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Syria's lost generation

by Ben Acheson
WAR STILL rages in Syria - a fact that we are too quick to forget. The second birthday of the crisis has long passed and resolution doesn't appear to be on the horizon. When Syria-related news does reach our media outlets ...

Article from Wednesday 22, May, 2013
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The General Assembly: What is truth?

by Andrew Yule
IT WOULD BE impossible to consider or discuss this year's General Assembly of the Church of Scotland without passing comment on the great and fully expected elephant on the Mound presented by the prospect of any additional openly gay Ministers ...

Article from Tuesday 21, May, 2013
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The myth of Scottish moral superiority

by Murdo Fraser
“WHA’S LIKE?” has been a defiant rallying call for Scots over the centuries. The image we have created for ourselves is that of a proud nation, distinguishing ourselves from our neighbours to the south by a different outlook on life. ...

Article from Saturday 18, May, 2013
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No cigar for Mervyn King

by Mike Nevin
 
AS SIR MERVYN King enters his final days as Governor of the Bank of England, the time is right to assess his overall record over the past ten years. 1. Monetary policy before the credit crunch. ...

Article from Friday 17, May, 2013
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We need to talk about rape

by Ben Acheson
THANKS TO Coronation Street actors, I'm a Celebrity contestants, horrendous events in Oxford and America and a recent English High Court correctly ruling that it can occur even when sex was consensual, rape has not been far from the public ...

Article from Wednesday 15, May, 2013
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Only anonymity will keep us innocent until found guilty

by Mark Jardine
OUR COUNTRY prides itself on its judiciary, upholding it as the example for all others to follow. Sadly, trial by media has become the norm, damaging the very essence of its foundations, leaving our once unique jury system tarnished by ...

Article from Tuesday 14, May, 2013
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Competing currencies across Europe would be a Scottish approach

by Andrew Chamberlain
THE BEST response to the nationalist schism over which currency to use in an independent Scotland came from an organisation that has historically had little influence North of the border. Phillip Booth, writing for Margaret Thatcher's favourite think tank, the ...

Article from Monday 13, May, 2013
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What’s German for "We need more engineers"?

by Murdo Fraser
ONE OF THE issues which keeps cropping up on the agenda of the Scottish Parliament’s Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee, which I have the honour of convening, is that of skills shortages across the science and engineering sectors. This is ...

Article from Saturday 11, May, 2013
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The Sterile ‘Centre Ground’!

by Vivian Linacre
BLAIR SET OUT to capture it, Brown tried to hold it, while Cameron is told he must not stray from it – must not ‘lurch to the right’ – nor may Miliband lurch to the left. Yet none of them has ...

Article from Friday 10, May, 2013
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Wind Farms: the utter fraud that costs us dear

by Peter de Vink
 LIKE ALMOST everyone in Scotland I was in favour of renewable energy. When a wind farm was proposed on Bowbeat Hill in the Borders some 1.5 miles from my home near the Gladhouse Reservoir many years ago I did ...

Article from Thursday 9, May, 2013
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