Smash Hit

Top brass are failing our Top Guns

The tragic Puma helicopter crash shows how easy it is to buy into a pervasive Hollywood myth

Is Edward Erin the cad most men secretly admire?

The doctor who poisoned his mistress is more than just a throwback to unenlightened times

I couldn’t pay £41,000 back if I worked till I was 90

I bet ministers bump along the bottom too

Biter is bit. Serves Lady Scotland right

Petty rules have been tripping up millions of law-abiding people for years. Now they can snigger

We can count the cost of doing nothing

We know that childhood misery has its price. But now even the bean-counters can see the case for change is irresistible

Ten weeks of rain is a disaster for the North

The weather on the rainy, rainy banks of Loch Lomond is a sign of worse to come

We reject the Baby Ps who survive

Our system for helping neglected children is too short-term, too wishy-washy and too cheapskate

Girls should not have to fear the world outside

The cases of Jaycee Lee Dugard and Laura Dekker will only reinforce the view that we should lock up our daughters

Right to rape: is that what we're fighting for?

Karzai's collusion with conservatives is pragmatism over ideology, but we may have to live with it for now

Hang the sell-by date: just eat and enjoy

The food industry’s appetite for sales, shrink wraps and life on the beach

I rode to glory ... and now I can prove it

Of all the new service industries, nothing can beat vanity sports photography

I'll have the scallops. Oh, did you hear about those fishermen?

The price paid for the shellfish in restaurants is astronomical. But the men who risk death to bring them in are paid a pittance

Golf is killing itself through snobbery

While the rest of the world embraces equality, golf is being left behind, betrayed by those who control it

They chose a good death. Let's applaud them

The conductor and his wife of 54 years knew that ill health meant the end was coming and took a brave private decision

After the frolics comes the awful truth

Truth be told, can anyone face another single word about 18-year-old boys dying in Afghanistan?

Kick the children out: it’s their only hope

If we let students stay at home, we are guaranteeing the end of the human race within a few generations

Today's victim, tomorrow's feral brat

We emote for the Baby Ps of this world, but if they grow up and go to school, we ostracise them

Is lack of vitamin D linked to swine flu?

Scotland has a disproportionately high number of swine flu cases. There could be a simple reason

Swine flu is not entertainment

We all scoffed. Now the signs are that it's not going away