Edinburgh Council racking up scandalous costs in its attempt to close strip clubs
2023-12-08
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Edinburgh's endeavors to implement a new licensing scheme for strip clubs have once again stumbled into delays, as the council disclosed the need for additional legal counsel. This admission follows their persistent pursuit to close down the city's strip clubs, despite the staggering expense incurred by taxpayers—a hefty £208,000 bill footed for the failed previous attempt.
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Labour leader of Edinburgh council still wants to ban city’s strip clubs
2023-10-26
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The ban on strip clubs in Edinburgh has raised eyebrows for its nonsensical nature, as the Labour leader of the city council throws his weight behind a second attempt to close down these establishments. What makes this move even more confounding is the staggering legal bill taxpayers were slapped with for the failed first attempt, a hefty £200,000.
Councillor Cammy Day has indicated hi .....
Edinburgh Review: ADULTS at Traverse Theatre
2023-08-24
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Gina: Hey, have you heard about the new play at the Traverse Theatre? It's by Kieran Hurley, the same person who did Mouthpiece.
Sophie: Oh yeah, I remember Mouthpiece. What's this new play called?
Gina: It's called Adults. It's basically a comedy about misunderstandings and conflicts between generations, you know, millennials and boomers.
Sophie: Sounds interesting .....
Adults: how a sex play about boomers v millennials brings both together
2023-08-19
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Kieran Hurley's play "Adults" brilliantly highlights an intergenerational clash, fostering empathy between boomers (1945-1964) and millennials (1981-1996) in the audience. The story kicks off amusingly as a strawberry milkshake splatters on Iain (Conleth Hill), who's early at Zara's (Dani Heron) flat. Zara, a sex worker, runs her ethical business from home.
In his 60s, .....
There’s more loneliness than lust in parts of our sex industry - Tom Wood
2020-09-28
elrond
So we are to have a national conversation on sex work; fair enough. But just to make sure we know our direction of travel, the agenda is clear – to criminalise the buying of sex.
Just before lockdown, while researching a book about the sex industry, I had the opportunity to individually interview six women who work in Edinburgh saunas. Aged between 29 and 56, two were eastern European, .....