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SOMETIMES it’s healthy to be faced with ideas that challenge us, even offend us, so I’ve decided to be offensive. I think the SNP’s 11th-hour
WHEN WRITING about the ongoing saga in Bute House it is difficult to know when and where to begin. There is much running commentary around
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IT HAD TO HAPPEN eventually. A Stalinist party machine has disappeared an erudite Trotskyist. The ice pick was swung in the dark, no press release
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DAVID NICHOLL is a Consultant Neurologist, well respected in the management of Parkinson’s Disease and Epilepsy. His clinical work is highly valued. He is not
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THERE IS SOMETHING extremely vulgar about Brunei. For long a fiefdom of the British establishment who never shy from fawning over its leader, it has