... Plain speaking New technology has created a breed of techno-wannabes desperate to join the technology wave, but nervous they will find themselves swamped. Research by British Telecom found only one in five people understand what the Internet or super ...

... Relatively Speaking Absolute Banana Theatre Company, The Rifle Lodge Theatre * * % » Like the best old farces, Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking reveals much about class, personal relationships, indeed even morals. It is a comedy of misunderstandings which ...

... Speaking in tongues Sir, - It was with dismay that I read your recent, misleading report on the Church of Scotland survey regarding the Alpha course. The number of churches which had decided not to run the course because of the section on speaking in ...

... Public speaking Sir, — “Our speaker this evening needs no introduction, so I shall not give him one, ladies and gentlemen, Albert Morris.” Many a lazy chairman has used this indolent get-out, having failed to do the most elementary research into the speaker ...

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... Speaking for the nation IKE everybody, I can'thelp feeling that politics should be given arestat times like this. A moment’s pause in the mostly meaningless chatter of public life seems the least we can do to honour the memory of. someone who was so clearly ...

... Speak up RADIO Scotland is looking for teachers, parents and pupils willing to share their views and experiences of Scottish education. “Making the Grade” aims to look at what is going on in schools and colleges around the country. Forthcoming topics ...

... Speaking of Witch Edited by Claire Prentice It’s got nothing to do with the trainspotter image, it’s just a fashion fact that cagoules will never be trendy. A rather cool spinoff, however, is this mac in a rucksack from Hawkshead, for £l9. Essentially ...

... Haughey to speak at Lenihan rally THE lrisi:\ prime minister, Charles Haughey, will speak at an election- rally for presidential candidate Brian Lenihan this weekend — four days after sacking him from his government. He will be at the main prepoll rally ...

... Double-speak Sir, — | am surprised that WD Murray and S M Marshall are surprised in their recent letters about the NHS. It has never been in doubt that what Glenda Jackson has called, “the obscene purchaserprovider split”, was nothing other than the device ...

... Speaking volumes AFTER the Scottish Office’s information director, Liz Drummond, gave a helping hand to the self-publicity efforts of one of lan Lang’s advisers (cngineeringl his inclusion in Who's Who in Scotland), it seems the selfeffacing official ...

... Double-speak on Sir, - Michael Scott, of Scottish Countryside and Wildlife Link, seeks to J\m&uflom of the “celebrity to the Cairngorm funicular proLect (Letters, 6 June). Of course he would. He was one of those behind the publicity stunt to draw in the ...