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IGNORE the usual suspects, the fact is Brexit Britain joining CPTPP is a fantastic long term opportunity, representing a globally significant event. It makes re-joining
Nicola Sturgeon has resigned. This piece on polling, reporting what was obviously very bad news for the SNP, was written yesterday before the announcement, I
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WHATEVER ELSE you may say about the First Minister, she is a glutton for punishment. I can’t imagine she looks forward to First Minister’s Questions,
IN THE 1980s, while living in Berlin, I was invited to a Marlene Dietrich party. I was the only woman there and by far the
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IN THE PAST FOUR weeks there have been two big, well organised, demonstrations against SNP/Green policy and legislation outside the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh.
THERE IS an important insight in economics called “what is unseen” – a shorthand description of a treatise offered by Frederic Bastiat about the effects
AGAINST A BACKGROUND of spiralling inflation, an energy crisis, the NHS in meltdown, falling educational standards, soaring drug deaths and a lack of affordable housing,