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arty-crafty public-library worker ▪ ab&zu auf de/ö ▪ often on my bike ▪ she/her ▪ queer ▪︎ neurospicy ▪ own views ▪ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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dr nicky imrie @njimrie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The AIDS Quilts Memorial exhibition is open until Sunday 4 October Glasgow Tramway. Check out @rosswhytemusic.bsky.social contribution of oral histories gathered @ourstoryscotland.bsky.social combined with his own music. ⤵️
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Q Manivannan MSP @qmanivannan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#ECAMatters I stand against the cuts to Textiles, Performance Costume, and Jewellery and Silversmithing at the Edinburgh College of Art, and join over 9000 petitioners demanding their reinstatement. Add your signature to the list, and write to your MSPs. www.change.org/p/save-the-c...
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Sign the Petition
Save the Craft and Design Courses at Edinburgh College of Art
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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 23/08/2026
This looks like a European holiday destination It’s actually the Cowgate without cars Edinburgh needs more vision in its planning @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social
The inside of a sunlit high stone arch that forms a bridge over a historic street. The street is backlit with sunshine and  100s of people walk along it, as there are no cars. A family pushes a buggy with child looking and pointing at the world in wonder
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 14/08/2026
CN: Death, suicide. Absolutely horrified that autistic professor Jason Arday—who was relentlessly smeared by ableist bullies—was found dead today. Our sincere condolences to his family and loved ones, and shame upon The Telegraph & other outlets who hounded him. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Jason Arday, professor at centre of Cambridge plagiarism row, found dead
Academic was pronounced dead at his home in south London after police called to address after 3pm on Friday
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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Professor Jason Arday has been found dead. I have no words... 🕯️
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
Jason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, officials said.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 17/06/2026
Much of debate on the social media ban overlooks what that could mean for privacy, censorship and LGBTQIA+ communities.
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Rise of social media bans is a blunt force that will harm LGBTQIA+ children, especially in rural areas
If we are serious about protecting young people, we need to approach social media policy with that nuance in mind.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Today marks nine years since the Grenfell Tower fire. Nine years without justice. 72 people lost their lives in a tragedy that was entirely preventable. And yet not one person has faced criminal accountability. Not one prosecution. Not one conviction. Not one person behind bars.
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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Today is 9 years since Grenfell. Despite clear evidence (both before, during and since the disaster) of premeditated crimes, criminal negligence, and misconduct in public office, survivors and bereaved family are still waiting for justice.
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
English commentators need to stop analysing Northern Ireland through an English lens! When you see anti-immigrant riots in Belfast, Ballymena or Larne and immediately reach for "Britain's far-right problem", you're missing half the story. This isn't just racism. It's loyalist terrorism. 1/
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Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Always instructive when far right fash get a free pass to do whatever they want, whilst pensioners get arrested for holding up a bit of cardboard calling out a genocide.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
There's no debate which is improved by the intervention of Tony Blair. This is ableism. It frames anxiety, depression and ADHD as things people just need to get on with, with no acknowledgement of how damaging that attitude is, or how hard it can be to be recognised and diagnosed in the first place.
Block people with anxiety and ADHD from claiming benefits, says Tony Blair

Claimants should have to support claims with medical evidence, says think tank


Szu Ping Chan

Economics Editor

Szu Ping Chan is The Telegraph's Economics Editor.


