l Samsung Accidentally Confirms 5G-Ready Galaxy Tab S6 By www.pcmag.com Published On :: 5G tablets are on the way, and Samsung's Galaxy Tab S6 could be repackaged as one of the first. The South Korean company accidentally listed the 5G-ready model on its website. Now, it's only a matter of time before the Galaxy Tab S6 5G goes official. Full Article
l The Latest iPad Mini Is Back at Its Lowest Amazon Price Ever By www.pcmag.com Published On :: The 2019 iPad mini with Wi-Fi and 256GB of storage normally sells for $549, but is available on Amazon right now for just $519. That's the lowest it's ever been on the site. Full Article
l The 2018 Apple iPad Is More Than $200 Off at Walmart By www.pcmag.com Published On :: The sixth-generation 9.7-inch iPad with 128GB of storage and cellular connectivity would normally set you back $559, but is currently marked down to just $349. Full Article
l Latest 11-Inch iPad Pro With Cellular Gets $199 Discount By www.pcmag.com Published On :: The latest iPad Pro featuring 1TB of storage and cellular connectivity is on sale at Amazon for just $1,299.99. Models with less storage and just Wi-Fi are also marked down. Full Article
l Snag the 2019 Apple iPad Air for Just $459 By www.pcmag.com Published On :: The 64GB Wi-Fi model is currently on sale for $459 at Walmart (down from $499.99). Full Article
l Amazon Fire Kids Edition Tablets Are Back at Cyber Monday Prices By www.pcmag.com Published On :: For a limited time, the 7-inch Fire 7 Kids Edition is $40 off while the 8- and 10-inch models are both $50 off. These tablets make a great gift for 3-to-12-year olds. Full Article
l Deals: Roomba 675, Fire HD 8 at Black Friday Prices, More By www.pcmag.com Published On :: The popular Roomba 675 is just $199 today, the 8-inch Amazon Fire HD 8 is only $50, and the 2TB Crucial MX500 2.5-inch SSD is back on sale for $200. Full Article
l Deals: 10.2-Inch iPad, 65-Inch Vizio 4K TV, Amazon Echo Buds By www.pcmag.com Published On :: The 10.2-inch Apple iPad with 128GB of storage is $100 off, a 65-inch Vizio 4K TV is $500 off and includes a $250 Dell gift card, and you can score the first discount on Echo Buds. Full Article
l Dell Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme Tablet By www.pcmag.com Published On :: Dell's Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme Tablet lives up to its name by laughing at drops, splashes, and temperatures that would blow the average slate to smithereens. It's ideal for first responders and factory floors. Full Article
l iPad Air (2019), iPad Mini 5 Join Apple's Refurbished Lineup By www.pcmag.com Published On :: Grab a refurbished third-generation iPad Air or fifth-generation iPad Mini from Apple to save big while getting nearly the same experience new tablets offer. Full Article
l Microsoft Cancels Surface Hub 2X Upgrade Cartridge By www.pcmag.com Published On :: The cartridge was meant to upgrade the processor and GPU in the Surface Hub 2S so as to allow rotation and multiple hubs to work together. Full Article
l Deal Alert: The Latest Apple iPads Are Up to $150 Off By www.pcmag.com Published On :: scrolling through Amazon in the same way has turned up some great deals on iPads. Right now the latest models are available at all-new low prices. Full Article
l The Best Kids' Tablets for 2020 By www.pcmag.com Published On :: Can't get your hands on your own iPad? Kids love tablets, but which is the right one for them? Check out our top picks to keep your kids educated and entertained. Full Article
l The Best Tablets for 2020 By www.pcmag.com Published On :: Tablets are great for playing games, reading, homework, keeping kids entertained in the back seat of the car, and a whole lot more. Whether you're looking for an Android or Apple slate, here's what to consider, along with reviews of the best tablets we've tested. Full Article
l Unspun: the political diary By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 25 May 2019 05:00:00 +0100 Strife of Brian Full Article
l Tom Gordon: Nicola Sturgeon should end her insulting referendum sham By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 25 May 2019 05:00:00 +0100 IT’S strange the different things people took away from Theresa May’s teary goodbye in Downing Street yesterday. Full Article
l FMQs sketch: Pick a policy, blame a Tory By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 18:26:31 +0100 LIKE Nicola Sturgeon, I blame the Tories. Not, like her, for everything everywhere, but for an off-key outing at FMQs. Full Article
l Unspun: The Political diary By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0100 Flat out Full Article
l FMQs sketch: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:56:03 +0100 THE last day of term before recess saw MSPs attempt more jokes than usual at FMQs, some of them even bordering on approaching the mildly funny. Heady days. Full Article
