LISTENING to Anas Sarwar on The Sunday Show this weekend, I did a double-take. I thought I heard him say that while in England you can vote and get married at 18, in Scotland the age is 16. That couldn’t be right, could it?
‘WHEN I was a child I didn’t dream of being Prime Minister,” a drained-looking Keir Starmer declared at the weekend, following a round of probing questions from the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg.
THIS week saw Holyrood and Westminster get back to business. We first had PMQ on Wednesday and then FMQ on Thursday. A rare occurrence at PMQs was the attendance of the Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross MP and MSP in the House of Commons. He got the opportunity to put a question to the PM, but avoided questioning his on the NHS crisis in the UK.
ONE minute I was humming along to the soundtrack of Mary Poppins, the next it was drugs, robberies and racial politics in the comedy-drama series Atlanta. That’s how these streaming services get you. One thing leads to another.
I’M willing to admit that until last week, the name Andrew Tate meant nothing to me. Despite his overblown boast of being “the most googled man on the f***ing planet”, he’s not been trying to get on the radar of people like me.
I KNOW it seems callous to talk about discarding presents barely 48 hours after receiving them, but hear me out.
A FRIEND recently introduced me to the concept of Whamageddon – the aim is to get through the whole of Advent without hearing a single recognisable snippet of the festive classic Last Christmas. I crashed out within weeks, but on the plus side, it really is a great tune. Would Christmas be the same without it?
TALK about putting your money where your mouth is. The news that JK Rowling has established a women-only centre for survivors of sexual violence should be music to the ears of both her supporters and her detractors. Who wouldn’t welcome additional support for women who have endured these horrific experiences? God knows it’s needed.
AS the nights darken to pitch black and the temperature drops, venturing into the woods of central Scotland might not be everyone’s idea of a comfortable mini-break. However, a trio of new eco-friendly lodges in Alloa are extremely cosy, a little luxurious and not too far off the beaten track ... and they might just inspire you to boost your own home’s green credentials.
IT’S high time there was a serious challenge to the
