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Arbroath doesn’t need another edge
Bernard de Linton would surely shake his head at the idea that Arbroath’s ambition now ends at the edge of town, where the dual carriageway begins. Or maybe he’d be out there himself…
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Why I Built a Running Club
I thought I was building the Tesco of running clubs: structured, reliable, open to all. My rival? Disappointingly not even Asda — just a trestle table in our car park selling cheap T-shirts…
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Pedalling Resentment
Suggesting cyclists don’t care about suffering crosses a line into a style of toxic social-media outrage. And it shapes how people treat neighbours, colleagues, strangers getting home from work — making it harder…
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The Murray Myth
Murray’s story was never a national triumph. It was a personal and class triumph. And until we admit that, we’ll keep mistaking privilege for possibility.
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The Marathon Myth
In 490 BC, Greek messenger Pheidippides ran from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens, gasped "We have won!" (Νενικήκαμεν!) — and promptly died. Runners looked at that and thought, “Let’s do it.”
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This Is More Than Just a Cycle Path
A £14 million investment in a new network for walking, wheeling, and cycling in Arbroath — removing a dual carriageway that once split the town — doesn’t look like a vanity project to…
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Why I Won’t Wear a Kilt: A Modern Take on Scottish Tradition
So how far does this tartan-wrapped “tradition” really go back? After all, St Andrew wasn’t the kilted disciple. I doubt if anyone in Edinburgh or Dundee wore one until long after Walter Scott…
