Theresa May has insisted she will “still have a job in two weeks’ time” as she begins the final countdown to a crucial vote on her Brexit deal, the top food trends for next year have been revealed and Rangers hero Alfredo Morelos is on the verge of breaking the Scottish Premiership goals record. 

This year, it feels, has been Young Fathers’ year; which seems unusual to say about a band withy multiple breakthroughs in their history, including a Scottish Album of the Year Award for Tape Two in 2014 and a Mercury Prize for Dead the same year. In 2018 they’ve become the first artist to win the SAY Award for the second time – for their third album Cocoa Sugar – but it’s the public response to that record which has been truly telling.

FRANKIE Valli has long been plagued by accusations that he mimes in concert. After spending two hours in his company, sitting in a row not far from the stage, it certainly appeared to me to be the case. Does it matter? Not according to the thousands who enjoyed this show. They either didn’t notice or didn’t care that Valli might not have been singing for the most part. Valli entertained them. I wanted to enjoy it too as I’m a fan of his work, but I found it all too sad and embarrassing for comfort. Valli is 84 and this is his farewell tour. I take no pleasure from stating that he should’ve retired years ago.

ROLL up, roll up, for the greatest pantomime on Earth and the return of King’s Theatre panto legend Andy Gray.Yes if you go down to The King’s next Christmas, you’re in for a big surprise.

If theatrical stars were all about levels of ambition, then the rating for Ella Hickson’s Wendy And Peter Pan, at the Lyceum this Christmas, would be off the scale. In creating her stage version of Peter Pan – first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2013 – Hickson has connected brilliantly with the themes of death and loss in JM Barrie’s original story, and with her own sense that the play is somehow a “manual for grief” for young audiences.