UK’s Summer of Discontent Hits Streets at Edinburgh Fringe

Municipal refuse collectors during strike action in Edinburgh, on Aug. 18.Photographer: Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images
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The sold-out shows, packed restaurants and heaving pubs might suggest Edinburgh’s annual arts festival had evaded the UK’s cost-of-living crisis and the constant drip of bad news about the economy. But what’s being called Britain’s summer of discontent has hit the streets of the Scottish capital.