Tom Shields On... Archive

  • Sunday 8 January 2012

    AN Edinburgh crematorium is offering online funerals.

  • Thursday 5 January 2012

    The bad news on the shopping front is that John Lewis has just reported "outstanding Christmas sales".

  • Wednesday 4 January 2012

    David Cameron and his Ministry of Bread and Circuses hope to cheer up the populace with the London Olympics and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

  • Tuesday 3 January 2012

    Patients should be asked about their diet, smoking and drinking habits every time they see a health professional.

  • Monday 2 January 2012

    The Department of Festive Affairs has warned that midwinter celebrations as we know them in Britain are no longer sustainable.

  • Thursday 29 December 2011

    This is a delayed appreciation of the life of Jimmy Duncan, Govan boy and industrialist.

  • Wednesday 28 December 2011

    This topic should be in another of the columns that hang about this bit of the Herald.

  • Tuesday 27 December 2011

    The Department of Festive Affairs has issued its annual report on Christmas.

  • Monday 26 December 2011

    The Scottish Department of Festive Affairs (DFA) has urged revellers to invoke the spirit of Sir Harry Lauder and keep right on to the end of the road.

  • Thursday 22 December 2011

    The topic for today was to be the war of words between Britain and France on the euro front.

  • Thursday 22 December 2011

    The Scottish Premier League has decreed an orderly return to standing at football grounds.

  • Tuesday 20 December 2011

    The top-heavy Ministry of Defence is to axe 700 senior posts, including rear admirals, major generals, and air vice-marshals.

  • Sunday 18 December 2011

    I HOPE to celebrate the Queen's diamond jubilee by being out of the country for as much of the year as possible.

  • Thursday 15 December 2011

    THE interminable Christmas TV adverts for perfumes are entertaining in a gruesome kinda way.

  • Wednesday 14 December 2011

    I've been awfy worried about the euro.

  • Tuesday 13 December 2011

    Life is too short to read the 452-page report by the Financial Services Authority into how the Royal Bank of Scotland was brought to its knees.

  • Monday 12 December 2011

    I DO not understand the economics of the euro crisis.

  • Sunday 11 December 2011

    HURRICANE Friedhelm would have been a small footnote in meteorological history.

  • Thursday 8 December 2011

    SCIENTISTS have been exploring the deepest part of the world's oceans in greater detail than ever before.

  • Wednesday 7 December 2011

    I OFTEN write in praise of Lidl.

  • Tuesday 6 December 2011

    THE UK intelligence agency has been using an online code-cracking competition to attract recruits.

  • Monday 5 December 2011

    Edinburgh's giant pandas have been in the city less than a day but there's trouble already.

  • Sunday 4 December 2011

    THE Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, has spent £37,000 of your money and mine having his portrait done and getting himself a coat of arms.

  • Friday 2 December 2011

    I WRITE to you today from in front of the oven.

  • Thursday 1 December 2011

    The Northern Lights of old Aberdeen mean sweet FA to me.

  • Wednesday 30 November 2011

    Shocking revelations at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday as a former Daily Star reporter claims some tabloid newspapers are not "truth-seeking" but "impact-driven".

  • Tuesday 29 November 2011

    It is widely accepted that us Scots don't do enough to celebrate St Andrew's Day.

  • Monday 28 November 2011

    You will have read that Facebook has shrunk the world so much the degree of separation has been cut dramatically.

  • Sunday 27 November 2011

    SCIENTISTS have compiled a list of planets most likely to sustain life as we know it.

  • Thursday 24 November 2011

    The Coalition plans to reduce workers' rights and make it easier for employers to sack staff has been the subject of frantic calls to our advice helpline: