The Mummy Diaries – Mummy’s worst week

I KNOW in my previous blogs that I’ve joked about having ‘the worst week ever!’ and maybe at the time, it seemed that way. But believe me when I tell you that this time, I ...

ThinkMovies: Bill & Ted face the music

FRIENDS, I’m sorry to say that this review will require somewhat of an abnegation of my responsibilities as ThinkScotland’s resident film critic. As I am given to understand it, my role at this publication is ...

Musings of a Real Tank Commander – Part 18 Defending the Green line from Turks, Greeks and our own rascals

HALFWAY THROUGH our 6 month tour to Cyprus we moved up to the UN Green Line and put on our blue berets – we were UN soldiers now! By way of background, the United Nations ...

The Mummy Diaries – Lily bites back!

I DON’T KNOW about the rest of you but after the first week back at playschool last week, I was exhausted, never mind the kids! 

I don’t know if it was the ...

ThinkMovies: The New Mutants

The New Mutants didn’t have an easy journey to cinemas. Each and every stage of development and production faced setbacks, revisions, and a raft of other issues and complications that such an innocent little flick really ...

The Mummy Diaries – Life after Lockdown sends me gaga

IT’S BEEN a while peeps! We decided to take some time out from blogging for a bit. Instead of frying everyone’s head with yet another blog about baking cakes with the kids and becoming borderline ...

ThinkMovies: TENET

FRIENDS, I can’t tell you how much I’ve been looking forward to writing this column. I like to think I made a decent stab at getting the point across in my Why I Miss ...

Musings of a REAL Tank Commander – Part 17 Dicking about in Dhekelia with mezes & brandy sours

WHEN I REJOINED 4th Tonks in early 1989 it was still in Osnabruck. I had visited the Regiment once, I think, over the past four years and it was less familiar to me although only some ...

When Scots enslaved fellow Scots

LAST YEAR saw a number of developments highlighting an apparent renewed interest in history among my fellow Scots. I stress apparent because what was really revealed was the realisation by Scottish political leaders that history ...

Musings of a REAL Tank Commander – Part 16, My thatched cottage, Steam Beer & TE Lawrence's Grave

AFTER TWO YEARS at Staff College I was given my first staff job at the Headquarters of the Director of the Royal Armoured Corps (HQDRAC) in Bovington Camp, Dorset. I had no idea what ...

Musings of a REAL Tank Commander – Part 15 Fergie’s Dad, Thrusters and Owl Pie

THE #BARITWE* had gone back to (West) Germany and I was on my own. I had been accepted for the Army Staff College, which was quite a big deal actually. It is a watershed ...

Image without substance: Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP

An essay about Scotland's First Minister and her approach to politics.