Aye but in Hogmanay we make a real party out of the 31st and insist on the 2nd of January also being a public holiday. So we need a broad emotional canvass in order to last 3 days of celebration and recovery.

Are pine berries the things that look like pale pink strawberries?

The original archaeologists aren’t proposing that one house at Pompeii can be extrapolated out to show us the diets of all servi, but media needs to be very careful with how they word things. Editors and not journalists tend to control headlines. So just try a bit more nuance next time! Like this:

So many wee things in there regardless of intent. Gotta hope that we help pull the average the right way even if we're not perfect I suppose.

It's insidious. Studies of teachers regularly show that for the majority (male or female) when they think they allow equal contributions, it's the boys who speak more, and when they were 50/50 they think they let the girls speak more.

Actually what am I talking about? It's me. I am Scotland's Zohran Mamdani. As ever my extraordinary modesty has held me back

I've always had this with realistic animals in prehistoric art and the awful ones you see in medieval work. Assume some is stylistic and some comes down to only people from a certain background being able to do art, loads of potentially good artists with no lasting outlet.