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About George Rosie

George Rosie is a reporter, writer and broadcaster. His documentary After Lockerbie won a BAFTA in 1998. He is the author of Curious Scotland and is working on a second novel.

Winners and losers on #MoultriesHill Part 3

September 5, 2019 by George Rosie 3 Comments

Demolishing St James Square – dramatic image of destruction

Updated: Having won a battle that they should have lost (over the hotel), the bosses of Edinburgh St James are now engaged in one they should lose…but eventiually reached a settlement instead.

New Brutalism in St James Square: #MoultriesHill Part 2

September 2, 2019 by George Rosie 1 Comment

The former New St Andrew House. The gaunt, grey brutalist look of the 1960s

Enough was enough. The cost and the disruption were too much. It made more sense to build the new Scottish Office elsewhere and leave the old gaunt, grey building to the pigeons.

The tangled history of Edinburgh St James

August 30, 2019 by George Rosie 7 Comments

Red hoardings promise regeneration at Edinburgh St James

‘So St. James Square remained the province of a handful of small businesses and workshops and 3,700 or so of Edinburgh’s lower orders and their exploitative, ever-neglectful landlords. The long decline of James Craig’s tenement buildings continued. Rack followed ruin and ruin begat rack.’

Scotland still losing the heid

March 2, 2016 by George Rosie Leave a Comment

‘Losing the heid’ is the title of an STV documentary on foreign takers of Scottish companies made by the author 25 years ago. Here he returns to the topic, finds more and more ‘crown jewels’ are no longer in Scottish hands, with Holyrood powerless to stop the process, and lists those that have gone recently.

Overloaded, under stress: Forth Road Bridge

December 8, 2015 by George Rosie 2 Comments

Who’s to blame for the closure of the Forth Road Bridge? No-one, or perhaps everyone. George Rosie counts the ways we have overloaded the fifty-one year old structure.

Lights going out all over Scotland

November 11, 2015 by George Rosie Leave a Comment

Scotland faces an acute energy gap in the near future and the Scottish Government will fall short of its 2020 target of self-sufficiency in energy supply via a ‘balanced mix.’ Key elements of this mix, especially renewables, will fail too deliver so – apart from imports from England – we could be forced to make a very rapid ‘dash for gas’ as alternatives run dry.

Double crossings: the Queensferry Crossing and the future of Scottish engineering

June 6, 2015 by George Rosie 2 Comments

The Queensferry or Second Forth Crossing is no triumph of Scottish engineering but, rather, a reflection of globalisation. George Rosie reports on – and laments – how very few Scottish firms are engaged in building this hugely important and costly infrastructure project.

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