Published 28 April 2026 6:00am BST

Sir Tony Blair has called for a block on people with anxiety, depression and ADHD from claiming benefits, highlighting a growing rift within Labour over welfare reform.
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DrEddful @eddedmondson.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026
Check your Sertraline if you're on it in the UK www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Precautionary recall of antidepressant medication due to manufacturing error
The MHRA has advised healthcare professionals to stop supplying the affected batch of Sertraline 100mg and return all remaining stock to their suppliers.
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The wonderful Lavender Menace in Edinburgh are doing a fundraiser to support their operating costs! They've been able to do so much as a staffed organisation - it will be so good for queer life in Scotland if they can keep going: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-laven...
crowdfunder.co.uk
Save Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive
Lavender Menace, the only queer books archive in Scotland, needs your support to continue protecting queer history - and to create more!
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Many vital links in the Glasgow arts scene - including Project Ability, a haven for people with learning difficulties and mental health challenges - are affected by this threatened eviction. Sign the petition and, if you’re in Glasgow, contact your councillor.
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Bikes for Refugees (Scotland) @bikes4refugees.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
PROPERTY WANTED URGENTLY! Our charity finds itself having to identify a new community hub/workshop in Edinburgh (& funds) ASAP due to an eviction notice with other charities. We are reaching out to our wonderful community of supporters- plz contact if you have any leads admin@bikesforrefugees.scot
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Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If ever there was a time for the Scottish Government to take action and kick Trump’s troops out of Prestwick, it is now.
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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅
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Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain. This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region. aje.news/64yl8m?updat...
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Israel bombs Tehran oil depots; Bahrain says Iran hit desalination plant
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia report more attacks as Trump says the war will only end when Iran's leaders 'cry uncle'.
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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Today is a dark day for anyone who believes in sanctuary in the UK. People who've fled war and torture should be able to rebuild their lives in peace and security - not live under a constant threat of removal. We must not stop fighting these appalling anti-refugee laws.
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Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum
Home secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
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Ashok Dadhwal @ashokdadhwal196.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The death toll rises and two realities collide: imagine headlines if 148 schoolgirls were massacred in New York, London or Paris. After this and Palestine, the asymmetry of grief in our so-called world order is brutal and impossible to unsee.
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Strike on Iranian primary school kills 148, authorities say
Girls’ education facility hit as US and Israel launch joint military operation
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran. Iraq lessons must be learned. Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe. Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The Department of Languages at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social is facing serious cuts with a proposal to make 11 of its staff redundant, stop offering undergraduate Chinese and German and eliminate intercultural studies courses. Please sign this petition: heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/05/s...
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Save LINCS petition
To Principal Richard Williams, the University Executive and Court The Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University is under threat to lose a third of its staff, f...
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Tressa Burke, chief executive officer of the Glasgow Disability Alliance says she turned down an MBE because the recent budget “supercharged the inequalities and unfairness disabled people face”. “It is fuelling misinformation. It is fuelling hatred. It is fuelling blame and scapegoating." Bravo ⭐
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Campaigner turned down MBE over ‘scapegoating’ of people with disabilities
Exclusive: In letter declining proposed award, Tressa Burke, CEO of Glasgow Disability Alliance, accused government of ‘fuelling hatred’
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/12/2025
Absolute bullshit, and authors, if Harlequin has your foreign rights, you should also complain.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/12/2025
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive: goodlaw.social/cpfx
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Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Starmer CHOSE to keep the Supreme Court misjudgment despite its obvious flaws and its injustice. It allows him to deniably harm trans people. It is a mixture of political cowardice, gratuitous oppression, lack of principle and hypocrisy which defines the content of his character.
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ILGA-Europe @ilgaeurope.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
New ILGA-Europe data shows how stigma, discrimination & economic insecurity push LGBTI people into hidden homelessness across Europe. Change is possible with inclusive policies, trauma-informed services and action on structural discrimination. www.ilga-europe.org/press-releas...
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Press Release: New Report Highlights Hidden Homelessness Faced by LGBTI People in Europe | ILGA-Europe
New cross-country findings show how systemic stigma and economic vulnerability push LGBTI people into hidden homelessness and long-term instability.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This is just one “news” paper - The Times. They are OBSESSED with attacking trans people! 😖 They will absolutely KNOW that it’s TDoR today, and will have published this transphobic bilge as a gesture of power and provocation. It is pure, malicious, propaganda! 😣
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This is also still ongoing, to fund English translations of African novels written in non-colonial languages! (which do not get translated very frequently!)
