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Even as it made an embarrassing climb down on its climate change targets the Scottish Government had the nerve last week to try to rekindle fading...
THERE has been a craze in theatre for dramas where actors play multiple parts. A production of The 39 Steps saw four actors taking on 139 roles....
The game of golf, particularly in the barren hinterlands where this correspondent ekes out a humdrum existence, can best be described as an endless...
You can hardly go a day now without hearing of new advances in Large Language Model (LLMs) artificial intelligence programs, as they leap ahead of...
It seems that former prime minister Liz Truss is not a great fan of the “people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” wisdom. Ms Truss offered...
I remember the first time I saw it: clambering through the heather and the ferns, climbing over the fences, wellies sinking into marsh and bog,...
For Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran it must have seemed like she was back in the classroom, refereeing a heated argument between competing sides....
EVERY year, around late March, I convince myself winter will never end. I survey my lifeless garden and panic that I’ve broken it. And then, just...
The EU’s answer to Donald Trump is Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary. Long regarded as a maverick, the ultra-right wing 60-year-old is...
Entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter has welcomed the announcement from the Scottish Government that they will honour a funding pledge for Scottish EDGE....
Should a proudly Scottish company open up its business model to broader horizons? That’s the question that was put to two of Scotland’s top...
Joseph Healy, the co-founder of Judo Bank, has spoken for the first time since stepping down as CEO to work on a new venture in the mental health...
The PFA Scotland Team of the Year for the 2023/24 campaign was released last week and some of the choices were, well, interesting. Jack Butland,...
The PFA Scotland Team of the Year for the 2023/24 campaign was released last week and some of the choices were, well, interesting. Jack Butland,...
This period between the Easter/Spring break up to around June is, for me, the golden period in a primary school. Relationships within classes are...
MY sons were born travellers. That’s not a boast; it’s a fact. At home, I often struggled to get them breakfasted and out the door of a morning....
Elite sport, as every athlete knows all too well, is a brutal place. Show me an athlete who claims never to have faced an obstacle and I’ll show you...
DOES anyone actually give a Friar Tuck about reaching net zero? By “anyone” I refer, of course, to the people whose lives and futures, we’re...
Here I am, yet again, thinking about air fryers and pondering how they have managed to permeate the collective consciousness to become so highly...
If a week can be a short, sharp shock in politics, it can be quite the slap in the face to the football narrative. Events over the last seven...
SAVVY political analysts often refer to “the Overton Window” these days. Like many ideas that first sprung up in the United States, this...
The Scottish Government has developed a calamitous skill in producing daft legislation. That the Hate Crime Act would bring out every grievance...
When Humza Yousaf took to the stage of Dundee’s Caird Hall on Tuesday to address STUC delegates, few among the audience were expecting the rafters...
Are there enough stations on the Glasgow to Edinburgh train line? A lot of the talk over the years has been about how efficient the service is and...
THE weeks leading up to a European Championship or World Cup finals can very often be as much of an emotional rollercoaster for managers and...
I recently came across a video promoting the new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book, The Twits. It featured Greg James and Chris Smith discussing...
We gaze with pity upon Gaza. We contemplate the emergence of wider conflict between Israel and Iran. We calculate the impact – humanitarian,...
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the idea of a wellbeing economy. This concept aims to ensure equal opportunities for advancement,...
THERE is much to admire about a CalMac ferry, not least the onboard full Scottish breakfast which must rank amongst the best in the country. The...
UNIQLO first crossed my radar on a visit to Japan in 2010. The name was new to me, but the Japanese government guide talked enthusiastically about...
It’s almost impossible to quell feelings of sheer, bleak nihilism when contemplating the state of government at both a Scottish and UK level. The...
This piece is from yesterday's Buddies Briefing newsletter, which is emailed out at 6pm every Thursday. To receive our full, free St Mirren...
What’s a food and drink writer to do when she finds herself unable to eat or drink? After this week I can tell you that the answer is ‘not an...
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act, passed in 2021 and brought into force earlier this month, will probably stand the test of time....