Frank Gilfeather: McLeish off target with appeal on football clubs
First, the stark, eye-popping fact: almost 100,000 people in Scotland could lose their jobs by the end of the year as the Covid crisis bites more deeply.
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Frank Gilfeather: An open letter to Ms Sturgeon on curfew for bars and visit ban
Dear First Minister. I feel your pain. Those stiletto heels.
Frank Gilfeather: The Beeb’s obsession with young audience that really isn’t there
SUE Barker has confessed she had to be crow-barred out of the presenter’s seat of A Question of Sport and admitted she would not have gone voluntarily.
Frank Gilfeather: Schoolboy fisticuffs and a fantasy about a Nobel Peace Prize
It has been a peacekeeping week, though not on the scale that would have taxed Kofi Annan.
Frank Gilfeather: Another referendum on independence: Are ye aff yer heid, Nicola?
We must assume Nicola Sturgeon has forgotten to check Experian before setting course towards another independence referendum.
Frank Gilfeather: Nessie and Narcissus meet Bigfoot and bull-in-a-china-shop Boris
Donald Trump Jr, eyes superglued to the autocue, cracked a joke at the Republican Party convention along the lines that his dad’s opponent in November’s US presidential election – Joe Biden – is like the Loch Ness Monster; he pops his head up every now and again to run for president.
Frank Gilfeather: We must act to stop an exodus of talent from the north-east
What faces Aberdeen and the north-east post-Covid-19?
Frank Gilfeather: A+ for incompetence for minister Swinney after exams blunder
When Nicola Sturgeon dished out yellow cards like some kind of political referee, she should have practised on her Education Secretary John Swinney.
Frank Gilfeather: Local lockdown not coming as a surprise after nightlife scenes
Should we have been surprised at the cluster of cases of Covid-19 at an Aberdeen bar?
Frank Gilfeather: Gloves are truly off in BoJo’s campaign to keep Scotland in UK
Protective ones may have been on as Boris Johnson held a crab in each hand for a photo opportunity in Orkney, but the gloves are well and truly off in his campaign to keep Scotland in the UK.
Frank Gilfeather: Tone-deaf divas take me back to my days as a rock ‘n’ roll star
Qualified though I am, there will be no application from me to participate in a new BBC TV show which needs bad singers.
Frank Gilfeather: A piggy-back from Big Jack, lengthy interview and ‘Irish champagne’
In my TV days I once called Jack Charlton with an invitation to be the subject of a lengthy interview on his career as a Leeds United and England defender.
Frank Gilfeather: New road layouts will take some getting used to
It's still the talk of the town. Or should that be the walk of the town?
Frank Gilfeather: Student cyclist rings up the miles, others don’t even have bells
We must assume Kleon Papadimitriou has the backside of a rhino – not in size, of course – but in toughness.
Frank Gilfeather: Community talk a bit transparent when it’s said by big business
I have never fully appreciated the need for pubs, probably because my visits to them have been infrequent; rare, some might say.
Frank Gilfeather: Will council officials catch on and please just leave things alone
It was JD Salinger, in The Catcher In The Rye, who wrote: “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
Frank Gilfeather: Councillors jumping ship means politics without the parties
Has the coronavirus lockdown muddled the minds of local politicians?
Frank Gilfeather: Peter Crouch’s interview insight falling foul
Former England striker Peter Crouch’s assessment of professional footballers won’t go down well in the changing rooms of clubs up and down the country.
Frank Gilfeather: Finance secretary’s pay deal a slap in the face for Covid-19 fighters
Was Kate Forbes blindfolded when she signed off the new pay deal for Scottish Government civil servants?
Frank Gilfeather: McDonald’s madness begs question for pubs
Pictures of lengthy car queues at those temples of fast food, McDonald’s, prompts the question: What will it be like when the pubs reopen?
Frank Gilfeather: Script-perfect video was badly advised
What was STV thinking in posting the pro-Nicola Sturgeon video on social media where a series of script-perfect children praised her for keeping them safe amid the Covid-19 outbreak?
Frank Gilfeather: Power behind throne outs himself as poor performer in briefing
Dear Dom, Being a contrary kind of guy, I refused to join the feeding frenzy over your 250-mile Thelma and Louise road trip from London to County Durham on the basis you put your family first, as I would have done.
Frank Gilfeather: Happy for golfers but not my walks
I have rediscovered the glorious Hazlehead Park during the lockdown, taking evening strolls to blow away the cobwebs gathered during self-isolation.
Frank Gilfeather: Political flannel must not be used to cloak an alarming blunder
There are a number of worrying aspects surrounding the Nike conference in Edinburgh, where Scotland’s coronavirus difficulties began, and why those infected by the delegate who had Covid-19 were not tracked down.
Frank Gilfeather: Grounds for shake of head in disbelief
How sad life must be for those countless consumers who felt the need to queue in their cars for a drive-thru burger or a coffee.
Frank Gilfeather: No place for small clubs if former Aberdeen chief Wyness right
Keith Wyness, the former chief executive at Aberdeen FC and never afraid to speak his mind could be right in predicting that Scottish football might reconstruct itself into just two leagues.
Frank Gilfeather: Jock’s vision rewinds to night Dons bagged their place in history
I was reminded this week of just what a superb analyst Jock Stein was when someone tweeted an interview I did with the ex-Celtic boss on the night in Sweden known to all Aberdeen FC fans quite simply as “Gothenburg”.
Frank Gilfeather: Legs crossed with return of Ryanair
Ryanair, that most beloved of airlines, tell us it plans to reinstate some of its flights in July.
Frank Gilfeather: Is sole goal to get us hooked on drama of stadium plan?
There is only so much excitement you can take as now, with palpitations at full thrust, we have to wait for the last instalment in the current series, with a council decision next Wednesday.
Frank Gilfeather: Still lessons to be learned over violence in our schools
What was that saying about school being the “happiest days of your life”?