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Bob Smith on the Oscars
‘I might be able to spare
you a couple of minutes,
but no more than that’
Gerry Hassan:
Seven wonders of Scotland
Our national narcotic is
doing so well that there’s no
need to send warships
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A series of articles debating the issues around the referendum
Andrew Hook
Adam Smith should be part of the debate
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Jim Fairlie
The Bank of England would still be calling
the shots
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James Robertson
I enjoyed Judith Jaafar’s story (8 February) about how, when eight and a half months pregnant and having stood all the way on a train journey from London to Scotland in 1976, she was found a seat by two well-oiled Scots boarding at Newcastle, but was unconvinced by her concluding remark, ‘Oh, how I love my fellow Scots’.
It is hard to believe that there were not plenty of other Scots on that packed train who had declined to give up their seats for her between London and Newcastle. These, then, unlike her ‘gallant knights’, were part of the ‘polite and apologetic’ but fundamentally selfish majority – no different, in other words, from the other passengers of whatever creed, colour or nationality.
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Observers
Dunure, Ayrshire
Photograph by
Islay McLeod
Ten questions about
what happened in
Scotland yesterday
Kenneth Roy
What else was happening in Scotland yesterday? Were useful, interesting things going on – contributions to our society – about which we know nothing because we are fed a diet of miscellaneous depravity?
