Tom Shields On... Archive

  • Sunday 2 September 2012

    THE Army has finally recognised women's right to Choos.

  • Thursday 30 August 2012

    Today, readers, we are going to do something a bit different.

  • Wednesday 29 August 2012

    A real-life superhero called Wheel Clamp Man is making the world safe for careless parkers.

  • Tuesday 28 August 2012

    You would think folk had more to do with their time than harass golf clubs that don't allow women to become members.

  • Monday 27 August 2012

    There is news that the Westminster parliament may close down for five years.

  • Sunday 26 August 2012

    IT'S an exaggeration to say, as one newspaper did, that Edinburgh Zoo is pimping its pandas.

  • Thursday 23 August 2012

    Shock news from the world of academic research that young children can tell when adults fake being upset.

  • Wednesday 22 August 2012

    The Mars Bar has been modified.

  • Tuesday 21 August 2012

    THERE is cheery news that more Scots weans are getting to go to the yoonie.

  • Monday 20 August 2012

    Bill Gates, the world's richest person, is investing a large chunk of his wealth into a project called Reinvent the Toilet.

  • Sunday 19 August 2012

    PLEASE form an orderly queue all of youse who want to join the Royal Society for the Protection of Posh People.

  • Monday 13 August 2012

    It isn't just the Queen who has diamond jubilees.

  • Saturday 11 August 2012

    It's rare that a news story makes me cry in public; rarer still that one brings forth my tears on a train.

  • Wednesday 8 August 2012

    I'm getting awfy worried about Mars.

  • Tuesday 7 August 2012

    I am doing my bit to save Scottish football from Armageddon, oblivion, the knacker's yard and other predicted destinations.

  • Monday 6 August 2012

    Rod Stewart is going all reflective with his autobiography out later this year.

  • Sunday 5 August 2012

    THE jig is up for David Cameron.

  • Wednesday 1 August 2012

    The clamour for Olympic gold has reached fever pitch across the nation.

  • Tuesday 31 July 2012

    Bin tryin, bruv, to keep up with modern speak and found these definitions.

  • Monday 30 July 2012

    Graduates have been advised to downgrade the curriculum vitae in the pursuit of employment.

  • Thursday 26 July 2012

    The SNP Government has been taking those brave pills again.

  • Wednesday 25 July 2012

    It is no bad thing when a rosbif wins the Tour de France.

  • Tuesday 24 July 2012

    It is comforting to know that scientists are working away at universities all over the world inventing stuff to make life better for mankind and women as well.

  • Monday 23 July 2012

    G4S, the company responsible for the London Olympics security shambles, is after the contract for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

  • Sunday 22 July 2012

    THE Co-operative Bank is to become a big player on the high street by buying 632 branches from Lloyds TSB.

  • Thursday 19 July 2012

    When it comes to apologies and excuses, young people can learn much from leading figures in public life.

  • Wednesday 18 July 2012

    There has been a welcome backlash against the move by milk cartels to skim even more profit by cutting the price paid to farmers.

  • Tuesday 17 July 2012

    It is a question I am often asked and can seldom answer.

  • Monday 16 July 2012

    Apologies for writing about the parlous state of Scottish football.

  • Sunday 15 July 2012

    BBC Four TV took us on a different voyage with Guts: The Strange And Mysterious World Of The Human Stomach.