Columnists
EVE MUIRHEAD: Curling ‘comeback’ is off to a winning start in Euro Super Series
August 17 2023
LESLEY HART: From toilet mermaids to human-sized frogs, Edinburgh Festival is a people-watcher’s paradise
August 12 2023
If everyone reads so much, why don’t they learn anything?
August 11 2023
EVE MUIRHEAD: Popularity of World Cycling Championships in Scotland shows how far the sport has come
August 11 2023
RAB DOUGLAS: Dundee United put down a very big marker at Arbroath
August 9 2023
When looking through dictionaries you find an extraordinary number of words for shapes
August 5 2023
EVE MUIRHEAD: Freedom of Perth is a special honour……as is a city centre mural!
August 4 2023
You don’t really speak English, you speak Idiomish
July 28 2023
EVE MUIRHEAD: Why I’m returning to curling competition – just don’t call it a comeback!
July 28 2023
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You can detect a person’s thought processes by listening to their ‘habit’ words
July 22 2023
JIM SPENCE: St Johnstone boss Steven MacLean separating real sufferers from shirkers
July 21 2023
EVE MUIRHEAD: Scale back the Commonwealth Games to give them a chance to survive
July 21 2023
Lesley Hart: ‘I do a five-minute monologue when the fridge door opens’
July 15 2023
If there are words like disgruntled and nonplussed, why aren’t don’t we have gruntled and plussed?
July 15 2023
Verbing, the fine art of demonstrating that you aren’t very clever
July 8 2023
LESLEY HART: I am the cyclist that motorists hate – sorry!
July 1 2023
Justice must be done and seen to be done – newspapers are part of the ‘seen to be done’
July 1 2023
EVE MUIRHEAD: Scottish curling domino fear after Ayr Ice Rink closure blow
June 30 2023
Automatic cars that don’t work when you put them in ‘night’ mode
June 24 2023
EVE MUIRHEAD: Ben Stokes will make cricket fans out of all of us and Bazball is here to stay
June 23 2023
LESLEY HART: Actors are no armchair experts – so I got stuck into Highland Games for new role
June 17 2023
Surely language is the one thing we can discuss in respectful language?
June 16 2023
EVE MUIRHEAD: Djokovic has the most but that doesn’t make him the greatest
June 16 2023
George Orwell’s frightening and limiting Newspeak is being imposed upon us – by ourselves
June 10 2023