For two entirely unconnected reasons, last week the Royal Mile was in the news across the UK and beyond.

If you want to see one of the proofs of why Edinburgh has been going so fundamentally wrong in recent years then all you have to do is look downwards as you walk through the city.

What’s in a word? For instance, when we say somebody is evil, what do we really mean?

There have been attempts in some quarters to paint the Deloitte report into the property repairs scandal as some kind of whitewash.