Interview with Irvine Welsh

From time to time, yes. I’m intrigued by how Edinburgh has since become a successful model for all UK cities in terms of so-called regeneration. Push the working classes out to the edges, camera-up the city centre and fill it with posh students, the ultra-wealthy and tourists. Edinburgh was always a working-class city, though not a proletarian, industrial one like Glasgow. That’s changed and most other cities have followed that model.