Between 1990 and 1994 I wrote a weekly column for the Edinburgh Evening News, covering a wide range of topics. Here, copies of articles as I filed them are available to download as Word documents. Just click on the headlines.
27 March 1990: Shopping to save the planet
03 April 1990: Working with the Russians
09 April 1990: Refusing to pay the poll tax
17 April 1990: Suffocating the Trossachs
20 April 1990: Saving the environment
24 April 1990: The stink from Lothian Chemical Company
01 May 1990: Poisoning our children with lead
08 May 1990: Time to stand and stare
14 May 1990: Poisoning your children with radiation
22 May 1990: David Murray's threat to the Green Belt
29 May 1990: Thatcher and global warming
05 June 1990: Gummer and that beefburger
11 June 1990: Paintballing a woodland
19 June 1990: Nuclear waste for ever
25 June 1990: Something to fear from electricity
02 July 1990: Tow away double-parked cars
09 July 1990: Returning roads to grass
16 July 1990: Giardia churning the stomach
24 July 1990: The birth of SNH
31 July 1990: Saving Edinburgh's buses
07 August 1990: Car-free at the Festival
14 August 1990: A salmon blood bath
21 August 1990: Rascals together at Loch Laggan
28 August 1990: Luddites loving technology
04 September 1990: Fighting Fisons to save peat
11 September 1990: Wasting time criminalising cannabis
18 September 1990: Preserving the thrill of the wild
25 September 1990: The pity war distilled
02 October 1990: An insult to the environment
09 October 1990: Celebrating the Forth rail bridge
16 October 1990: Drowning in our waste
23 October 1990: Putting animals in prison
30 October 1990: Rotting away in Rosyth
06 November 1990: Looking after dolphins
13 November 1990: In praise of Tam Dalyell
20 November 1990: Tropical rainforests under threat
27 November 1990: Thatcher becomes history
04 December 1990: We need to recycle more
11 December 1990: Helping the homeless
18 December 1990: Tearing up golf greens
08 January 1991: From a distance, you look like my friend
15 January 1991: The risks of nuclear war
23 January 1991: What's going wrong with our trains?
30 January 1991: The first casualty of war
06 February 1991: Disgracing the dead
13 February 1991: Living in the dark ages
20 February 1991: Heavy metals in scallops
27 February 1991: Bang, bang, you're banned
06 March 1991: Broken bodies on the road to Basra
13 March 1991: Red Nose Day is sickening
20 March 1991: Greening our cities to save lives
27 March 1991: Paying the poll tax two years late
10 April 1991: The hopelessness of banks
03 April 1991: The news that Torness never reports
17 April 1991: The greenest car is no car
24 April 1991: Mislaying radioactivity
01 May 1991: Don't close the Citizens' Rights Office
08 May 1991: Magnusson's new green quango
15 May 1991: The madness of banning bikes on trains
22 May 1991: Joking with the Scottish Office
29 May 1991: In support of banning smoking on buses
05 June 1991: Keeping power supply public
12 June 1991: Oscar Romero comes to Edinburgh
19 June 1991: Attempting to neuter nature conservation
26 June 1991: Malcolm Rifkind's woodland nightmare
03 July 1991: The admirable passion of Frances McKie
10 July 1991: The creeping privatisation of Leith Hospital
17 July 1991: Please change our trains
24 July 1991: The guilt of changing nappies
31 July 1991: The obscenity of friendly fire
07 August 1991: Nothing wrong with whatever turns you on
14 August 1991: Disappearing fish in the sea
21 August 1991: Saving the heart of the Cairngorms
28 August 1991: The 150,000 who died in the Gulf War
04 September 1991: Celebrating the joy of humanity
11 September 1991: The Sick Kids does not need charity