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Alan SimpsonHerald Scotland |
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 mac...
ACCORDING to the sartorially challenged but slick Yorkshire crooner Robert Palmer in 1985, we all had to face being addicted to love. The hit song...
You can feel there’s an election on as politicians seem to be popping up in the most unlikeliest places which can only mean they are looking for...
ONE of the bizarre unintended consequences of moving towards a greener way of living is that the weather seems to have been replaced as the main topic...
WHEN you are a young child and you really want to emphasise displeasure with something, your parents or green vegetables, then the word most commonly...
IT is fair to assume that it must be a frustrating time living on Scotland’s islands at the moment. The well-documented ferry problems have ruined...
PORRIDGE has sustained generations of Scots for several millennia, but the way to eat it has caused arguments for almost as long. To some, it should...
THERE are some occupations that are so self explanatory there doesn’t need to be any supplementary questions. Pilots, for example, fly planes,...
After what seems to have been several millennia and at a cost of the entire GDP if the US, a momentous thing happened this week when the MV Glen...
IF you were to ask the average Scot what has no place in a modern Scotland, then the answers would probably vary wildly. For patients, waiting...
TYNINGHAME is a picture postcard conservation village in East Lothian situated just west of Dunbar and a decent commute into Edinburgh. With its...
IT is fair to say that William Shakespeare is not to everyone’s taste, probably as a result of having to study his plays for far too long while at...
MORE than 50 years ago, John Cleese brought the now-famed Ministry of Silly Walks to TV screens for the first time in Monty Python’s Flying Circus. ...
MUCH of Scotland could easily be designated as a national park given it’s stunning beauty and worldwide popularity. But of course there are only...
SCOTLAND has nearly 900 islands although just 94 are inhabited, with 89 of those offshore. Over the centuries, some have been depopulated out of...
ACCORDING to that well-known sage Forrest Gump, life is like a box of chocolates, as you never know what you’re going to get. For many businesses...
STROLLING around the tree-lined courtyards of Harvard university with my chum was an inspiring experience. So much so, in fact, that we decided to...
IT’s that time of the year when the great, the good and Greta all troop off once again to the annual COP extravaganza in a vain bid to save the...
IT is a phrase that is bandied around on an almost daily basis by politicians and environmentalists to trying to and soften the blow of thousands of...
Some readers regularly comment that this column is usually filled with absolute s***e. So, as if to emphasise the point, today’s offering features...
SEVERAL years ago – actually, make that many years ago – a curious thing happened as I partook in a football match on a pitch situated next to a...
Every primary school pupil fancies themselves as a vexillologist after a few lessons of identifying the world’s flags. Vexillology is a skill that...
ON the face of it, golfer Tiger Woods and fashion designer Stella McCartney seem to have very little in common. Both, of course, are extremely...
IT’s that horrible time of year when the colour drains out of the days, the nights get increasingly longer and the lawnmowers are put back in the...
RANK hypocrisy can take many shapes and forms with some seemingly unwitting but the end result is always the same. When a billionaire, for example,...
IT is 40 years since Taggart first hit the screens and showed the dark underbelly of Glasgow to a worldwide audience. The elaborate, some might say...