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The leaders of Scotland’s six biggest parties faced off on the same stage for the first time in this election campaign. The leaders of Scotland’s six main political parties have…
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The road to recovery
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Correcting our Grammar mistake
During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a pledge to open new grammar schools, no class warrior threw himself into the battle against selective education with such ferocity…
Where hope takes root
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Creative destruction
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Fight madness with more madness
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The rewilding Republican
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A side dish of bugs, please
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The politics of colour
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Acts of sedition
Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author
CULTURE
“While there was no shortage of women writers getting published, their novels weren’t being honoured like the ones men were writing”
Kate Mosse
Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her strict Lutheran upbringing and her novel The End of Drum-Time
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Hungry Ghosts
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