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The Europe for Scotland organisation insist there is a mandate for a second independence referendum A LEADING European organisation has insisted the SNP have a clear mandate for a second independence referendum and that Boris Johnson cannot democratically refuse one. The campaign group, based on the continent, say the Prime Minister does not have the moral authority to deny a new vote following the SNPs landslide victory in the election on Thursday last week which saw a majority of MSPs e...

Catriona MacDonald is running for the SNP in Edinburgh Southern at the Holyrood election. Photograph: Gordon Terris HIGH-PROFILE support for Scotlands membership of the European Union demonstrates the door is open for the country to rejoin, according to SNP candidate Catriona MacDonald. Leading academics, writers, and political thinkers have backed Europe for Scotland’, a new campaign group supporting Scottish EU membership on the continent. In an open letter to leaders in Brussels an...

A junior at Episcopal Academy, Will Sargent is a talented artist who works in several mediums. He fabricates his own textiles and taught himself Armenian lace making, and recently won two Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for painting and mixed media. Sargent is a member of EA’s select singing group, the Vocal Ensemble, was selected for the ACDA Honors Choir and is the editor of The Epolitan, an annually published arts and music magazine. He won a French award his freshman year, and is a mem...

23 hours ago As per its usual fashion, the Wisconsin weather has been a bit temperamental lately, and we have had to say goodbye to the warm sunny days we were seeing in order to greet the return of the brisk cool air and cloudy skies. All in all, it is the perfect time to have a day filled with Netflix binging, or your other preferred streaming service. I happened to have watched a few films with friends over the weekend, which prompted this week’s recommendation theme: a few of my favorite ...

“it’s really only good if people use it well” [awkward silence, no further discussion] As a part time professional ‘creative writing tutor’, I can say I only ever teach the present tense as one tool among many. I do not urge it on my ‘sensitive and artistic storytellers’, or any of the insensitive ones either. I teach students that verbs are the way they create a relationship for the reader to time, and function a little like the way a horizon line might in a picture. As for using...

HAY Festival has revealed its free programme for schools for this spring’s edition, bringing writers and young people together online for a series of inspiring interactive activities and workshops. The schools programme runs from May 24-28, ahead of the main programme running from May 26 to June 6. Parents, teachers and young people can register for the free sessions now at hayfestival.org/schools. Five sessions will be broadcast daily for pupils across KS1-4 with each event accompani...

March 17, 2021 at 10:26 am | Published in: Africa, Egypt, News Jailed Egyptian sibling activists Alaa Abdel Fattah (2nd L) and Sanaa Seif (R) gesture after they were granted permission by authorities to attend the funeral of their father, prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed Seif el-Islam, in Cairo on 28 August 2014. [HASAN MOHAMED/AFP via Getty Images] March 17, 2021 at 10:26 am Political prisoner Sanaa Seif is expected to be sentenced today, nine months after she was abducted from ...

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Ed Sheeran turns 30 - from homeless busker to millionaire family man Ed Sheeran turns 30. (Courtesy) Ed Sheeran is a household name and one of the most recognisable British music stars worldwide. Now as the star turns 30-years-old, just what is the flame-haired singers story? Edward Christopher Sheeran was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire on February 17, 1991 as the son of parents who both worked in art galleries. The family moved to Framlingham, Suffolk when Ed was young and his dad continued t...

(© Courtesy of The Really Useful Group Ltd) We run down yet another week of wonderful Sky Arts goodness for theatre fans to indulge in (particularly useful if youre current facing big wads of snowfall!). Les Mis returns at a slightly anti-social hour, while there are also fantastic shows well worth a watch including the Royal Albert Hall concert production of The Phantom of the Opera with Ramin Karimloo as the Phantom and Sierra Boggess as Christine. We run through the full assortment below: ...