Gillian Glover
Gillian Glover
Sunshine and comfort food - can it get better?
Skippers Bistro
Transformation of a princess into something rich and rare
CAN it only have been last week that I despaired of World Cup cultural asphyxiation? How foolish. How utterly lacking in insight about those things which really stir the human pulse. Namely, "a vulgar Royal car boot sale" - as one paper announced yesterday.
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When it comes to selling, nothing beats that other religion: football
IT'S not even day one, and already my World Cup runneth over.
A cardiac crisis as that sense of impending doom keeps recurring
I HOPE you will forgive any inconsistencies in these comments, but I fear I am having a heart attack. This is hardly a subject for levity. I don't happen to have at my numbing fingertips the precise figures for Scotland's annual death toll from myocardial infarction, but I am sure it is far higher than anyone would wish. A statistic I grasped personally when I read the phrase on my father's death certificate.
The vodka girls show just why we are top of the yob league
IT IS becoming increasingly difficult to connect the two faces of Britain - and I'm not referring to John Prescott's off-diary activities. This week saw the UK declared the yob capital of Europe. I can't say I recall any broadcast footage of the competition (will the Italian team now present their menacing hand- gestures and broken bottles? Thank you. The next heat will be seven-a-side brawling).
Were they really happy in 1957?
IT'S hard to locate the crucial feelgood factors of an era which you have observed from a height of 24 inches or so. When Harold Macmillan was delivering his instantly-famous "most of our people have never had it so good" speech at Bedford in 1957, I suspect I was focused on deciphering the Rosetta Stone that proved to be a Farley's rusk.
Comfort food with a side order of Adonis
Eighty Queen Street bar and restaurant
If there's a trophy lover in this affair, it's not 'Marlon' Prescott
THAT strange cicada-like thrum that you hear is the sound of massed keyboards giving simultaneous birth. Millions of words billowing like coral spore on a moon tide; each responding to an irresistible stimulus: the news that John Prescott has admitted a two- year affair with his assistant private secretary, Tracey Temple.
Something Really Stupid for Jordan and Peter
IT MUST be something to do with global warming. I'm sure the "silly season" - that hiatus from serious thought and political comment seemingly enforced by Parliament's very long holidays - is normally scheduled for July and August. But things have been getting so silly this week, I can only assume the calendar has been revised.
Creelers still has me hook, line and sinker
I'd like a little musical accompaniment this week. A solo violin perhaps; or that particularly doleful Vivaldi cello concerto which sighs its way through so many arty films. For this was a poignant moment. The grown-up kind, only available to over-21s.
In a world gone mad, Scotland suddenly seems so much saner
IT MAY be due to the lack of smoke, or the joyous arrival of a brand new tax year, but life in Scotland seems a little bit more sane this week.
When it's good, it's very very good, but...
Alas, poor Bruno.
Bold dentistry cyber-gesture deserves to beat the NHS drill
THIS is the opportunity of a lunchtime. A Saturday lunchtime to be precise, and I'm offering the very best table in one of Scotland's very best restaurants. You will, of course, have to pay your own bill, and provide your own transport - not to mention some suitably entertaining company. But I have taken care of the difficult bit. I have ensured the reservation. Now how much would you like to bid for this inestimable advantage? A fiver? A tenner? More?
Hello again, Dolly, as literary clones are sent in
I HAVE decided to declare this the Week of the Researcher. It was Sir Jeremy Isaacs who alerted me to the unsung marvels of these neglected souls, whose work sustains the on-screen appeal of other talents. "The key to good documentary is research," he insisted. "I started as a researcher, and nobody outside television knew what that meant. They thought it must be market research and we wanted to know whether people preferred Persil to Daz. But we were doing basic journalism."
Gillian Glover
Gamba
Will they pass the £15 challenge? Nope
All bar one
The grand old lady can still put on a show
The Pompadour
Irving gets just what he wanted - his name in the headlines
A WEEK of perplexing polarities. After the discredited British historian David Irving was sentenced to a three-year jail term in Austria as a penalty for denying the Holocaust, the liberal conscience of western Europe has squirmed and agonised.
- Rangers run into the ground as furious HRMC battles to claw back tax
- Broken Rangers: Club signals intention to go into administration
- Scottish independence: David Cameron set to snub Alex Salmond’s separation talks bid
- Rangers blame HMRC for driving club to brink of administration
- Six Nations: Steadman given notice as ruthless Robinson seeks to strengthen team
- Scottish independence: No breakthrough in talks between Alex Salmond and Michael Moore
- Scottish independence: David Cameron set to snub Alex Salmond’s separation talks bid
- Devo-max merely a dodgy back-up plan to save SNP, says Jim Sillars
- The Rumour Mill: Tuesday’s football news and gossip
- The Rumour Mill: Monday’s football news and gossip
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