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ARTICLES Silenced by the police
ARTICLES Silenced by the police Bill Heaney George Square, Glasgow, 23 December 2014 Police Scotland have come in for a great deal of stick recently, so you may consider it…
ARTICLES Silenced by the police Bill Heaney George Square, Glasgow, 23 December 2014 Police Scotland have come in for a great deal of stick recently, so you may consider it…
The political process is always looking for the next great orator; the person who can ignite an audience and turn a memorable phrase. American politicians have given us some legendary…
In 1956 Gordonstoun School was in transition between the founding spirit of Kurt Hahn, an educational genius who ran the school by force of his (warm, eccentric) personality and a…
Thursday 1 January 2009 A new year, but the conflict which has dominated world events for the past 60 years goes on with the same intensity and bitterness. It’s a…
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In last Sunday’s London Marathon, one runner took pity on another and helped him over the line. A repeat performance in the general election? Dream on.. . Is Trump going…
Federico Garcia Lorca is best known in the English-speaking world as the author of plays where characters struggle to express sexual love in a repressive atmosphere; an atmosphere which is…
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot (Victorian journalist). The…
Kenneth Roy’s article ( 14 November ) on punditry struck a chord. But ‘pundits’ inhabit the world their readers do, a world that now demands simplistic easy answers to complex…
Inveramsay was Kenneth Roy’s inspiration for founding the Young Scotland Programme – a forum for debate and dialogue – in 2002. But he never dreamt that he would find out…