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I DIDN’T intend to spend my evening eavesdropping on one of…
MAGGOTS! Pukes! Pieces of amphibian shit! Your country needs you!…
Allistair Burt is the maker behind EatHaggis.com, a range of…
THE presents are all unwrapped, the last of the turkey’s been…
JUDGING by the more alarmist news headlines from the past year,…
DEAR Sir Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, Woof woof woof! Friendly…
REPORTS from across the pond suggest a new spectral trend could…
IT’S the thought that counts, so we’re told. The actual gift…
STRUGGLING to think of gift ideas for your nearest and dearest?…
KATHERINE Pentney is the maker behind Paisley-based brand The…
TODAY is St Andrew’s Day, which presents an excellent…
ROLL up, roll up, and grab your tickets now for the family panto…
AS the nation holds its breath waiting for Nicola Sturgeon to…
INT. a bleak greasy-spoon cafe with blacked-out windows in…
THE news that a dead brothel-keeper has been elected to…
THERE’S nothing like an income tax hike to give high-earners…
NOT everyone was comfortable advertising their attendance at…
PETERSON was born in 1962, the son of a teacher and a librarian,…
THE air is thick with hair gel and testosterone. Never have I…
THERE’S a rustle in the grass. A brief flash of straw-coloured…
THE darkness has descended. Poor old George Galloway had only…
BY the time you read this, Scotland’s one-man hard Brexit…
ON the day when it was announced there would be no criminal…
IT was the hand over her mouth to muffle her screams that was the…
BAD news travels fast, and a sharp decline in happiness among…
I’VE never seen Braveheart. When it was released in 1995, I…
ANOTHER week, another session of FMQs dominated by the thorny…
WHOEVER came up with the name for the Regulation of Investigatory…
IT’S odd, when you think about it, that Mother Nature has such…
OH, Jeremy Corbyn. Remember those heady days when a catchphrase…
THE proposal sounds simple enough: create “safe zones” around…
IT has become a case of she said, they said.
THE high street is dying, and it might be my fault. Or at least, it…
WHEN I told friends I’d been asked to leave a workshop at a…
WHEN Jennifer McGowan first spotted Andy Smith, there was…
THE search is on for a new Catholic chaplain for Glasgow…
THE first time I was called a lady, I was wearing elf ears. I was…
A DEAD child. A devastated family. A shell-shocked community. A…
IT’S a good thing I’m not a betting woman. Caught on the hop by…
‘WHAT about the men?” is one of those phrases that tends to…
IF in doubt, “criminals!” shout. That seems to be Ruth…
SHE’S one of the most famous women in the world, with a fanbase…
IT first happened when I was seven. A boy in my class tried to…
WE’VE all been on the receiving end at some point. A sales…
THE Children’s Hearing had concluded, and I was typing up the…
THE figures are startling. Almost a quarter of a million women who…
IF you’re lucky, you’ll have got this far in life without…
THE optics, as they say, are not good. A Conservative MP grinning…
SOMETIMES it’s hard to be a woman. Other times, life is made…
WITH the depressing extent of the UK’s gender pay gap now laid…
