Numpty, dating from the 18th century, was once voted Scotland’s favourite word CALLING someone a numpty is acceptable at work, an employment judge has ruled. The light-hearted jibe could not be ...

Calling a colleague a “numpty” is not discrimination, a tribunal judge has ruled. The light-hearted insult, which usually means silly or foolish, does not have any “racial or disability connotations”, ...

Ronnie O’Sullivan once got so sick of playing ‘numpties’ who he’d ‘never heard of’, he called for them to be banned from snooker tournaments. The Rocket is perhaps the most recognisable name in ...

A campaign by The Union to coincide with the start of the new football season has been launched by The Scottish Sun. The campaign will develop through the season using the line ‘Sorts the fans from ...

Sonny Kalar made series of claims including race and disability discrimination – all were dismissed A long-serving Metropolitan police sergeant has failed in his attempt to sue the force for ...

My understandably bruised fellow councillor Gavin Barrie who, having just been voted out of all his committee positions by his SNP colleagues on the city council, last week tweeted about a ...

Calling a colleague a "numpty" is allowed as it is not discrimination, an employment judge has ruled. The word "numpty" dates back to 1733 and is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "a stupid ...