Fraser ponders the ever evolving shape shifting that goes towards making a life  The sky looked like the sand this morning. You know, the swirly, patterned bits of sand on the edge of the ...

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Christmas telly is now dog shit rolled in tinsel. Time for a yuletide revolution, says Colin Montgomery If they could bottle nostalgia, the poppy fields would wither and die. I mean, who would...

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Tom Wheeler  When I was little, I was fascinated by physics – though admittedly I didn’t know it at the time, or for quite a while after. Specifically, what intrigued me was how things worke...

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There’s nowhere quite like London’s Soho. But its disreputable status is under threat discovers Kennedy Wilson Soho, the square mile of central London that was once a byword for bohemian over...

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I mind once me and Charlie, years ago now, skipped college and got the bus into town. It was before St Andrews Square had been opened up as a place everyone could enjoy. It had been a locked gard...

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Vicky Allan tells us about the Edinburgh and Portobello Wild Ones and others featured in her new book with Anna Deacon ‘If you’re having a moment when you’ve lost your faith in humanity,”...

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Deidre Brock, MP for Edinburgh North and Leith There’s a sense of wonder at Christmas, magic in the air, that tingle of excitement, children looking forward to the day, adults telling innocent ...

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and we know they are against this attempt of the municipal maw of Edinburgh to eat up Leith.” Mr C Palmer, House of Commons 15th July 1920, Hansard The Edinburgh Boundaries Extension and Tramwa...

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Ben Macpherson MSP for Edinburgh North and Leith There’s an old adage about not talking about religion or politics if you want a party to go well, whether that’s on a work Christmas night out...

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Column #2 for The Leither by Kevin Williamson What is Poetry? It’s such a straightforward question you’d think anyone who spends the best part of a lifetime reading, writing or thinking about...

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Carolyn McKerracher They keep promising snow. Snow by the weekend. Snow for Christmas. Worst snow ever.  Now, I’m not praying for another Beast from the East, a three hour walk home from work,...

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Mrs MacPickle Solves All Your Problems! Dear Mrs MacPickle, At risk of sounding like Leith’s answer to Ebenezer Scrooge, I really can’t be bothered with Christmas this year. I don’t want to...

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The inimitable Jarvis Cocker can always be relied on to throw out a bold challenge. Leith Theatre rose to it magnificently during nine magical nights in August, when star power came to the people...

http://www.leithermagazine.com/2019/12/02/are-you-prepared-to-take-leith-of-your-senses-2.html