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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thenational.scot | Caitlin Logan
IT would be difficult, in light of the ubiquitousness of all things “Squid Game”, to not have heard of the hit South Korean Netflix series by now. The second season, released on Boxing Day, has brand partnerships with Just Eat, Domino’s, and even Johnnie Walker. Fans can buy Squid Game x Puma Trainers, Squid Game crocs, and licensed merchandise from a range of major retailers including Primark and ASOS, and HMV.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
thenational.scot | Caitlin Logan
It has never been more important to challenge narratives that we believe are unfair or inaccurate I’M afraid I will have to invoice Russell Findlay, the newly elected leader of the Scottish Conservatives, for my irony meter because it broke the second I read the headline of an interview with Holyrood magazine this week: “I’m a Tory because it’s the anti-establishment party.” Matters only worsened as I read on to the MSP’s now widely reported remarks accusing the SNP of “unpleasant hostility”...
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thenational.scot | Caitlin Logan
I DEBATED with myself over whether writing this column was a good idea. Knowing how baseless and malicious the ongoing attacks on LGBT organisations are, part of me still clings to the idea that they ought not to be dignified with a response. Unfortunately, though, we’ve passed the point where concerted efforts to undermine the reputations of LGBT charities can be safely ignored as the hobby of a bizarre bunch of internet addicts.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thenational.scot | Caitlin Logan
Alex Cole- Hamilton is demanding a high price for LibDem support of the Scottish budget (Image: PA) THERE are moments when what we might call the “theatre of politics” becomes especially jarring. When the set pieces and the scripts being followed by politicians, journalists and commentators become too conspicuous to ignore, too farcical to suspend our disbelief any longer.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
thenational.scot | Caitlin Logan
Prime Minister Keir Starmer with Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves WHEN the exit polls were announced on the night of July 4, I felt hollow. By that point, it wasn’t a surprise to see the map turn red, but after everything we’d heard from Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, the knowledge that the voice of the opposition in Scotland would be so small was deflating. Still, I felt I should be celebrating the fact that the Tories were out.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
theurbanlist.com | Caitlin Logan
So you're looking for somewhere to eat in Ōtautahi Christchurch? The Garden City is enough lucky to have so many choice restaurants popping up all over the place that it can be hard to keep track, so let Urban List show you where it's at with our handy alphabetical list. From cheap eats to something a little fancier, we have you absolutely covered with 50 of the best restaurants in Christchurch, so let's dive in.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
thenational.scot | Caitlin Logan
As a longtime critic of John Mason, you might expect me to be celebrating. Somehow, I don’t quite feel like it YOU might have seen the popular meme format based on a scene from the comedy series Community, where the character Britta – a white woman – says: “I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty.” “You can excuse racism?” comes the shocked reply from Shirley, a Black woman. Well, it seems the SNP are a living, breathing meme.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
thenational.scot | Caitlin Logan
Caitlin Logan discusses the latest book from Jacqueline Wilson's (Image: James Jordan) WHEN I first devoured Jacqueline Wilson’s Girls series, starring teenage best friends Ellie, Magda, and Nadine, I was technically too young to be reading them – which made them all the more thrilling. Lust. Drugs. Bad boys. Eating disorders. Grief. Sex. Seriously bad boys. Everything a tween girl could need to feel like she was reading a “grown-up book” and learn some important lessons along the way.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
thenational.scot | Caitlin Logan
Owning a house feels like a distant prospect for many young people who are renting long-term (Image: Getty) "IN our city we don’t pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.” So went an excerpt from a controversial World Economic Forum (WEF) think-piece, published in 2016, which presented a prediction of how our lives might look in the year 2030.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
thenational.scot | Caitlin Logan
Caitlin Logan recalls her experience of being in an abusive relationship (Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images). TURNING 17, I felt like the world was mine. For the first time in my teenage years, I had a group of friends I could be myself with and who seemed to celebrate me for all of my quirks. Looking in the mirror and into the future, I felt an optimism that was new and strange to me. Best of all, I had a girlfriend.
