IT all started so well.
They were freedom fighters, and they were protesting for democracy. They were, after all, overthrowing tyrants. Some still are. And so the Arab Spring won the hearts and minds of the entire Western world.
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THIS is the column I thought I'd never write. And it comes with a health warning: if you happen to be a PE teacher and you taught any of my children, reading further may seriously damage your health. Stop now. I mean it...
Because it turns out our youngest has taken it into her head to run the Loch Ness marathon next month.
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IT was one of those ideas that just flashes across your brain and then disappears out the other side. Almost. Because as it was disappearing I thought, "Hang on a minute, that may not be as daft as it sounds," and called it back. And I still think it was one of my best ideas ever.
The year? 1998. We were getting ready to elect the first Scottish Parliament.
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IT'S the Sellafield method. If your "brand" becomes so contaminated that it's never going to recover, just change the name. Thus Windscale became Sellafield. (The site's owners will tell you that Sellafield and Windscale are different parts of the operation, and the sight of thousands of gallons of milk being poured down the drain after the 1957 Windscale fire had nothing at all to do with the apparent name change. Believe that if you will.)
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