Not The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Thursday 22 January 2026
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🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. Sorry to say there's no proper newsletter today as I'm getting over illness. I wrote this last night and am taking my first sick day in more than 800 editions.
I'll still plan to send your usual Friday 7am round-up and weekend guide tomorrow morning. 📮 Got a weekend event to share? Please send your local news and events here.
Michael MacLeod
Meantime, for something to read, here's this week's Culture Minute. It's the 115th weekly edition and (for some people) the essential guide to enjoying Edinburgh. It's usually for paying subscribers, but today I've moved the paywall to just above the jobs board, so everyone can read most of it for free. It does take a lot more work than it looks so please subscribe if you can. One day I hope to employ some help so a sick day doesn't mean no newsletter. This reminds me to let new readers know about the Minute's 'business model', if you can call it that, which is that the free daily newsletter is free... unless you want to pay. It's based on trust and hope that if you value something, you'll support it for a relatively small amount of money. It's always been £5 per month, or even less if you get an annual subscription. It was never meant to be a business but I'm so chuffed that some of you continue to support it. Thanks (so so much) to those who do, the Minute remains ad-free too, which is increasingly rare in in this bat-shit news industry. But without paying subscribers, it simply wouldn't exist. So if the Minute is useful to you at all (apart from today's edition, sorry), then please consider chipping in a wee bit to help keep it going. A reader-supported and ad-free newsletter is a sure sign of a genuinely thriving community, so kudos to all you Minute members. It wouldn't exist without you. Right, I'm going around in circles now. See you tomorrow.
For those who are interested, here are yesterday’s top links:
👀 The most-visited links from the last newsletter:
- 💰 Council’s multi-million pound tourist tax income shopping list. [1,600 clicks]
- 🏆 Morningside football girls' tiny trophy triumph. [900 clicks]
- 🏗️ Venue upgrade for architect Malcolm Fraser's lecture. [850 clicks]
- 🤝 Waverley Gate building 'on the verge of changing hands'. [700 clicks]
- 🪴 Abbeymount community books, plants and clothes swap event. [300 clicks]
Don’t want to subscribe but still keen to show your support? Please like this post (at the bottom of the post page online) or put a coin/note into the tip jar below. It all helps keep the Minute ticking over. Thanks again!
⏰ Thanks for reading edition number 821.
📬 Free subscribers: 27,900+.
📲 Visits generated for local news sources: 2,000,000+.
Back on Friday ✌️
