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Scottish Sun
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Glasto fans stunned as Doctor Who legend joins Franz Ferdinand on stage in wild cameo
GLASTONBURY is in full swing and with it comes a whole heap of surprises. In fact there have been so many twists and turns, revellers were left with their jaws dropped when a Doctor Who legend joined Franz Ferdinand on stage for a wild cameo. Advertisement 7 Franz Ferdinand gave fans a treat when they introduced their surprise Glastonbury guest Credit: AFP 7 Fans went wild when Peter Capaldi strutted onto the stage Credit: BBC 7 The Time Lord joined the band for their set on the Other Stage Credit: BBC 7 Peter then joined the band to sing one of their very famous songs Credit: BBC Yesterday, the noughties indie band took to the Other Stage for a set which included all of their greatest hits. As revellers sang along to their top tunes in the sweltering heat, they then got a welcome surprise. Poking fun at all the talk about "surprise sets" at Glastonbury, lead singer Alex Kaparanos said: 'One of the things I love about Glastonbury is the rumours. You know, all the gossip that goes around.' Continuing he then revealed the band had their own surprise for the fans up their sleeve. Advertisement 'You may have heard a rumour that a fellow Glaswegian who goes by the name of Capaldi," Alex told the crowd. "Well, Glastonbury, it gives me great joy to say that these rumours are true. He is here with us tonight. The original Capaldi – Peter Capaldi!' Fans went wild to say the least as Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi walked on stage. Revellers then couldn't believe what they were seeing when the Time Lord joined in with the band to sing their famous hit, Take Me Out. Advertisement NOT THE ONLY CAPALDI AT GLASTO As Franz Ferdinand pointed out, Peter wasn't the only one of the Capaldi family at the Worthy Farm yesterday. The actor's nephew Lewis, 28, joined in on the action for a surprise set on the Pyramid Stage - at the same time as he was on stage with Franz Ferdinand. Lewis Capaldi makes emotional Glastonbury return two years after heartbreaking set Strutting on stage for his surprise set, he told Glastonbury revellers: 'I'm back baby' as he made a triumphant comeback to the famous festival. The Scots singer made his long-anticipated return to the festival two years after he broke down on the very same stage. Advertisement Lewis, who has Tourette's, took a two-year hiatus from performing after his 2023 Glasto set saw him tear up and suffer repeated tics. But he made an emotional return as he swaggered onto the stage yesterday as a crowd of more than 100,000 people chanted his name. The singer told fans the past two years had been 'difficult' but admitted he had unfinished business to resolve. 7 Peter's nephew Lewis Capaldi made an emotional return to the Glastonbury stage last night Credit: Getty Advertisement 7 The famous relatives get on well Credit: Daily Record He said: "Glastonbury, it's so good to be back. I'm not gonna say much up here today because if I do, I think I'll probably start crying. "But I said it's just amazing to be here with you all, and I can't thank you all enough for coming out and coming and seeing me.' Making light of his 2023 performance, which he was forced to cut short, he said: "Second time's a charm on this one, everybody. Advertisement "It's just a short set today, but I just wanted to come and finish what I couldn't finish the first time.' Festival-goers when then treated them to the surprise 35-minute set with hits like Before You Go and Hold Me While You Wait. Introducing his new song, Survive, which dropped this week, Lewis said: "I released a new song. The last two years haven't been the best for me. It's been quite difficult at times. "I wanted to write a song about overcoming that stuff and getting to the other side of it. Advertisement "This has been my f*****g goal to get here. This song's about that."