l Unspun: the political diary By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0100 Rocket man Full Article
l Tom Gordon: Citizens Assembly backlash is of the SNP’s making By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 05:00:00 +0100 WELL that didn’t take long. Scotland’s latest experiment in direct democracy was all but killed off this week, barely two months after Nicola Sturgeon announced it. Full Article
l Unspun: the political diary By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 05:00:00 +0100 Obi-Moran Kenobi Full Article
l FMQs sketch: Carlaw Crash By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:21:04 +0100 WHAT a difference a Prime Minister makes. There used to be a time, back before it wasn’t an obstacle to promotion, that Jackson Carlaw was aghast at the idea of a no-deal Brexit. Full Article
l Unspun: the political diary By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:00:00 +0100 Uniformly bad Full Article
l David Torrance: Why Sturgeon's next deputy leader won't change a thing By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 04:00:00 +0000 The American politician John Nance Garner is better remembered for something he said rather than anything he did as Franklin Roosevelt’s vice-president. Full Article
l David Torrance: The SNP's independence proposition resembles another Brexit-like leap into the unknown By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 04:00:00 +0000 In “Painting Nationalism Red?”, an engaging new pamphlet published by Democratic Left Scotland, the journalist Neal Ascherson pays tribute to Tom Nairn as Scotland’s “pre-eminent political intellectual”. Full Article
l David Torrance: 'The SNP don’t really want to make nice with wicked Tories in London' By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 04:00:00 +0000 Shortly before the second general election of 1974, the late John P Mackintosh attempted to explain the rise of the Scottish National Party to a predominantly left-wing (and English) audience in an essay for the New Statesman. Full Article
l David Torrance: How Gibraltar learned to stop fearing Brexit By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 04:00:00 +0000 A few days after a majority of Britons backed Brexit in June 2016, this newspaper reported that Nicola Sturgeon had been in talks with London Mayor Sadiq Khan and the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo. Full Article
l David Torrance: Why playing the history card could be key to Labour's resurgence By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 03:00:00 +0000 The Scottish Labour Party, I think it’s fair to say, hasn’t had a good decade. Full Article
l David Torrance: How Brexit vote has left the SNP making the same historical error By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 04:00:00 +0000 “Scotland”, declared a young Alex Salmond in May 1975, “knows from bitter experience what treatment is in store for a powerless region of a common market.” Full Article
l David Torrance: Standing up for Scotland may be an impossible task for Ruth Davidson By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 05:00:00 +0100 In his new book, “The End of British Party Politics?”, the political scientist Roger Awan-Scully captures the paradox of last year’s general election in Scotland. Full Article
l David Torrance: Sturgeon faces some hard choices at home when selling Scotland abroad By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 04:00:00 +0100 The sight of Scottish ministers boarding flights to far-flung destinations in order to “sell Scotland to the world” has been a familiar one for more than half a century. Full Article
l David Torrance: Airstrikes in Syria are far from ideal, but it’s better than nothing By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 04:00:00 +0100 Today in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister will explain her decision to authorise airstrikes against Syria alongside France and the United States. Full Article
l David Torrance: The rise of political tribalism has little to do with policy and everything to do with identity By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 04:00:00 +0100 A couple of weeks ago, I attended an “in conversation” event with the American sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild at Harvard University. Full Article
l Belle Robertson endures in game of great longevity By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000 Belle Robertson has played just one round of golf this year. She’ll double that tally with another today. Full Article
l Liam Johnston accepts the new reality for tour pros stuck at home By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 10:01:56 +0000 What do professional golfers do in this coronavirus-induced hiatus? Full Article
