AFTER A LIFE dedicated to service in an exacting role which she carried out to a consistently high standard for the immense span of seventy

SCOTLAND’S nearly 150 years as an industrial powerhouse were sometimes replete with communal tensions.  Economic rivalry between workers, religious differences, and occasionally fierce ones over the

THAT PENETRATING legal mind Ian Mitchell recently argued that both Putin’s Russia and Sturgeon’s Scotland are places where the defining trademark of the ruling parties is bombastic

MEDIA ATTENTION galore has been lavished on the supposed incipient Scottish revolution.  London-based political journalists breezily asserted last week that a constitutional tsunami was imminent which

AS THE SCOURGE of Covid is halted in its tracks by medical breakthroughs pioneered in Britain, the watchword from the media and officialdom is that

THE VIOLENT DEATH last week of Idriss Déby, the President of Chad, produced the briefest of flickers  in the news cycle. Rather unusually, the 68-year-old had died

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