OUR youngest MP, Paisley's Mhairi Black, was accused on a social media site of already forgetting her roots by quaffing champagne in a British Airways lounge at Glasgow Airport.

Fortunately Mhairi responded with: "I think you need to check your sources. It was Highland Spring and a bowl of soup. Sorry to disappoint!"

So the site tried to correct itself by posting: "According to Mhairi she was not drinking Champagne but fizzy water." We like Mhairi's further correction: "It wasn't even fizzy. I only like still water preferably out the tap. I'll keep you updated if that changes."

That's them told Mhairi.

THE other political news was former Lib Dem MP Malcolm Bruce coming to Alistair Carmichael's defence by arguing: "The Commons would be cleared very quickly if every MP that told a brazen lie had to quit." However a reader phones to ask: "But how do we know that Malcolm was telling the truth?"

Oh and political journalist Jamie Ross searched his memory for an example of an MP lying and recalls an interview with former MP George Galloway. "When I met Galloway for a coffee he said, 'I'll get these' and told me to sit down. He left first, then the waiter demanded payment from me," says Jamie.

CHEMISTRY exams for Scottish pupils this week. A science teacher tells us before his pupils went on study leave one of them asked: "What if oxygen is actually poisonous, but it takes about 70 years to kills us?"

A STORY about back court singers in Glasgow reminds Jay Smart, formerly of Govanhill: "When about eight, I watched from the top floor window a raggedy mendicant attempted to regale us with a song. I decided to give him a piece n jam which I wrapped in the waxy Mother's Pride paper and dropped it down to him.

"He paused his serenade to pick up the gift, and I can only presume that he was expecting financial assistance as he threw it down in absolute disgust, and I heard a number of novel phrases that day which I made a mental note to relay at school on Monday."

POLICE Scotland have an initiative against wayward motorists which they call Operation CEDAR, standing for Challenge, Educate, Detect And Reduce. Given the number of drivers that have been fined during the operation, a reader wonders if it actually stands for "Cash Extracted Daily At Roadside".

STAND-UP Milton Jones, who is appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, is in the middle of a lengthy tour of England just now. As he joked with fans: "This week it's St Albans, Southampton, Aylesbury, and High Wycombe. Not for the squeamish.

"We go to Squeam the week after."

ALL the talk about Eton FPs now running the country reminds a reader of a newspaper cutting from 1966 which he sends us of a mystery fire breaking out underneath the Scottish National Orchestra playing a concert at Eton, and the tuba player grabbing a fire extinguisher to extinguish it.

We contact said tubaist, Erik Knussen, now in Girvan who muses: "As a lot of our leaders went to Eton, I wonder if I changed the course of history by putting out the fire that day?"

FINGERS crossed the better weather will last a bit longer, but we doubt it. A colleague says he even had some midges in the garden at the weekend. "I sprayed one of them with midge repellent," he tells us. "Now he won't have any friends."