IN a car crash of an interview with the BBC, Stewart McDonald appears to have allowed the dog to have eaten his homework.

OUR mutual friend Stuart McHardy could not have put it better when he said that “we lost a braw fechter for Scotland in Ivor Birnie”, when Ivor saw his final Hogmanay, leaving this world just after the 2022 bells. Ivor’s brother Stewart had died in 2015, so he leaves the remaining three of his five siblings, Anne, June and Ron. He was remembered this week at a post-pandemic “cheeky wee glass” in Wilkies Bar.

ON the eve of the day that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference was due to start at the UN in New York if it had not been postponed again due to Covid, the Leaders of the five nuclear-armed states that are signatories to that treaty have issued a joint statement which they describe as being on "Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races".

ON Sunday October 3, a group of peace activists placed three large stones near the entrance to the UK Government building in New Street, Edinburgh.

SCOTLAND, its parliament, its government and people will soon have the indisputable backing of the global community in its opposition to the nuclear weapons on the Clyde.

THE devolved parliament in Scotland, elected through proportional representation, has undoubtedly attended to many of what are described as women’s issues. New legislation to protect women from men’s violence towards them and their children for a start.