WE mentioned the flak Andrew Lloyd Webber received for flying in from New York to back the Government on cutting tax credits to the poor. Rab C Nesbitt author Ian Pattsion reminds us: "Years ago at the Glasgow premiere of Lloyd Webber's 'Cats' at the Kings Theatre, Cameron Mackintosh, the producer, was in attendance. One of the guests was Jack Milroy, the sunnier half of Francie and Josie. At the interval Mackintosh stopped by Milroy and asked, 'How are you enjoying Cats?' Jack replied, 'It's no' bad, son. But it could do with a wee dug running aboot to liven it up a bit'.

"And he was right."

PRIME Minister David Cameron was getting a bit red in the face at Prime Minister's Questions yesterday dodging Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's enquiries about said tax credits. As Jeremy eventually said: "I ask, for the sixth time, for an answer to a simple question."

A reader phones to explain: "Today's PMQs is a perfect example of why it's not called Prime Minister's Answers."

WE asked for your charity shop stories and Alan Woodison tells us: "I was chairman of Action Research in Irvine many years ago. Our charity shop in High Street had a standing order to supply a local hotelier with all the bed sheets and duvets that were handed in. We never told a soul. Never stayed in the hotel either!"

YES, even the Church of Scotland is on social media and this week it welcomed its 5,500th follower on Twitter, none other than the Most Reverend Leo Cushley, Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews & Edinburgh. When the Church of Scotland thanked him for following them he replied: "Ut unum sint" - Catholic Archbishops, I've noticed, do show off their knowledge of Latin when they can. It is a quote in the Bible from Jesus - although he didn't use Latin of course - and is generally regarded as a call for Christian unity.

So who said Twitter was just used for political activists to hurl insults at each other. Well done Leo!

QUESTIONS for speakers, continued. Head of employee relations at Scottish Engineering, Raymond Lowe, was running an employment law course in England when he was asked about employees stealing from fellow employees. Says Raymond: "I told them about when I worked in industry and took a two-pound bag of sugar into work on a Monday morning and found that it was gone on Tuesday morning. We thought the nightshift was making tablet.

"I asked at the end of the two-day course if there were any questions to which I was asked, 'what is tablet?'"

WHAT'S been happening out Paisley way we wonder. Piero Pieraccini, mine host at Hamishes' Hoose bar in the town recounts: " Overheard in the bar, two guys were recalling a networking event that they both attended but when trying to describe a particular person at the event one guy said, 'you remember him, he was generously proportioned with an elegantly restrained hairstyle'.

"It took me a wee while to figure out they were referring to a fat baldy guy!"

AMERICAN country rock icon, Steve Earle was in blistering form in Glasgow this week. The seven times divorced, New York-based, hirsute, singer/songwriter had a packed house at the O2 ABC laughing when he said: "This is the chick section of the set, which is important because I’m single now and it stops my audience from getting uglier and hairier.” One of his new songs is titled, appropriately, 'Better Off Alone.' It is a sad song, mind you.