According to reports, this year’s firework display to mark the end of the Edinburgh International Festival has been scrapped. A wise move.
One stray spark and, thanks to the litter piled high on every street, our capital city would look like Atlanta in Gone With The Wind. Edinburgh is an absolute mess. I spoke to an American tourist on Monday who assumed she had got on the wrong plane and landed in Glasgow.
The Athens of the North? More like the Kyiv of the East. If the build-up of bacteria gets into everyone’s lungs, we’ll soon hear a new rhetorical question from the locals: “You’ll have had your TB?”
