An Edinburgh Office Telephone Conversation.
“Good afternoon. Shortbread factory. Steve speaking.” A man’s voice. “Hello… er… is that the shortbread factory?” “Indeed it is. How …
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The Barriers: A Fable of Globalisation.
Dawn brought a fretful little breeze and Erastus Balloo lumbering along in his sepia hatchback, a car so undistinguished that …
My First Robot.
The ILIFE V5s is about the size of a cherry pie and it is twice as sweet. You put it …
Brexit Disaster: The Reality On The Ground.
You will know that my agency often sends me to work in one of Edinburgh’s ampler supermarkets. You might also …
The Big Black Man.
The big black man stood in the entrance to the bank’s cafeteria. He was emblazoned on a tall, free-standing plastic …
Empathy.
Erastus Balloo beat the traffic to be on the campus and in his office before eight o’clock. He opened the …
The Paradox of a Revolutionary Cup of Coffee
My employment agency sometimes sends me to a pub in the south of Edinburgh which is called The Buns. It …
Book Reviews: The Precariat and Rise of the Robots.
A thought experiment to warm up with. Imagine that Google was an entirely corporeal phenomenon, like the National Library of …
The End of the Fringe: Teatro Delusio.
This year, both God and the Devil, and all of the Fringe reviewers in between, have stressed the phenomenal skill …
Tori’s Story (A Dean Village Horror).
As with Janet’s tale, a bare transcript of Tori’s story would consist chiefly of umming and erring, dithering and backtracking. …
Less Than Zero: A Labour Party Conspiracy?
Whilst I am completely nonplussed by a lot of what passes for politics in modern Britain, the one subject on …
All Work and No Play.
The hard-working family had moved into number 34 at the beginning of April. Reluctantly, and with quite ineffectual feelings of …
Tychy@ the Fringe: On Hold.
Scratchworks Theatre Collective’s “On Hold” is written by Isabel Tennyson and it is currently established at the Spaces on North …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Contractions.
Yes, this is what Fringe theatre should be about. Imani Robinson and Thea Hope have got hold of a saucy …
Radio Review: Analysis, Labour’s New New Jerusalem.
It may seem a suspicious coincidence that politicians in the middle of a recession have suddenly discovered that welfare is …
