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Now I've got your attention… East Lothian's schools go phone-free from October. A pub chain just asked drinkers to stop playing videos out loud. A North Berwick café owner has been quietly fighting laptops for years. None of it is really about the technology — it's about which part of life gets to leak into which room. Issue 05 · 17 Sep 2026
The sea doesn't stop at the golf course The West Links has engineers, new sea defences, a charity and a fifty-year plan. A few hundred yards along the same beach, Elcho Green has a repair from the last storm and little else on the public record. One coastline; two very different levels of planning. Issue 04 · 10 Sep 2026
We got to choose our scars. Bass Rock didn't get a vote. There's a steel feather on the coastal path remembering our pandemic. A few hundred yards offshore are the birds that lived through theirs, and some of them are still carrying it in their eyes. Issue 03 · 3 Sep 2026
The Glen was never just a golf club. Six hundred years say so. I don't play golf. Members vote soon on handing the Glen to a private operator for 125 years. Here's why I think that's a town question, not just a club one. Issue 02 · 27 Aug 2026
The parking row was never really about parking On Tuesday the council reviews the charges. But the meters are only the part of this argument we can see. Issue 01 · 20 Aug 2026