Do you remember when Prince suddenly took to scrawling “SLAVE” across his cheek? It was a reference to his relationship with his record company, which Prince felt was unfairly restricting his artistic output. At the time I thought it was a bit of a ridiculous and frankly insensitive statement from a man with more freedom [...]
I don’t know if Alex Salmond ever plays at pretending to be a movie star in front of the mirror – let’s face it, we all do at some point – but I imagine he’d aspire to be more of a Sean Connery than a Harrison Ford. But it’s one of Ford’s famous lines that [...]
OK, I admit it. I’m from Edinburgh. And I’m not sorry, all right? I know all the jokes about having had your tea and icy winds and fur coats with no undergarments, and it’s all very funny, but I happen to think Edinburgh’s a rather fine city. However, I do acknowledge that my origins make [...]