Tom Shields On... Archive

  • Tuesday 5 March 2013

    Disappointed with your Unionist party?

  • Saturday 2 March 2013

    Exciting news from the Department of Sorting Things Out Once and For All, the Government super-ministry with a task to address issues that have been intractable no matter which political party is in power.

  • Thursday 28 February 2013

    Rangers FC has asked supporters yet again to refrain from refrains of a sectarian nature.

  • Tuesday 26 February 2013

    Skyscrapers of the future will be "living" buildings which cater for the needs of the inhabitants and put more into the environment than they take out.

  • Saturday 23 February 2013

    There's enough of it on the street already.

  • Thursday 21 February 2013

    Latest news from the Large Hadron Collider is that we are all doomed.

  • Saturday 16 February 2013

    In the comprehensive coverage of this "biggest ever investigation" into the meat trade, one statistic seems to be missing: How many dead?

  • Thursday 14 February 2013

    Cheap but meaningful gestures appear to be the way ahead on this St Valentine's Day.

  • Tuesday 12 February 2013

    I've been reading about London's private member clubs for toddlers.

  • Saturday 9 February 2013

    Tensions are running high between France and England what with devious rosbif David Cameron sabotaging the European Union budget upon which so many French farmers rely for a livelihood.

  • Thursday 7 February 2013

    An early memory is of waking my siblings at 6am on the day of a family picnic to Rouken Glen to warn if we did not get a move on the park would be full.

  • Tuesday 5 February 2013

    I was going to write on this topic last week.

  • Saturday 2 February 2013

    You have to feel sorry for Michael O'Leary and Ryanair.

  • Thursday 31 January 2013

    Latest scaremongering from the Too Poor To Be Apart camp is that a separate Scotland could not afford to look after its national security.

  • Tuesday 29 January 2013

    In the battle against the devil having all the good tunes, churches are turning to karaoke.

  • Saturday 26 January 2013

    Glasgow has won a £24 million grant to make it a smart city.

  • Thursday 24 January 2013

    The good news is that as of yesterday I am no longer obese.

  • Tuesday 22 January 2013

    The alcohol-fuelled trouble at Old Firm games (remember them?) is down to Neil Lennon and Ally McCoist.

  • Sunday 20 January 2013

    I'VE been praying for rain in Catalonia, so the neeps can grow for Burns Supper time.

  • Thursday 17 January 2013

    I WAS not aware there is a burger police with a CSI unit that checks your dinner for horse DNA.

  • Tuesday 15 January 2013

    I THINK we should bring the referendum forward.

  • Monday 14 January 2013

    If you have tried all the diets and failed to lose weight, the problem may be your hardware.

  • Sunday 13 January 2013

    THERE is no shortage of fancy design in the six submissions for the George Square project.

  • Thursday 10 January 2013

    The statement by Peter Kearney, the Catholic Church's spin doctor, about us RCs being the blacks of Scotland brings memories flooding back of life on the plantation in the deep south of Glasgow.

  • Tuesday 8 January 2013

    A tomato a day keeps the heart surgeon at bay.

  • Sunday 6 January 2013

    YOU may have heard about the mum whose poo went viral on Facebook.

  • Saturday 5 January 2013

    The idea of the Conservative-run Westminster Council in London to cut the housing benefit of fat and lazy people may seem a touch radical.

  • Thursday 3 January 2013

    It must be these dark, post-festive days of the new year that set me thinking about the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient.

  • Tuesday 1 January 2013

    Moments of bureaucratic madness are to be expected as Scotland's eight constabularies merge into one.

  • Saturday 29 December 2012

    There was an unusual bit of sentencing at Perth Sheriff Court.