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Let's take a ride... My next book is coming out with @faberbooks.bsky.social. Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains will be published March 12 2026. Preorder links in profile, and lots more on the book and the remarkable stories people told me to come over the next few months...
Cover of a book: Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Tonight I was talking to a friend about this and she told me, this is one more major milestone in the decline of German democracy. For many people, it will be the thing that makes them decide to pack their bags, in anticipation of what is coming.
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Joy @joybella.blacksky.app · 19/10/2025
Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?
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dr nicky imrie @njimrie.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Brilliant short play on #BBCRadio4Extra today: #Autumn by #SusanHill. A couple tries to escape their past by moving home. Stars #JuneBrown and a classic telly fave, #BernardHepton. And today is centenary of his birth. Something for @secretarmypod.bsky.social fans? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Autumn by Susan Hill - BBC Sounds
A middle-aged couple battle to escape their past. Stars June Brown.
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dr nicky imrie @njimrie.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Excellent, wide-ranging long thread on the state of the UK... Thank you @tanjabueltmann.net
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dr nicky imrie @njimrie.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
And while you are visiting @edinburghprints.bsky.social be sure to leave plenty of time check out Robert Powell's astonishing Hall of Hours installation with working clock and gorgeous copper ornaments.
A clock set with in a symmetrical, decorative, colourful structure along one wall of a room. The structure has copper ornamental plates and pendulum.
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dr nicky imrie @njimrie.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Such a moving, thought-provoking and vibrant exhibtion @edinburghprints.bsky.social reflecting on and exploring Asqa Arif's lived experiences of seeking asylum, housing injustice, culture/art-washing and maintaining and negotiating cultural heritage in Glasgow. Highly recommend!
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 22/09/2025
Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts. We are stable parts of the human genome. “Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason; our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species.” —Carol Black, A Thousand Rivers stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
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Behold the Spectrum
Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts.We are stable parts of the human genome.If you believe in a Maker, Maker built us in.Look to Maker and behold the Spectrum!If you don’t subscribe…
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 12/09/2025
We asked the EHRC whether they consulted any trans, intersex or LGBTQ+ groups before intervening in the 2024 Supreme Court case For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers. Their answer? They didn’t. 1/
Text about EHRC not directly contacting Transgender, Intersex, LGBTQ+ groups before November 2024 hearing. Describes regular engagement with such groups.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Shameful, the UK arresting people for wearing T-Shirts and holding signs. Where are the people who scream for the right to Free Speech?
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
don't forget to donate to individual fundraisers too. here is a site that tracks individual campaigns and boosts the ones with little or no donations: lifeline4gaza.com
lifeline4gaza.com
lifeline4gaza - a list of appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza
lifeline4gaza gathers links to existing chuffed & gofundme appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza.
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Kat Hall 📚 @kathall.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This is an important thread & piece about the negative impact of AI on the translation sector - sobering & illuminating #xl8
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Absolutely perfect! 👏 #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Occupational Therapy History Matters @othistorymatters.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
A devastating critique of an uncurated, uncatalogued collection @profdanhicks.bsky.social A new museum/archive/warehouse in London with 'at least a thousand unlabelled items sitting on the shelves. There’s no way of finding out what they are'. Extraordinary! artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
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What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse
You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit
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James McEnaney @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
More than half of Glasgow's high schools found out today that they will have ZERO library staff when the school year starts tomorrow. Full story from @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2538717...
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Sixteen Glasgow secondaries will have no library staff as new school year begins
The development comes as proposals to scrap all school librarians in Glasgow are being considered.
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Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir @uglastefania.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It has been six years since the Gender Autonomy Act was passed in Iceland. In those six years, none of the usual fears that anti-trans advocates warn against have manifested - and trans people, non-binary people and intersex people have enjoyed increased rights and protections.
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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 08/08/2025
We're now at a point where MSPs are lodging complete and utter bollocks at Holyrood as part of the wider campaign against trans people. The report this MSP wants to welcome is complete pish, rooted in the so-called "LGB Alliance" *asking their own supporters* views. It represents nobody but them.
A motion by Conservative MSP Tess White heaping praise on a bullshit report by the misleadingly named "LGB Alliance" which claims to find, amongst other things, that LGB people don't like being included with trans people.A summary of the reports methodolgy which shows it just asked its own members.
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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Exactly one hundred years ago - EJ MacRae was appointed Edinburgh's City Architect - Here is a short piece on the work of MacRae and his team. blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/07/eben...
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Ebenezer James MacRae: the man who transformed Edinburgh - Historic Environment Scotland Blog
Ebenezer MacRae’s was appointed as Edinburgh’s City Architect 100 years ago. So who was the man who transformed Edinburgh?
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