The Sun
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Glasto fans stunned as Doctor Who legend joins Franz Ferdinand on stage in wild cameo
GLASTONBURY is in full swing and with it comes a whole heap of surprises. In fact there have been so many twists and turns, revellers were left with their jaws dropped when a Doctor Who legend joined Franz Ferdinand on stage for a wild cameo. 7 7 7 7 Yesterday, the noughties indie band took to the Other Stage for a set which included all of their greatest hits. As revellers sang along to their top tunes in the sweltering heat, they then got a welcome surprise. Poking fun at all the talk about "surprise sets" at Glastonbury, lead singer Alex Kaparanos said: 'One of the things I love about Glastonbury is the rumours. You know, all the gossip that goes around.' Continuing he then revealed the band had their own surprise for the fans up their sleeve. 'You may have heard a rumour that a fellow Glaswegian who goes by the name of Capaldi," Alex told the crowd. "Well, Glastonbury, it gives me great joy to say that these rumours are true. He is here with us tonight. The original Capaldi – Peter Capaldi!' Fans went wild to say the least as Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi walked on stage. Revellers then couldn't believe what they were seeing when the Time Lord joined in with the band to sing their famous hit, Take Me Out. NOT THE ONLY CAPALDI AT GLASTO As Franz Ferdinand pointed out, Peter wasn't the only one of the Capaldi family at the Worthy Farm yesterday. The actor's nephew Lewis, 28, joined in on the action for a surprise set on the Pyramid Stage - at the same time as he was on stage with Franz Ferdinand. Lewis Capaldi makes emotional Glastonbury return two years after heartbreaking set Strutting on stage for his surprise set, he told Glastonbury revellers: 'I'm back baby' as he made a triumphant comeback to the famous festival. The Scots singer made his long-anticipated return to the festival two years after he broke down on the very same stage. Lewis, who has Tourette's, took a two-year hiatus from performing after his 2023 Glasto set saw him tear up and suffer repeated tics. But he made an emotional return as he swaggered onto the stage yesterday as a crowd of more than 100,000 people chanted his name. The singer told fans the past two years had been 'difficult' but admitted he had unfinished business to resolve. 7 7 He said: "Glastonbury, it's so good to be back. I'm not gonna say much up here today because if I do, I think I'll probably start crying. "But I said it's just amazing to be here with you all, and I can't thank you all enough for coming out and coming and seeing me.' Making light of his 2023 performance, which he was forced to cut short, he said: "Second time's a charm on this one, everybody. "It's just a short set today, but I just wanted to come and finish what I couldn't finish the first time.' Festival-goers when then treated them to the surprise 35-minute set with hits like Before You Go and Hold Me While You Wait. Introducing his new song, Survive, which dropped this week, Lewis said: "I released a new song. The last two years haven't been the best for me. It's been quite difficult at times. "I wanted to write a song about overcoming that stuff and getting to the other side of it. "This has been my f*****g goal to get here. This song's about that." 7
Arab News
29-05-2025
- Business
- Arab News
Born in the USA and why soon that may not matter
There is a scene in the hysterically funny 2009 movie 'In the Loop' in which the bellicose US military attache Lt. Gen. George Miller, played by the late James Gandolfini, accosts Malcolm Tucker, the foul-mouthed British government spin doctor played by the Scottish actor Peter Capaldi. In the course of a lengthy tirade, Miller denounces the general uselessness and wimpishness of England, all things English and particularly English people as exemplified by Tucker. The spin doctor essays a few ripostes about armchair generals who have never fired a weapon in anger, turns to leave, but then turns back and snarls: 'And don't ever call me ******* English again!' Anyone with sufficient comedic talent could have written and directed the movie, but only a Scot could have written and directed that scene. The Scot in question is Armando Iannucci, a comedy genius who you may know from 'Veep,' the TV series in which he mercilessly skewered the dysfunctional incompetence of White House politics, having previously done the same for the UK with 'The Thick of It.' His name, obviously, denotes Italian heritage, but Iannucci is very much a product of Scotland — as am I: we share a home city, Glasgow, and indeed a school, although 10 years apart. If someone were to suggest that either of us was in any way English, they would be on the receiving end of a mouthful that would put Malcolm Tucker to shame. Taken together, nationality and citizenship create a powerful force that determines who we are as people Ross Anderson Nationality is, above all, an emotion. Citizenship is a bureaucratic process. Taken together, they create a powerful force that determines who we are as people. They are, for example, why Palestinians, despite oppression, persecution and a diaspora scattered to the four winds, remain resolutely and indefatigably Palestinian (and why cruel attempts to drive them out of