l Scottish golf courses urged to close as coronavirus takes hold By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 23:40:06 +0000 Scotland’s golf courses have been urged to close in the wake of the Government’s latest measures to combat the coronavirus. Full Article
l Link up with an Open champion aids Clare-Marie Macaulay's golf drive By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000 In this country, where the dank, grim days of winter are as short as a resigned sigh, the onset of some decent, dry spring weather doesn’t half raise the morale. Well, it would if the coronavirus wasn’t lurking all over the parish. Full Article
l If the 2020 golf season is a wipe out, there are things we won't miss By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 05:10:00 +0000 THERE will be many of us who embrace technology with all the ham-fisted ineptitude of a fumbling, muttering old colonel trying to unravel the stubborn, sticky wrapping of a barley sugar. Full Article
l Golf clubs need members 'more than ever' in coronavirus crisis By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000 It wasn’t that long ago that health experts were championing golf as a soothing, morale-boosting haven away from the ravaging rigours of the coronavirus. Full Article
l Back in the Sporting Day: 1970, Billy Casper wins the Masters By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 21:24:06 +0100 It was 50 years ago this week that one of the greatest golfers ever to grace the greens set out on his quest to win his first US Masters championship. Full Article
l Golf and coronavirus: Why Covid-19 may be the final straw for outdated clubs By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 05 Apr 2020 05:10:00 +0100 To say that amateur golf in Scotland has been slow to adapt to change is putting it kindly. But where the rise of the nomads, the Equality Act, the credit crunch and repeated faltering reform efforts have failed, perhaps Covid-19 will finally be the shock that thrusts the sector into a meaningful if seriously belated overhaul. Full Article
l The Open 2020 golf championship cancelled due to coronavirus crisis By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:01:39 +0100 THE Open Championship will not take place at all this year. Full Article
l Golfers warned to respect lockdown restrictions as government confirms no date has been set to reopen courses By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:28:19 +0100 Scottish Golf today revealed that no date has been set for the sport in this country to restart and stressed that lockdown restrictions will remain in place for the foreseeable future. Full Article
l Drink with Gerard Richardson: The magic of malbec By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 05:00:00 +0000 IF you’re under 40, or as I like to call it these days, "pre-arthritis", you probably won’t remember the dark days of malbec when you had a 50-50 chance of opening something that would be as rough as sandpaper. Full Article
l Scotch Whisky Association's Karen Betts: Three reasons Scotch is the 'lifeblood of communities' By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 11:07:57 +0000 Chief executive of the Scotch Whisky Association Karen Betts explains why she thinks the Scottish 'water of life' is so special. Full Article
l Drink with Gerard Richardson: Viva Italia By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 05:00:00 +0000 IF you’re anything like me, these weird alcohol-free January fads are to be avoided so let's raise a glass to a guilt-free month and kick it off with a look at something clean and refreshing to wash the season of excess away. Full Article
l Drink with Gerard Richardson: Rose wines for your Valentine By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 05:00:00 +0000 IT only seems like yesterday that we were in the season to be jolly and, all of a sudden, romance is in the air. Before we know it, we’ll all be rolling eggs down a hill but, in the meantime, I guess we should take a look at rose, the wines of love. Full Article
l Gerard Richardson: South African surprise led to discovery By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 05:00:00 +0000 ONE of the trying things about being a drinks columnist is the number of wines I have to taste in order to write this Shakespearian text for you guys. Products have to be really special to stand out from the crowd and, thankfully, they occasionally still do. Full Article
l Andy Bell: Six Nations, we'll drink to that By www.heraldscotland.com Published On :: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 05:00:00 +0000 With the Six Nations rugby in full flow (come on, Scotland – I’m forever the optimist) now is a great time to look at amazing beverages from all the nations competing. Full Article