It's twenty years next month since Trainspotting the film was launched in Glasgow. Do you remember it? Were you there? When was the first time you saw it? Subversive and insolent, it was ruthlessly marketed as a consumer item: the best of both worlds! Does it tell the...

On my birthday weekend in December 1980 we moved in to our present house. Best move I ever made. Coming from a rural background I was astonished to find myself drawn to this intensely urban area. It's the social, human mix that stays the same. In the countryside we...

Or, as Nicola Sturgeon wittily suggests, St Andy's Day, after Andy Murray's major contribution to Britain's Davis Cup victory yesterday. He says himself, he tends to play his best tennis for a team. OK, so we make the comparison between Nicola's SNP and Jez Corbyn's...