Scots roots Look like a tactical Gambit for Anya & Co

IT’LL be the battle of the jocks at tomorrow’s 78th Golden Globes. Two of the biggest stars in the biggest TV shows are up for best TV actress. Anya Taylor-Joy, left, whose dad is an Argentinian-Scot, is a firm favourite to win for The Queen’s Gambit but has competition from Daisy Edgar Jones, whose dad is Scottish, for the lockdown hit Normal People. Anya, is also up for best film actress for

Emma. Keeping the UK flag flying is Olivia Colman who is favourite to win the best TV actress award for The Crown although she’s up against castmate Emma Corrin, who played Princess Diana, and Jodie Comer for Killing Eve.

Supporting TV actress nominations also feature The Crown’s Helena Bonham Carter.

Hugh Grant is in the running for best TV actor, while Sacha Baron Cohen, James Corden and Dev Patel compete for best film actor in a musical or comedy. Cohen is also nominated for best supporting film actor for The Trial of the Chicago 7.

Nicholas Hoult is hoping to win in the best actor in a musical or comedy slot.

With some claiming he’ll nab his second Oscar, Sir Anthony Hopkins is favourite to win best actor in a drama for The Father.

But he’s up against Riz Ahmed for Sound of Metal, Gary Oldman for Mank and the late Chadwick Boseman for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Lily

Collins was blasted on social media for being nominated for Emily in Paris over Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You, which was completely snubbed.

Carey Mulligan for Promising Young Woman and Vanessa Kirby for Pieces of a Woman are up for best film actress – drama.

The event will be hosted by Tina Fey in New York and Amy Poehler in Los Angeles, with awards presented by the likes of Margot Robbie, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joaquin Phoenix and Renée Zellweger.

MY kneejerk reaction when I first heard about the runaway schoolgirl was to demand her head.

I thought: “She admitted she wasn’t fazed by decapitated heads in the bin, she makes the rest of us moderate Muslims guilty by association, she is evil. Good riddance.” But we don’t revoke the citizenship of other criminals, no matter how heinous their atrocities.

We respect the law and try them in court. Well, not any more. The real message from this nonsensical ruling is if you are brown you are not really British.

After decades of trying to continually prove our allegiance to this country, it turns out we aren’t accepted at all.

It’s what racial extremists have waited for – the right to send us back to where we don’t come from. It makes me sick.

MANY counter-terror bosses feared the Supreme Court would rule in Begum’s favour, paving the way for dozens of British jihadis to return.

The Home Office says she is a serious terror risk. She certainly could be a danger here as IS was skilled at teaching followers how to hide radicalised intent.

All the British IS prisoners in Syria who have been interviewed by our sister paper, the Daily Mirror, claim they did nothing wrong. And what could be more convincing than a child bride who has lost three babies and has been left to rot in Syria? Had she been allowed to return she would have been watched very closely by officers, costing taxpayers millions. And yesterday there were huge sighs of relief at MI5 and the police’s Counter Terrorism Command.

A REWARD of £5000 has been offered for information leading to the arrest of five masked men who raided a pensioner’s home.

The thugs broke in and put the 74-year-old through what police called “an extremely frightening ordeal”, before stealing cash.

An anonymous Good Samaritan who knows the victim said: “It’s a small amount to pay to bring these thugs to justice.

“Somebody somewhere must know something because the scum who did this won’t be able to keep their mouths shut.”

The raid happened on Monday night at Newfield Caravan Park in Annan Road, Dumfries.