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THERE’S NO ESCAPE from it I’m afraid; we all get older. Even Dorian Gray was, in the end, unable to escape the ravages of time.

THE SUSSEXES are coming!  The Sussexes are coming! The Coca-Cola lorry has nothing on this juggernaut of publicity.  Always entertaining and worth every penny, how

NEPOTISM happens in low stake jobs but when celebrities’ offspring get a gig (such as Gordon Ramsay’s girl Tilly on Strictly Come Dancing) it does

GOOD AND BAD were easily spotted in my day.  Nelly Olsen, arch super-villain from Little House on the Prairie was a bad piece of work. 

I HAVE STOPPED my polite Saturday protest outings, where I handed out home-baked cakes to passers-by in my hometown and engaged them in discussion about

Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality – by Helen Joyce Oneworld Publications 2021 320 pages Hardback. ISBN 9780 8615 40495 FOR MANY OF US, the increasingly

VIVIAN LINACRE who has died aged 93 was an optimist’s optimist, an enthusiast’s enthusiast whose glass was always half-full-to-brimming-over with cheerfulness and passion for a

Break-Up: How Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon Went to War – by David Clegg and Kieran Andrews Biteback Publishing 2021 339 pages Hardback. ISBN 10

Book Review: A Difference of Opinion. My Political Journey – by Jim Sillars Birlinn 2021 320pp Paperback. ISBN 9781780276830 IT IS A STRUGGLE to think of anyone

THE INTERVAL at any theatrical performance is usually marked by the fall of a curtain, which is raised again at the start of the next

DATA FROM THE Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows there was a 5.8 per cent rise in divorces between opposite-sex couples in England and Wales

ACROSS the Western World, organisations increasingly seem to be turning against their own constituents. With the fall of Kabul on August 15th 2021, US citizens