Urban policy and practice

Ferguslie Park is. And even that statement is not right. No news outlet I’ve seen so far could be bothered to go to Ferguslie Park and speak...

Back in 1999 and devolution to the Scottish Parliament and government, one of the most impressive range of powers that wasn’t reserved to We...

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...