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When writing about Scottish educational reform, it’s all too easy to slip into analogies of battlefields, repeatedly fought over for little…

IAIN Macwhirter ("Scotland’s indy movement needs to go back if it is to go forward", January 9) thinks “devo max/federalism” is…

* Why do people not have on "off" button when drinking in public? * Why do people lose control when drinking in public? * Why do people often become belligerent and aggressive when drinking in public? Allied to trying to answer those questions, consider the reluctance of the Lord Advocate some years ago to proceed with cases where the sole charge was the common law crime of breach of the peace. Along with this, consider the diminution over time of the power of the police to arrest witho...

D. Campbell Cassidy: An appreciation SISTER Pauline, the formidable headteacher at St Michael’s Academy, in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, was looking for a new Principal Teacher of English. Among the sheaf of CVs on her desk that day in 1973 was one from an applicant whose surname was Cassidy. Spotting his name, Sister Pauline thought he was just the kind of teacher they were after, and appointed him without even an interview. Thus, as Campbell Cassidy’s friends would recall, was a Methodist ...

D. Campbell Cassidy: An appreciation SISTER Pauline, the formidable headteacher at St Michael’s Academy, in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, was looking for a new Principal Teacher of English. Among the sheaf of CVs on her desk that day in 1973 was one from an applicant whose surname was Cassidy. Spotting his name, Sister Pauline thought he was just the kind of teacher they were after, and appointed him without even an interview. Thus, as Campbell Cassidy’s friends would recall, was a Methodist ...