New Britain Tourism Strategy Will Attract Nine Million Extra Visitors a Year

29.04.2013
Few British industries are as strong as travel and tourism, and few have such growth potential. But achieving this will not be easy. It...
Passenger Asked For His Religion By Airport Security

Passenger Asked For His Religion By Airport Security

22.03.2013
A passenger going through body scanners at Edinburgh airport has complained after being asked what religion he was as he went through security. According...
PHOTOS: Grave Of Medieval Knight Found In Edinburgh Car Park

PHOTOS: Grave Of Medieval Knight Found In Edinburgh Car Park

13.03.2013
The grave of a medieval knight has been found under an old city car park in Edinburgh Old Town. Alongside the nobleman's skeleton, archaeologists...
Beethoven In A Spaceship? It Can Only Be The Edinburgh Festival...

Beethoven In A Spaceship? It Can Only Be The Edinburgh Festival...

13.03.2013
Arts lovers can hear Beethoven in a spaceship and see Leonardo da Vinci take centre stage with modern technology at this year's Edinburgh...

How I Spent £150,000 on Chinese Prostitutes in 18 Months

13.03.2013
People don't want to see the world for what it is; they spend their lives pretending things are otherwise. Prostitution cracks the veneer,...
Welcome to Spraffl, the Anti-Social and Anonymous Social Network

Welcome to Spraffl, the Anti-Social and Anonymous Social Network

12.03.2013
Step forward Spraffl, an anti-social network that claims to take the ego out of posting and broadcasting. It has created a network that...
On Realising Lore

On Realising Lore

12.03.2013
I immediately knew I wanted to make a film of 'Lore' but really had no idea how to go about it. Sitting in Glasgow, the prospect of making...
How Music Festivals Have Changed in the Last Twenty Years

How Music Festivals Have Changed in the Last Twenty Years

18.02.2013
Festivals have changed dramatically in this time - when the first T in the Park took place in 1994 the only other UK festivals were Glastonbury,...
Stopping the Press

Stopping the Press

13.02.2013
The idea of the free press is a product of modern democratic systems, and one that such systems purportedly support and aspire to. According...
Ten Romantic Ideas for Any Day of the Year... Except Valentine's

Ten Romantic Ideas for Any Day of the Year... Except Valentine's

13.02.2013
Apparently every single one of us wakes up on 14 February with nothing on our minds but roses and hearts and kittens and chocolate and...

Grave Concerns: Who Owns a Corpse

6.02.2013
My mind has been much exercised recently after reading about a case which has come to light in Edinburgh. It involved a local council and...

The Trams!

5.02.2013
Permutation upon permutation of exasperated expletives have been thrown at the now infamous Edinburgh Tram project. Each time I return...
Get to Edinburgh, Before Everyone Else Does

Get to Edinburgh, Before Everyone Else Does

26.01.2013
Congrats to Auld Reekie, UK's favourite city 13 years in a row and recently voted one of the top five 'must see' cities in the world. No...
Mourn Not HMV

Mourn Not HMV

22.01.2013
The potential demise of HMV demonstrates the important triumph of more efficient, more effective technologies and business models for distributing...