RUTH Davidson discussed her faith this week with Dr Lorna Hood, the former moderator of the Church of Scotland. Their chat was part of a Kirk campaign called "Take a Pew" designed to reach out to people beyond its existing, and dwindling congregations.

It turns out the pew where they chatted is being taken all round Scotland, from Holyrood to Glencoe, the Kelpies to Burns country. The most ambitious location is the summit of Ben Nevis. "How will you get it there?" a Kirk official was asked. "Divine intervention?" No, he replied. "We’re asking the MoD to help."

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THE great Scots broadcaster James Naughtie exposed the Scottish irony of the In-Out debate earlier this week when he interviewed a Nationalist Remainer, who did not believe George Osborne's Project Fear prognostications in the 2014 referendum but absolutely believes them in the 2016 one and a Unionist Brexiter, who believed the chancellor's prophecies of doom two years ago, but now, in this In-Out poll, thinks they're just fearmongering nonsense. How times change.

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THE majority of the UK's youngsters, it's fair to say, were not spending last night glued to Sky News to witness Michael Gove's encounter with Faisal Islam and a studio audience of sceptical voters.

So full marks to Tinder - the dating platform which invites users to casually 'swipe' their way through potential suitors making judgements solely on looks - for attempting to engage the most elusive demographic in politics.

Users of the app, which has previously been blamed for a rise in rates of sexually transmitted diseases, are now greeted with a 'true or false' referendum survey presenting singles with a series of claims made by both campaigns and asking them swipe 'left for false, true for fiction'.

Their reward for completing the survey? A link to register to vote. With the young far more likely to be pro-EU, could it prove Remain's secret weapon?

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CLARE Haughey, the new SNP MSP for Rutherglen, is not short of left wing credentials.

A Labour member before making the switch to the Nats, she rose through the ranks of trade union Unison and used her maiden speech at Holyrood to speak fondly of coal mines and steel works, even throwing in an attack on Maggie Thatcher for good measure.

But there are whispers at Holyrood that Haughey has an episode in her lefty past that she would rather forget. A vicious rumour is doing the rounds that that once upon a time, she was the owner of a Tommy Sheridan calendar, depicting the perma-tanned perjurer in a different pose for every month.