THE slogan 'take a fresh look' is plastered all over Scottish Labour's conference in Aberdeen and senior politicians shoe-horned it into their speeches.

If it sounded familiar, it's because it's been widely used by Dominoes Pizza in their advertising campaigns across the globe.

So did the company endorse Scottish Labour 'borrowing' their catchphrase? Did it fear a backlash from the mob that condemns the party as 'Red Tories' at every opportunity?

"We would like to reply with 'no comment''' came the extremely sensible response from a Dominoes spokeswoman, after the questions were put to her by Unspun.

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JEREMY Corbyn repeatedly quoted Keir Hardie on the "sunshine of socialism" in his address to Scottish Labour conference yesterday, as if it was an eternal truth.

Alas, the 100-year-old soundbite was from a Hardie speech which also praised "discoverers" who could blow things up eight miles away through an "Invisible medium", not to mention the "healing" power of radium (this was before it killed Marie Curie).

Will history be as kind to the views of Mystic Jez, we wonder?

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SAY a prayer for Caroline Spelman. The Tory MP has been made the Church of England’s "Second Estates Commissioner", meaning she has to answer questions on it in parliament.

The job seems a little sleepy, judging by an email she sent in error to an SNP MP last week.

For in it she listed seven "suggested questions" other MPs might want to pose her. Topics included religious freedom, climate change, the General Synod and metal theft. Curiously, tax credit cuts, the hobbyhorse of bishops everywhere, didn’t feature.

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There are strict rules about when ministers must remain in the Commons chamber. Unless, it appears, they are wanted on the BBC or Sky.

During the Commons debate on steel on Wednesday Labour MP Kevan Jones raised a point of order with one of the Deputy Speakers, who was in the chair.

He told her: "I note that the Secretary of State has now left the Chamber. I might be an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy, but I thought there was a convention that a speaker should stay for at least the next two contributions before leaving the Chamber?"

Deputy Speaker Natascha Engel told him he was "absolutely right". However, she added, the minister has told her he "has popped out to do some media and is coming straight back again".

So that’s ok then.