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Random notes from Edinburgh.

Monday, 27 May 2024

If there is no respect, there will be pain

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  In spring 1944, Ernest Levy was jailed in Budapest. His offence was minor and he believed he would be at liberty within a few days. Instea...
Saturday, 9 January 2021

Jenni Fagan's Edinburgh gothic

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By the end of the Luckenbooth, Jenni Fagan’s wildly gothic new novel, readers will need little convincing of the truth of its inscription: E...
Thursday, 14 May 2020

Don't insult me with 'unionist'

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Interesting times, uncomfortable times.  That’s how the writer Denise MIna recalls the Scottish independence referendum. She voted No, we...
Tuesday, 3 October 2017

Barcelona notebook: the Catalan referendum

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I spent four days in Barcelona during the Catalan referedum.  Not every thing I wrote was published in the paper, or even submitted for pub...
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I freelanced for a year, before accepting a contract with The Times in 2008. Previously I was Scottish features editor of the Sunday Times for about three and half years and prior to that I worked for five years for the Scotsman newspaper, where I wrote news, features, sport, leaders, opinion and diary pieces. In a previous life I worked as a writer and researcher in a variety of fields including commerical video and museum design. I copy-edited the displays for the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh and researched and wrote the Arsenal FC museum at Highbury stadium in London. I am a prize-winning history graduate of Edinburgh University.
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