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And, to be fair, not just the politicians are at fault. Most of the population can't be even bothered to work out what should go in their recycle bin.

And here we see how disinformation spreads, so that a toilet roll shortage in a district in China spreads to Australia and then worldwide. The ibuprofen scare seems to have originated with French doctors pointing out that ibuprofen does nothing to reduce fever, unlike paracetamol, the other...

Plenty of people are asking the questions, but there is no-one who can provide answers at the moment. The crisis is not about saving the NHS but about preventing economic collapse in the short term so that we can try and fix it in the long term. I expect to see VAT rise to at least 25% in April...

Weeell, if we're going down that road, "An Gearasdan" does appear on the station name signs. "Inverlochy" (and come to that "Maryburgh") never has.

Some posters in a railway forum that I read have a habit of referring to Fort William as "Fort Bill". I have never come across the term used by anyone else, despite long familiarity with the place. (North Americans do insist on calling it "Fort Williams", however)

Not exactly. Up until the timetable was reconfigured for the Sprinters (1988?), the sleepers formed part of the 3 normal Glasgow-Fort William services, conveyed on the 0600 from Queen Street and 1600 from Mallaig. The sleepers and the day coach were attached or detached at Fort William and other...

You obviously haven't spent any time eavesdropping on British tourists abroad marvelling/complaining about how things are done differently from at home. Anyone working in the tourist industry of any country will be able to testify that most people expect their own culture to be the default way...

You are correct that Shiel Buses do not normally carry dogs. However, the 1010 ex-Mallaig Rail Replacement Bus recently accepted a large husky dog boarding at Morar without any discussion. It's possible that their contract with Scotrail requires this.

I got off the sleeper at Dalmuir once to go into Queen Street and catch the airport bus for an early morning flight.

Unfortunately, appears not to be the case: https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/wild-boar-roaming-free-in-scotland-destroying-crops-1-4251345

The nearest sheep are at Lochailort, several miles away. I have not seen sheep anywhere in this area in my lifetime. They are increasingly rare elsewhere as it's more and more difficult not to lose money by keeping them. Judging by the number of visitors who stop in the middle of the road to...

Yes, that was them. Only company at the time to fly Glasgow/Edinburgh - Barcelona. Saved us quite a bit in air passenger duty, as we had 5 seats to pay for at that point in our lives.

About 10 years ago I travelled on a scheduled summer service Glasgow-Edinburgh-Barcelona. We were scarcely off the ground before we landed at Edinburgh where we sat for ages while they solved some problem packing in airfreight. I can't remember the name of the company, think it had "Globe" or...

Level crossings with gates (operated by the secondman and guard). I remember this was routine at Morar for 15 years or so from about 1970 on. Did it happen elsewhere?

At least the station announcers at Queen Street pronounce Oban correctly, if my memory serves me right. I have never heard them pronounce Mallaig as MALLaig, always as Ma LAIG

Much as I would like to see this happen, I do wish people would stop repeating this: it is so obviously untrue to anyone familiar with the population and politics of Northern Ireland and undermines the credibility of anything else that the writer has to say. Northern Ireland has other work...

Yet another crime put down to the villanous EU, despite the fact that passports of other EU countries have multiple forms of describing the holders, which may or may not describe them as a citizen: indeed the passports of citizens of the most populous country of the EU tell us only that "The...

A high tide and a westerly gale also used to result in the turntable well receiving large quantities of seawater and debris. The current carpark has the same problem in spite of being a foot or two little higher above the sea. Most islanders who leave their cars there have learned to leave them...

I should imagine that interview will be used as a training medium by all political parties. Sadly, however, I suspect that many of the people who are exulting at Miss Olney's humiliating debut in dealing with the media are people who complain about professional politicians and how few ordinary...

And that figure is a snapshot. Most people who work abroad do return home at some point. I worked in Spain myself for 5 years during the 1980s when job opportunities of any kind near my home were non-existent. Of about 30 other UK citizens who I can remember who were also working there, I am...