Page 6 - Malcolm Boyd News Today

Feeling flushed

Maritime moany-face

Gym jam

Busy boys

Definitely mibbe

Dan Georgakas's personal recollections of radicals in Detroit and the people who formed the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.

PREMIUM Eric Begbie spotted this car on a ferry from Wellington to Picton in New Zealand. He concludes that the fame of a mighty Scottish football club may now have stretched beyond the boundaries of a certain Lothian city. Unfortunate encounter THE things people do for entertainment. Reader Pam Thompson once arranged an amusing afternoon with some gal pals. The plan was to drop in at a wine bar, followed by a visit to a local psychic. When the gang arrived at the fortune teller’s house o...

Horse sense nonsense WE hear that football fans on the other side of Hadrian’s Wall have suddenly, and quite inexplicably, grown bored of discussing the Euros. Now they just want to move on. Discuss other topics. Any topics. Topics that have nothing to do with chaps called Harry or Raheem or Marcus. Meanwhile, the Diary hasn’t quite exhausted the subject of kickyball. Australia-based Scottish comedian David Callan tells us that the rather skewed BBC-style commentary that invariably ...

Downer days

After more than four hours underneath the big top outside the Tisbury school, residents approved a more than $30 million operating budget, $5 million in roadway improvements, and a number of changes to planning, practice, and personnel that prepare the town for the future. Back-to-back annual and special town meetings made for a marathon day, […]