Edinburgh tourism gripes don’t tell the whole story – Roddy Smith

You would think that we live in one of the worst places on the planet if you believed some of the chatter on social media and ­elsewhere – Edinburgh City Council in crisis, councillors fighting amongst each other in public and ­private, ­tourism on the rocks, poverty and unemployment growing, ­business floundering, residents in revolt, infrastructure crumbling, shiny new trams and pedestrian roads we can’t afford.