Tom Shields On... Archive

  • Saturday 27 October 2012

    The clock goes back tomorrow and there is the usual debate about how it is good news for farmers and people who live in Bournemouth.

  • Thursday 25 October 2012

    A list has been compiled of things a dog should do before it dies.

  • Tuesday 23 October 2012

    IT is no surprise that a survey reveals 24,000 families in Scotland suffer from "severe disadvantage".

  • Sunday 21 October 2012

    Her Majesty's secret service is taking on a bunch of apprentice spies straight from school.

  • Saturday 20 October 2012

    There is much concern among the lieges about Charles, Prince of Wales, and his penchant for interfering in the business of government.

  • Thursday 18 October 2012

    As William Wallace said: They can take away our shipbuilding.

  • Tuesday 16 October 2012

    You may be pre-occupied by all this referendum stuff but there is some important epidemiological research I must first bring to your attention.

  • Sunday 14 October 2012

    David Cameron has found £50 million from the UK's overstretched budget for events to mark the centenary of the Great War.

  • Saturday 13 October 2012

    The genie of electoral reform is out of the bottle as it appears people as young as 16 will have their say in the referendum on Scottish independence.

  • Thursday 11 October 2012

    I AM indebted to Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson for the information that I am soon to be worthless, useless, and altogether a burden on society.

  • Tuesday 9 October 2012

    There is no point trying to drag weans unwillingly to the Kirk of a Sunday morning or, indeed, any other time.

  • Saturday 6 October 2012

    THE story of two customers barred from an all-you-can-eat establishment raises a few social and economic questions and issues.

  • Thursday 4 October 2012

    It's no way to run a railway with all this confusion about the future of the West Coast line.

  • Tuesday 2 October 2012

    I'm awfy worried about the high street.

  • Saturday 29 September 2012

    Watching golf on the telly is a good lie-down on the sofa ruined, as Mark Twain once said.

  • Thursday 27 September 2012

    It is very kind of Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont to enlist my help in solving the economic crisis.

  • Tuesday 25 September 2012

    It has gone on far too long, this debate over the Tory Chief Whip effin' and blindin' at the polis and maybe calling them plebs.

  • Thursday 20 September 2012

    Never mind a new iPhone5, what I want is Baxter the affordable robot.

  • Wednesday 19 September 2012

    Bloody Scotland, the first international festival of crime writing held in Stirling last weekend, was hailed as a success.

  • Tuesday 18 September 2012

    The Human Fertilisation Authority is holding a public consultation into the ethics of using three people to create one baby.

  • Monday 17 September 2012

    The Bitter* Together campaign is worried about a post-independence Scotland not getting to see one of our favourite aunties.

  • Sunday 16 September 2012

    GEORGE Square in Glasgow is to have a total makeover.

  • Thursday 13 September 2012

    Coming soon on the Microsoft Xbox, 3D games that fill the entire room.

  • Wednesday 12 September 2012

    A new hazard has emerged on my journey from being obese to merely fat.

  • Tuesday 11 September 2012

    News from the world of science is that quantum physicists are no longer too sure of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.

  • Monday 10 September 2012

    The good news for heavy drinkers is that they may qualify for a bigger pension.

  • Sunday 9 September 2012

    THERE has been a debate on the bravery of burglars.

  • Thursday 6 September 2012

    The main benefit of being devolved over the last 13 years is not having to worry too much about what is going on with the Westminster Government.

  • Tuesday 4 September 2012

    The Anglican church in Sydney, Australia, plans to change the marriage vows and have the bride pledge to "submit" to her husband.

  • Monday 3 September 2012

    The latest Scottish Household Survey gives a snapshot of how our lives have changed in just one year.