Jogger detained for two weeks after accidental US border crossing
A 19-year-old woman who travelled from France to Canada to visit her mother in British Columbia says US officials detained her for two...
Iain Macwhirter: Don’t dignify Trump by violence – turn his Scottish visit into a carnival of contempt
According to Godwin’s Law, revealed online by the American lawyer and author Mike Godwin in 1990, the longer an internet discussion continues, the...
Angela Haggerty: Why women football pundits aren’t part of a feminazi conspiracy to lock men up in cages
FIRST of all, readers, I feel I should apologise. I’m going to talk about football and, as Simon Kelner, the head of a...
Potholes caused £70,000 of damage to emergency service vehicles
A written-off fire service van was among 171 emergency service vehicles damaged in pothole-related accidents since 2015, records show. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16310535.Potholes_caused___70_000_of_damage_to_emergency_service_vehicles/
Future shock: ‘Incorruptible’ corpses of saints are the McDonald’s hamburgers of religious delusion
A FRIEND recently confided that he’d discovered an uneaten McDonald’s meal of indeterminate age under the bed while decontaminating his disgusting hovel. This...
Mindfulness: the World Cup and the delusion of identity
So it’s World Cup time, and as you read those words you will have a reaction to that tournament which may vary from...
“Ordinary people doing extraordinary things”: Meet the secret life of the circus
YESTERDAY this was a patch of grass. Now, somehow, a big top has appeared. It sits proudly, scattered with red stars, guy ropes...
A mother’s plea: “Cystic Fibrosis is still a killer of young people. That’s why we need Orkambi.”
RUTH McEnaney hasn’t yet told her four-year-old son, Ciaran, all that much about the disease she takes her regular medicines for. “I say...
Profile: Principled to the last: John McCain, still speaking up for his beliefs
TO Donald Trump, it was not of the slightest importance that John McCain, when a US naval pilot, had been captured during the...
Boom! The sound of Edinburgh’s housing crisis
THE Edinburgh property market is currently booming. It saw higher levels of growth than any other UK city last year. Currently, according to...
