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I VOTED FOR DEVOLUTION in 1997 from a sense of Scottishness and because I thought bringing decision making closer to home would improve our public
IN HIS PLAY, “The Crucible”, Arthur Miller has the protagonist John Proctor, say the following, “We are what we always were in Salem, but now