Pedants’ Corner

Call us nitpickers if you like, but we pounced with delight on a noteworthy mixed metaphor from Tom Gordon of the Herald on the Council elections. He wrote on Saturday, ‘If Labour hold on, despite all their problems, it will be excruciating for the SNP, who have thrown the kitchen sink at Glasgow knowing it could be a springboard to independence.’ The kitchen sink bouncing round in George Square is an image to treasure.