the West Bank, and absurd attempts to do so from Gaza, are doomed to fail). They are why, despite incomprehension in the US, there was widespread irritation in South America when the new Pope Leo was described as 'the first American pope,' despite having succeeded the proud Argentine and also proud American Pope Francis. As they say south of the Mexican border, 'todos somos Americanos' (we are all American). You would think, therefore, that nationality and citizenship were a straightforward business, but we live in a world where increasingly they are not. Particularly in the US and Western Europe, the shutters are coming down, the barriers are going up, deportation flights are full and there are demands for borders to be closed, as those who already possess citizenship enforce the view that they would rather not be joined by anyone else. The logic of those who oppose migration has always eluded me. Where do they think they came from in the first place? We all know, but it bears repeating for those who have clearly forgotten, that the US became the world's preeminent power wholly on the back of unlimited and uncontrolled immigration, with attempts to limit it desultory. There were a few mostly anti-Asian rules in the late 19th century, but the immigration processing center on Ellis Island was not established until 1892 and migrant quotas and the US Border Patrol had to wait until 1924 — by which time the US was already on a roll. Nor were the early settlers squeamish about their methods: the predecessors of today's US citizens ethnically cleansed the indigenous population from their ancestral land and claimed it as their own because it was their 'manifest destiny' to do so, a scenario that observers of the West Bank today may find depressingly familiar. Since 1898, any child born in the US has been automatically entitled to US citizenship, regardless of the legal status of the child's parents. In almost the first act of the first day of his second term as president, Donald Trump signed an executive order directing that the children of immigrants would no longer receive citizenship unless one of their parents was naturalized or had a green card. Trump did not do that on a whim: polling overwhelmingly suggests that, after retail price inflation, an 'invasion' of undocumented migrants is the issue that most concerns Americans. This is a curious phenomenon, and a paradox. Anti-immigrant sentiment is least fervent in states where you might expect to find it — California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, all of which share a border with Mexico on the main migrant route from the south. The very good reason is that business, industry and agriculture in those states would collapse without a steady supply of migrant labor, legal or otherwise, and employers are not inclined to ask too many awkward questions. Particularly in the US and Western Europe, deportation flights are full and there are demands for borders to be closed Ross Anderson To find genuine anger over illegal immigration, you need to go to the old industrial Midwest of Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — where factory workers from Venezuela are few and far between. There are echoes here of Brexit, the 2016 vote for the UK to leave the EU, which was fueled largely by demands for more control over immigration — demands that came mostly from parts of England where actual migrants are as rare as hen's teeth. With his attempt to end birthright citizenship, Trump has effectively tried to overturn the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, adopted in 1868 and reinforced by the Supreme Court 30 years later, which states: 'All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.' Most US legal scholars consider that to be unequivocal and Trump's executive order has been successfully challenged and overturned in most states. The Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments from the Trump administration that a judge may block a presidential order only in their own jurisdiction and not nationwide, but that is a technical issue that need not concern us here. What seems inevitable is that, probably early next year, the court will be asked to rule on the central issue itself — birthright citizenship. On the face of it, it seems a simple decision: the 14th Amendment could not be clearer. But one of the thornier tasks given to the Supreme Court is to interpret laws regulating circumstances and behavior that were markedly different when the laws were written from what they are now, and to judge what the framers of those laws might have thought had they known then what we know now. For example, an estimated 20,000 women a year, mostly from China, travel to the US specifically to give birth there and gain citizenship for their children. 'Birth tourism' was hardly a thing in 1868: should it be encouraged now? Supporting his executive order is certainly what Trump will expect the court to do, but no one ever made money betting on how a Supreme Court justice will rule — not even the president who nominated them. The judges have a long history of applying their own interpretation of the law, not the political views that a president thought he was sending them to the bench to implement. Either way, our whole understanding of nationality and citizenship may be about to change: watch this space.
