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SIR Tom Devine says the omission of any mention of the indyref in Home Office UK citizenship tests is “not untypical of the recent attitude to…

Fact Check Gavin Williamson (right) intervened after some Oxford students chose to take down a picture of the Queen which had been hanging since 2013 CLAIM: “Oxford University students removing a picture of the Queen is simply absurd. She is the Head of State and a symbol of what is best about the UK” – Gavin Williamson, English education secretary, June 8, 2021. DOORSTEP ANSWER: Oxford students have a right to free speech. Conservative ministers like Gavin Williamson are onl...

YOUNG folk today would be horrified that the BBCs Black And White Minstrel Show regularly had a 16m audience for 20 years to 1978 with prominent…

WHEN Shirley-Anne Somerville says she will take full responsibility for the appeals process for this year’s diet of “exams”, she’s doing nothing noble or exceptional: she is merely explaining where responsibility lies – with her. The SQA is not some alien monster inflicted on the education system, controlling exams and, of its own volition, making teachers’ and pupils’ lives a misery. No, the SQA is a quango set up by and controlled by the Government. It is the Government that...

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NEIL MACKAY’S BIG READ: ‘THE UNION HASN’T BEEN IN SUCH PERIL SINCE THE JACOBITE RISINGS’ … NATION’S GREATEST HISTORIAN ON WHERE SCOTLAND…

AS I have shown over the last few weeks, Scotland’s Radical War or Scottish Insurrection of 1820, centred on Glasgow, was a long time coming, and events in England and the influence of Englishmen in particular proved crucial in the run up to that revolutionary year. After the huge meeting on Glasgow Green in October 1816, the radical movement transformed as weavers and men from other trades formed societies, usually based on workers’ unions, to campaign for political change and better c...

IBA President Sternford Moyo, senior partner and chairman of law firm Scanlen and Holderness in Zimbabwe, said: ‘When whistleblowers report wrongdoings societies benefit. But generally, these courageous truth-tellers do not receive the protection that they should.  Putting aside the moral imperative, whistleblowers must be given the full protection of law. Today, there is no greater example of the need for such safeguarding than that of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has underscored both the imp...

In the latter years of the 18th century and the early years of the 19th century, Glasgow was like other parts of Scotland, most notably Edinburgh and Aberdeen, in that its citizens were engaged in what he would now call politics but which back then was described as philosophical speculation. The Scottish Enlightenment, of which Glasgow was a principal centre, led people young and old, wise and foolish, and mostly male but with a few female contributors, to discuss, question and learn abou...