Tag Archives: Edinburgh
Nope, still an atheist
Last night Edinburgh held the annual fertility and beginning-of-summer ritual, Edinburgh’s Beltane Fire festival. Matthew Richardson: “The performance has two main characters – the May Queen who represents the mother earth, and the Green Man who represents nature and the … Continue reading
Filed under Religion, Scottish Culture
SPUC off!
On 28th April 1968, the 1967 Abortion Act became law in England, Scotland, and Wales. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists reminds its members: For the twelve years before the Act, abortion was the leading cause of maternal mortality … Continue reading
Filed under Human Rights, Scottish Culture, Women
Hustings for an equal council
Tomorrow (18th April) is your very last day to get registered to vote in the council elections on 3rd May. You’ve got till 5pm. There were two hustings tomorrow. But the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce “Business Hustings” with all the … Continue reading
Filed under Elections
Waverley Station is an access fail
This is what it’s like to move around Waverley Station, right now, in a wheelchair. On a Saturday in January last year, I slipped on a patch of ice masked by snow. I felt my foot twisting inside my boot … Continue reading
Filed under Disability, Public Transport, Travel, Women
An equal council for Edinburgh
On Thursday 3rd May, Edinburgh goes to the polls to elect a new council for the first time since 2007. In 2007 we had the guddle of the ballots, and in the five years since the last set of councillors … Continue reading
Vision for Leith Walk
Leith Walk is the longest street in Edinburgh and the one with the most character. It’s one of the most multicultural areas in Edinburgh. There are about eight supermarkets on Leith Walk and a few chain shops and franchises, and … Continue reading
Filed under Scottish Politics, Sustainable Politics, Elections, Supermarkets
Edinburgh: Ban Chuggers
No one likes chuggers. Everyone has a preferred tactic of dealing with them. (Mine, if I can’t dodge them completely, is to say flatly and at once “I never give out my bank details on the street” and walk on. … Continue reading
Filed under Charities
Tapas eaten by landlord
Just round the corner from Eildon Street, on Inverleith Place, there was a little general grocers. My late great-aunt lived on Eildon Street; she couldn’t walk as far as the big Tescos (and didn’t like it much anyway) or the … Continue reading
Filed under Restaurants
North Fort Street. 5.45pm. Police.
This evening about 5:45, on North Fort Street (about 200 meters from Ferry Road) I saw three police cars. Two on the corner by Fort House, one on the facing corner by Lapicide Place. And at least five police. They … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Education, Supermarkets
