Whenever Leith Festival & Gala day comes along my thoughts always turn to Mary Moriarty; more so now as her house is on the market. The beginning of some kind of an ending

Adventurer Tom Wheeler gives us a partly accurate guide to the West Highland line

Christian Weir is a writer keen to take you someplace sometimes

You don’t have to be a Catholic, or even a Christian, to hail the election of Pope Leo XIV as welcome good news

Dr George Venters: MBChB, DipAnGen, PhD, FFPHM and co-founder of Newhaven Heritage on a vital 19th Century medical discovery

Like a lot of people, I’m a big fan of gangster films. Well, let me qualify that a bit. I mean the classics…

Athens’ streets groan with oranges, unexpected in a cacophonous car dominated metropolis writes Charlie Ellis

This troubles me more than it ought to but is the thing that troubles me more that it looks wrong writes Rodger Evans

What is required of an American President in these astonishing times? Asks Lawrence Lettice

It’s hard to believe I’ve had the honour and responsibility of serving Leith as your constituency MSP for 9 years

Leith is buzzing, that’s part of the attraction, lots of people living close together

We’re all guilty of bad choices. But, perhaps some are more guilty than others, reckons Colin Montgomery

An unfamiliar experience
has unfolded: everyone seems to agree with me

Our restaurant reviewer sallies forth in search of the pleasures of the table with a bold knife and fork