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Glasgow students get opportunity of lifetime to play with indie rockband The Fratellis for The Late Late Show Musical students from the University of Glasgow were given a taste of showbiz after being asked to play alongside the Fratellis for The Late Late Show with James Cordon. Scottish indie band The Fratellis, who first emerged on the scene in 2006, appeared on the show last night to promote their newest album Half Drunk Under a Full Moon. And following an interview between Cordon and the group s frontman Jon Fratelli, the Scottish trio performed alongside a full brass section - featuring 13 keen musicians from the University of Glasgow s Music Club (GUMC), as well as 11 from Glasgow-based ensemble
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Glasgow students get opportunity of lifetime to play with indie rockband The Fratellis for The Late Late Show Musical students from the University of Glasgow were given a taste of showbiz after being asked to play alongside the Fratellis for The Late Late Show with James Cordon. Scottish indie band The Fratellis, who first emerged on the scene in 2006, appeared on the show last night to promote their newest album Half Drunk Under a Full Moon. And following an interview between Cordon and the group s frontman Jon Fratelli, the Scottish trio performed alongside a full brass section - featuring 13 keen musicians from the University of Glasgow s Music Club (GUMC), as well as 11 from Glasgow-based ensemble
Would the loss of a by-election in a former Labour heartland mean bye-bye for Sir Keir Starmer? IT looks like the Hartlepool by-election in Labour’s “heartland”, according to the latest opinion poll, is going to go Tory! What then for Sir Keir and his Unionist branch party up here? It seems it is bye-bye for Sir Keir, who has been fading ever since his election as leader of English Labour. As the branch up here dream on about federalism under the Union Jack, they are left to fantasise about the return of a Labour government at Westminster. It looks like the “red wall” is being added to and Tory-dom in England is gaining.
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Douglas Ross, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, is seen on a Hawkeye vehicle during a visit to Thales Optronics MY military correspondent was unimpressed: “I see the Tories have gone from Thatcher as prime minister commanding a Chieftain tank, to Ruth Davidson on a piece of self-propelled artillery they’d hired for an hour, to Douglas Ross on an armoured car. Their military stunts can’t fall much lower.” Karl Marx suggested history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. I’m not sure what he’d make of round three. From Mrs Thatcher’s cold assault stormtrooper costume, the arc of Scottish Tory history has somehow bent towards a vision of David Brent having a mid-life crisis on the bonnet of a Land Rover at a Covid-compliant away-day.
THE BBC’s new director-general Tim Davie last week summarily cancelled the The Mash Report, a programme which satirises the week’s news. As The Mash Report has been running regularly since 2017, one must suppose it generated sufficient audience interest on BBC Two to warrant broadcasting it.However, Mr Davie’s motivation in dropping the show was not professional but political. According to The Sun newspaper, “sources close” to Davie – doubtless Davie himself – told them that the BBC’s entire satire output (including Have I Got News for You) required radical overhaul as it was too biased against the Tories and Brexit.