Urban policy and practice

I got an email from my mum this morning. When I was a wee boy I was always taken to the polling station by one of my parents to be with them...

This is the second of my posts for the Greener Leith blog , where I ponder my role as a gentrifier...   Gentrification is a very ominou...

This post was written for the blog of a local community organisation in my neighbourhood Greener Leith . They very kindly describe me as...

As a child of the 1980s from The North a couple of children’s TV programmes captured my fascination because they included regional accents. ...

Back in August a mattress had been laid by the bin store outside where I live for weeks. Given that we live on the boundary of one of the fi...

I’m on the management committee of a community based housing association. We had a meeting on Wednesday at which was agreed the assoc...

I’m in an odd mood today. I woke up and got out of the wrong side of bed and was in a horrendous mood, but my nice followers on Twitter have...