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The Herald Scotland
5 days ago
- Politics
- The Herald Scotland
Why it feels like there are more f-words in Shetland
All of a sudden, people were phoning up the broadcaster to say there were 'lots more' f-words in the Sunday night police drama. 'So I went through the compliance forms from the previous series,' Allen said — in remarks first reported by comedy site Chortle — 'and it was the same [amount]. But it's just that this series there was a female detective, and people get worked up more about a woman swearing.' DI Jimmy Perez, played by Douglas Henshall, was replaced by Ashley Jensen as DI Ruth Calder. And that, for some viewers, made all the difference. I thought of that — though without the underlying current of misogyny — when I read a recent blog by former Labour MP Tom Harris. He was in the party for 34 years, joining under Neil Kinnock, becoming a minister under Tony Blair, and staying loyal (if sometimes uneasily) through Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband. It was Jeremy Corbyn who finally broke him. In 2017, he quietly voted Conservative. By 2019, he was publicly backing Boris Johnson — to the horror of some of his family. This year, he is back voting Labour — though it is fair to say his support is hardly enthusiastic. It's weird that this is worth noting, but it is. Parties and, to be fair, we political hacks often forget this: most voters are not like activists. They do not pick a team and stick with it no matter what. They switch. They weigh up who makes sense. They ask: Has this party fixed the thing I care about? Are they listening? Do they seem like they know what they are doing? Are they better than the other lot? While there may not have been more f-words in Shetland, one word I've heard a lot more of recently — especially in relation to Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse- is scunnered. It has been the word of the by-election campaign. How much Thursday's vote tells us about the 2026 Holyrood election is hard to say. It is a snapshot of where people in South Lanarkshire are just now. We should be careful about overanalysing. There has been relatively little scrutiny of the SNP's long record in government — something they will not be able to avoid next year. And by then, Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government will have been in office for two years, making more of their tough choices - the Chancellor's spending review next week might tell us more than anything said in this campaign, about their chances in Holyrood. All that said, if there is one clear message from the battle in South Lanarkshire, and from Tom Harris' blog and from the TV exec in Belfast, it's this: There might not be more f-words. But sometimes, it feel like there are. Right now, voters feel like there are. The party who wins next year, will be the one who convince the scunnered that they're on their side.
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Peter Kay Breaks Silence On Reports About Having 2 Hecklers Thrown Out Of His Show
Peter Kay has responded to reports of a disturbance at his show in Manchester over the weekend. On Saturday night, the stand-up comic performed a show at Manchester's AO Arena, with the comedy site Chortle reporting that the Car Share star had to call on security to eject two people. The first of these, a man, seemingly would not stop shouting Peter's Phoenix Nights catchphrase 'garlic bread?' at him, prompting the comedian to have the houselights pulled up and security remove the offending audience member and his friends. Meanwhile, the second person to be ejected was apparently a woman who had shouted 'we love you' from the crowd, and as she was removed, Peter is widely reported to have compared her to former Emmerdale and Strictly Come Dancing star Lisa Riley. In a statement issued to Good Morning Britain on Tuesday morning, Peter said: 'I didn't realise it was an insult. The lady who was ejected did look remarkably like Lisa Riley, I don't know how that is an insult.' Addressing the incident more broadly, he added: 'There comes a point where dealing with repeated hecklers simply isn't enough.' Lisa Riley herself also shrugged off the debacle, sharing a cryptic Instagram post on Monday which read: 'Keep calm and laugh.' 'It's a laugh, it's funny!!!' she added in the comments. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lisa Riley (@lisajaneriley) Back in 2017, Peter opened up to Jonathan Ross about how his 'garlic bread' catchphrase continues to haunt him. 'Who'd have thought that a food could be a catchphrase?' he pondered. 'It wasn't even a catchphrase! It's just food! 'And I couldn't get it in Morrisons the other week… and my wife was in the car with the children and I was ages, and she said, 'why were you so long?'. I said, 'I couldn't find garlic bread, and I couldn't ask for it because I was mortified to say because they all would have said…' 'I found it, though, at the end of an aisle,' he quipped. David Tennant Names The 1 A-Lister He Accidentally 'P***ed Off' With A Joke At Last Year's Baftas Graham Norton Lands Exciting New Role As Host Of This Intriguing Reality Show Bear Grylls Responds To Controversy Over His Involvement In Russell Brand's Baptism
