Tom Shields On...

  • 24 May 2012

    We have traipsed round this track before but the idiocy of the London Olympics merchandise police knows no bounds.

  • 23 May 2012

    There'S no great rush this side of the Border to arrange street parties for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

  • 22 May 2012

    Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to join the No campaign.

  • 21 May 2012

    I read that a stately pleasure dome has been decreed.

  • 20 May 2012

    THERE is bad news on retirement.

  • 20 May 2012

    THE economic downturn is changing people's living habits, with almost 19 million people in Britain no longer throwing dinner parties because of the expense.

  • 17 May 2012

    DAVID Cameron's approval rating is at its lowest ever level.

  • 15 May 2012

    The Scottish Government will impose a minimum price on alcohol of 50p per unit.

  • 14 May 2012

    It is jolly unsporting of the London 2012 organisers to deny the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes a wee heat from the Olympic flame.

  • 10 May 2012

    This column has more than a passing interest in bits of kit that let you do amazing stuff with computers.

  • 9 May 2012

    Scottish MPs claim the proposed question in the independence referendum is biased.

  • 8 May 2012

    The BBC, after great success in importing Scandinavian programmes such as The Killing and The Bridge, is to make its own Nordic crime thriller.

  • 7 May 2012

    IT turns out I'm fat because I'm Scottish.

  • 6 May 2012

    SCOTTISH artist Jack Vettriano had a clear-out of his Kirkcaldy flat and studio and auctioned off the contents.

  • 3 May 2012

    THERE is a small war (not many dead, just a festival skirmish) going on in Edinburgh over the use of the word Assembly.

  • 2 May 2012

    The Buffer Institute for the Study of Public Policy and Lots of Other Stuff has conducted a major survey of the top 10 things people are most awfy worried about.