Saudi women now in the driving seat as long-standing ban ends
Saudi women are in the driver’s seat for the first time in their country after the world’s last remaining ban on women driving...
Calls for text messages to remind accused to turn up at court
Text alerts could be used to remind accused people of court appearances in a bid to cut down the number of prisoners held...
East Coast Main Line trains back under public control
Services on the East Coast Main Line have been brought back under public control following the failure of the Virgin Trains East Coast...
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...