Scotsman
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Local Hero a threat to US national security? Alcatraz may await the culprits
Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... In the 1970s, the idea of a Scottish film being an international success was almost laughable. Then along came wonderful movies like Local Hero and Gregory's Girl and, suddenly, we were a hit. However, while Peter Capaldi, John Gordon Sinclair and Clare Grogan didn't realise it, these successes made them threats to US national security. No one else realised either – until self-proclaimed 'very stable genius' Donald Trump worked it all out. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Actor Peter Riegert, who played 'Mac' MacIntyre, inside the famous phone box in the film Local Hero | Contributed 'The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States...' he posted. 'This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat.'
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Scotsman
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Former Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson on new stand-up show he is bringing to UK
Watch more of our videos on and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 Visit Shots! now This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. As part of his world tour, Craig Ferguson brings his latest stand-up show to London and Glasgow in June 2025. He told us what its all about. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Craig Ferguson kickstarted his entertainment career as a drummer for a punk band - the lead singer was Peter Capaldi - then as an actor and stand-up comedian in the late 80s. After a successful turn at the Edinburgh Festival and shows at Glasgow's Tron Theatre - he credits Sir Michael Boyd, the artistic director of The Tron as the person who persuaded him to take to the stage - he moved to the United States in 1994, going on to star in The Drew Carey Show, writing and appearing in movies before securing his role as the host of the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in 2005. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The show ran for eleven seasons featuring interviews with celebrities including Betty White, Jon Hamm, Steve Carrell, Rashida Jones and Mila Kunis. A multiple Grammy nominated, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, producer, director and comedian with a diverse career that encompasses film, television and the stage, Ferguson is a New York Times bestselling author and has recorded numerous stand-up specials for Netflix, Epix, Comedy Central and Amazon. Supplied With such a varied career, why does he continue to return to stand-up? 'I think it's, it's your original it's thing. It's like your original instrument' he says, speaking from his home in New York. 'If you're a guitar player, you can go out and if you do well, you'll play in a band and maybe do somewhere an orchestra and do a concept album about knights of the round table and have a 50 piece thing and all that. But really what you do is you play the guitar, so you go back out and play the guitar, and I feel like that's what stand-up is for me. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'It's what I did at the beginning. I've done it all the way through. I mean, I stopped for a bit, I think in the nineties I stopped because I was doing those independent films and I was working on the Drew Carey Show and there wasn't really any time. 'But other than that, when I started in late night in America, I went back doing stand-up. I felt the two things complimented each other and it is just something I've always done and I like doing it. It's a weird thing. I would probably only say this to someone from Scotland, but it's my job. It's what I do, so I'm going to do it.' Craig made a conscious decision to move his comedy away from topical beats, the political fodder that informed his opening monologues on The Late Late Show. He talks about the show he is bringing to the UK: 'It's anecdotal in the sense that it's stories and it's personal observations. The only rule I give myself about standup, I started round about 2016, is that I gave myself a stylistic choice. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'That I would no longer discuss any kind of politics at all. I'm not going to do it, because particularly, I mean, look, it's a long time since I've done stand-up in the UK, so I don't know if it's the same kind of temperature, but in America, certainly, everybody's doing it. 'It's such a hot button. It's kind of an interesting way to go for me to avoid it. And also I felt like as an audience member, I thought that what I would like is a break look. 'I'm sick of the people that I agree with, nevermind the people that don't. I'm just like, I'm just sick of hearing it. So for an hour and a half or however long I'm on stage, there'll be no politics and all the stuff that you're angry at will still be there when you get out. So nobody's going to lose.' Further information and tickets are available here. Craig Ferguson: Pants on Fire will be at London's O2 Shepherds Bush Empire on 14 June and Glasgow's 02 Academy on 21 June.
