Lindsay Razaq: Planning for a tomorrow based on today is a dangerous trap for children in a fast-moving world
“Look at all these toys mummy!”
Columnists
Ron Ferguson: Fathoming out when to hold open a door is no joke for the modern man
Here is a joke. Whether you find it funny or not will depend on where you’re coming from.
David Knight: No one-size-fits-all solution for airlines but a tailor-made wedding suit is just the ticket
I’ve been struggling with travel plans for a wedding in a few months – I can’t miss it, I’m uncle of the bride after all.
Susan Brown: Even after Friday, a man’s a man for a’ that
By the end of this week, we as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will no longer be members of the European Union.
The Flying Pigs: The rights and wrongs of Sussexit
Jimmy Hollywood, Sandilands most eligible bachelor.
Catherine Deveney: Prostitute or exploited child? Our language betrays Dickensian attitudes to victimhood
Like all of us, 15-year-old Victoria Agoglia had dreams.
Ben Dolphin: Climate change is beginning to get chilling
I encountered a new word last week, “solastalgia”, and when I looked it up I quickly realised I’d found the perfect word to explain the general malaise I’ve been feeling all winter.
Anne Dyer: A little more conversation, a little less distraction please
Last week I was on the train to Glasgow, and sitting across the aisle from me were four friends.
Iain Maciver: The taxman cometh – always at the wrong time of the year
If you have a cushy nine-to-five job you will not understand the anguish that the rest of us go through at this time of year.
Dan O’Donoghue: Labour had as much hope as Jeremy Corbyn did ‘catching a train to Orkney’
In the days leading up to last year's general election the Westminster gossip mill spewed out a story that, while silly, was very telling.
Campbell Gunn: It may be people, not politicians, who can unlock the door to independence
We all expected it and now it is official. Boris Johnson has rejected Nicola Sturgeon’s request for a Section 30 Order giving her the power to hold another referendum on Scottish independence.
Lindsay Razaq: Maya has helped me to realise I need to turn over a new leaf in terms of reading
One of the many peculiar things I’ve observed since becoming a parent is how sometimes the harder you try, the less grateful your child can be.
Eleanor Bradford: The sooner we ban children having mobile phones at school the better
If there was one simple thing which could be done in schools to improve young people’s social skills, reduce bullying and mental health problems and, above all, to improve exam performance you would expect schools to embrace it, right?
David Knight: I went to a cinema screening for lonely people – and I was the only one there
Something struck me as I watched the terrifying climactic scenes in Oscar-nominated film Jojo Rabbit on a big cinema screen in Aberdeen.
The Flying Pigs: Did the mannie from McKay’s of Queen Street have a wormhole to the 1970s in his stock room?
Ron Cluny, Official Council Spokesman
Jim Hunter: Is farming one of those ‘indispensable’ British industries that will never disappear – just like coal mining?
Might we about to see the emergence of a countryside where there’s little in the way of farming?
Catherine Deveney: Like poppies, the miracle of reconciliation can follow the most heartbreaking loss
I find myself wondering what the very first words were that Georges Salines and Azdyne Amimour spoke to one another when they first met in a café in the Bastille area of Paris.
Alex Bell: As two sides engage in the constitutional tango, the question is, which one is blind?
Al Pacino has been nominated for an Oscar for his turn as Jimmy Hoffa in the film The Irishman.
Iain Maciver: There’s something fishy about the whole idea of part-time royals
It’s when we have really rough weather like this that I always think of the song The Road to Dundee that Calum Kennedy sang in the 1950s and many others have since - but not so well.
James Millar: Listening to the tune the public is singing is how politicians will glimpse the true face behind the mask
Since former Home Secretary Alan Johnson was revealed to be a participant in ITV’s Saturday night madhouse The Masked Singer, the Westminster set has been forced to pay attention to this utterly bizarre show.
Lindsay Razaq: When it comes to parental love, sharing does not have to mean dividing
“Hello mummy,” giggles a muffled voice behind me.
Len Ironside: Labour must learn the lessons of history or give up on regaining power
Labour faces a crucial test as it looks for a new leader after such a crushing general election defeat - the worst since 1935: will it learn the lessons of the past?
David Knight: I am nothing but a weirdo misfit – put me in charge of the country
I might apply for a job with Dominic Cummings - chief mover and shaker behind Boris Johnson - who is creating a phalanx of free thinkers within 10 Downing Street.
The Flying Pigs: They will still need lookin’ efter if stepping back, ’cos ye can easy tak a heider daen’ ’at
Tanya Souter, Lifestyle Correspondent
Kathleen Robertson: All in the mind – why new year’s resolutions are better for being a little self-centred
New Year’s resolutions - we all make them and gradually we fall off the proverbial wagon.
Chris Deerin: Fancy that, being a grown-up Artful Dodger with Hasidic leanings and a Sex Pistols fixation is rather fun after all
I have friends who leap, screeching with joy, whenever the opportunity to don fancy dress presents itself.
Iain Maciver: A rude awakening for Hollywood’s A-list starts the year as it looks like going on
Despite this awful weather, I hope you all had a good new year because I have a feeling it’s going to be a rude one.
Lindsay Razaq: While many people think of 13 as unlucky I’ve always counted it worthy of celebration
I like the number 13. Not because I relish putting superstitions to the test, although my Christmas tree is still up post-Twelfth Night for the second year in a row (cut me some slack, we only got back from visiting relatives in Newcastle on Sunday afternoon).
Miles Mack: Homeopathic medicine… The jury is still out
As a young child I remember being taken to see a kindly, grey-haired doctor called Dr McGowan to be treated for asthma.
David Knight: Teachers seem like Spitfire pilots thrown into the new Battle of Britain in schools
Even the numbskulls in our mathematics class knew the problem we were facing was going to end badly.
The Flying Pigs: Right royally entertained by a free panto trip and folks’ rough as onything picters
Kevin Cash – money-saving expert and king of the grips
Catherine Deveney: There is a comfort in marking a chapter of the old year as it heralds a start of the new
Do you believe in Richard Dawkins?