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THE VERY ATTRACTIVE, beefcake actor, Henry Caville, who plays Superman and was runner-up to Daniel Craig for the role of Bond (and is sometimes tipped

THE VERY ATTRACTIVE, beefcake actor, Henry Caville, who plays Superman and was runner-up to Daniel Craig for the role of Bond (and is sometimes tipped

THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT that Gordon Dean is right to point out the dishonesty of the SNP position on a future borderwith the rest

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

IT’S OBVIOUS there’ll be no ProUK single party gaining a working majority in May. Even though the SNP will probably see its vote share, in

LAST WEEK an SNP MSP proclaimed that a hard border would create jobs – “we can show that a border will work – there are

‘THE BIG LIE’ (die große Lüge) is a propaganda technique used for political purposes; defined as “a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the facts, especially

DURING Andrew Marr’s verbal mauling of Nicola Sturgeon on Sunday morning, the First Minister claimed she didn’t know how Scotland’s finances would be affected by

WHY IS THERE so much hatred in Scotland? I don’t remember this as a factor in public discourse in most of the decades of my

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

THE SCOTTISH ECONOMY is in a desperate state. It has long been lagging behind the UK economy but now the prognosis must be considered as dire.

AN EARTHQUAKE on 11 March 2011 caused a tsunami to hit the northeast coast of Japan. 18,500 people are believed to have died following the
THE CENTRE-PIECE of the SNP manifesto released on 15 April turned out not to be a road-map for the next independence referendum; that is being discreetly mothballed.