Lindsay Razaq: I can relate to elite athletes as I have run a mile, or rather nine months, in their shoes
Dad is crouching down about a metre from the television, his fists poised to punch the air.
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Vicki Butler-Henderson: Why car shows are all about drive
Each summer I have a little list of things I’d love to do, and this year it’s to take the sleeper from England to Scotland, stay in a castle and visit a car show.
The Flying Pigs: ‘Parklets’ perfect places for peched-oot city centre shoppers to rest and recharge
Ron Cluny, Official Council Spokesman
The Flying Pigs: I’d pay good money tae see Sande trying tae perform Next Tae Me next tae Guitar Wifie
View From the Midden – rural affairs with Jock Alexander
The Flying Pigs: Is it OK to ‘Milkshake’ right wing types? The revolution will not be pasteurised!
J Fergus Lamont, arts critic and author of Highway To Helensburgh – On The Road With The Singing Kettle
Martin Gilbert: True entrepreneurs want to do more than simply create wealth
“World progress needs entrepreneurs,” said legendary investor Sir John Templeton, succinctly encapsulating the essence and purpose of capitalism.
Iain Maciver: Eurovision and grape expectations
Mrs X has always loved the Eurovision Song Contest, from the days when you could win by just having an easy-to-remember name like Lulu or Dana or Dana International.
Money men: What does it take to make the rich list?
Think of an entrepreneur and it is likely a squillionaire comes to mind.
Very Rev Susan Brown: Let’s keep being human to human beings
I am now a has-been. I have become an “ex”.
David Knight: Jeremy Kyle Show’s public humiliations a sad reflection of how we treat vulnerable
I only ever dipped into The Jeremy Kyle Show by accident, but I always felt a mixture of morbid fascination – as you do when passing a road crash – and an uneasy feeling about its mix of stage-managed misery and character assassination.
The Flying Pigs: Horror on streets of Aberdeen as sweaty cyclists clog up roads meant for my 4×4
Davinia Smythe-Barratt, ordinary mum
Catherine Deveney: I can’t agree Benjamin’s misogyny is a joke but the law in its current form certainly is
It is always so disconcerting to see a man get on in life when his shoe size is bigger than his IQ.
Ben Dolphin: Excuse me if I’m rambling – but I love it
I was at the Scottish Ramblers Gathering in Melrose last week which is an annual three-day celebration of social walking. That is, walking in a group.
Bishop Anne Dyer: A proper Scottish breakfast for every child
Last week some friends came north to Scotland for a break. They stayed in a bed and breakfast where the highlight for them was the “full Scottish breakfast”.
Alex Bell: We’ve lost the last of the great scholars at a time when flabby thinking is the norm
As the wedding party slipped into the second day, folk were losing their grip on sanity.Twenty-four hours of drinking and dancing and talk had left people’s minds at a midnight setting.
Tom Peterkin: Climate question a balancing act for SNP
When Nicola Sturgeon stood up at the SNP conference and declared a “climate emergency”, she was met with an enthusiastic response from her supporters.
Iain Maciver: Charging through life as we do, we need all the batteries we can get, it would seem
The other day I commanded Mrs X to make me one of my favourite meals – meatballs Italian-style.
Lindsay Razaq: It’s worth remembering that things uniting us are greater than those keeping us apart
One of my favourite stories as a child was LM Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.
Your chance to help Cyclone Idai victims
Spring is usually a time for optimism: another winter endured and thoughts turning to long evenings out and the chance to embrace the elements.
Eleanor Bradford: NHS targets measure hours, days, weeks and not people… This has to change now
With one in 10 visitors to accident and emergency waiting longer than four hours to be seen and nearly one in three of us waiting longer than three months for an appointment with a specialist, what can you do if you have the misfortune to find yourself waiting interminably for treatment?
The Flying Pigs: Is monolith an advanced public telecoms kiosk or a precursor to robot apocalypse?
As a scientist, people are always asking me questions such as “Where do neutrinos come from?”, “How does gravity work?” and “Which colour bin does my cardboard go in?”
Delightful memories of my weekend in Monymusk with the Cheeky Girls
Struan Metcalfe, Conservative (for now) MP for Aberdeenshire North
Eleanor Kay: Funding for land management must begin now
How we support upland land management in future decades is of vital importance to the health of both Scottish agriculture and our rural communities across the country.
The Flying Pigs: Innocent drones can make a real mess – like a water pistol full of beetroot juice
Prof Hector Schlenk, Senior Researcher at the Bogton Institute for Public Engagement with Science:
Diary of a first-time mum: On going back to work and rediscovering something new
I’ve never been particularly good at running – I can still recall my PE teacher bellowing at me to pick up my knees.
Ramsay Jones: We need to talk about what follows Brexit
I am sitting in the autumn sun outside a hostelry in Whitehall.
Neil Skene: Mud, sweat… and tears of joy
Blind comedian Neil Skene on why mud, sweat and tears of joy sum up his last few weeks.
We need to explain to people migration is unavoidable and address the issue directly
We move, as a species.
Modern manners and the selfish society
I enjoy a good political debate.
Why join the scrum at the bar when you can download an app to order your chips? and wine?
There was a day that you could go to the pub, drink your fill, talk utter nonsense about politics and politicians, pretend you were an expert about sport and motorcycle maintenance and burp loudly. That was it. A great night.
Neil Skene: Taxi drivers are fine, only 95% of them are constantly moaning
What a few weeks it’s been, I did the Great Aberdeen Run 10k this year and actually led the race until around the 1-mile mark!
Never mind the scallops – crowdfunding, cow proposals and caffeine-free offspring
Cosmo Ludovic Fawkes Hunte, 13th Earl of Kinmuck