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NOEL KING, HOST: Scots will vote today in regional elections that could determine the near future of that country. If the pro-independence parties win a majority, theyre going to push for a referendum on whether Scotland should leave the United Kingdom. Heres NPRs Frank Langfitt in Edinburgh. FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: When Scotland held its first independence referendum in 2014, 55% of voters opposed it. One was a Scottish American student named Emma Hodcroft. Shed spent the election day here in ...

Writing in his Scotsman article today, McLeish echoed another eminent historian, Sir Tom Devine. McLeish (below) argues: “Scotland and Wales are seen instead as being out of step, irritating and ungrateful. This dismal view of the future requires Scotland to be brought to heel. “After the election result, Johnson and the Tories must change. Their current position is ruinous to the idea of working out a different future. The old political union is not fit for purpose.” Speaking to...

Professor Ciaran Martin said the once in a generation phrase had been nothing but a slogan THE “once in a generation” phrase parroted by Conservatives in their attempt to block a second independence vote is nothing but a slogan and has no constitutional relevance, one of the architects of the Edinburgh Agreement has said. Professor Ciaran Martin, from the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, also warned that any Supreme Court battle between the London and Edinburgh...

Ciaran Martin was right at the heart of the British government – he was one of the architects of the 2014 referendum, the UK’s lead official on the constitution, and helped run GCHQ. Now, in an explosive intervention on the eve of the Scottish election, he launches a blistering attack blaming the Tory government for putting the union in jeopardy IF Scotland votes to break with the UK it will be the fault of Boris Johnson’s policy of “Know Your Place Unionism”, according to the influ...

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Waterford, Ireland / WLR Apr 21, 2021 7:00 PM All Ireland winning minor and under 21 boss Sean Power is back as manager of the Waterford under 14 hurlers this season. The Mount Sion man jumped at the opportunity. “Jonathan Moore is coordinating the hurling side of the academy teams and he approached me a couple of months back to see if I would be interested in getting involved. I have very fond memories from when I initially got involved in 2007 with regional teams and then the 2008 Sonny Wa...

‘THE choice is basically this: Does Scotland want to be a small, independent nation, likely back in the EU but with new barriers to trade and travel with the rest of the UK; or does it wish to remain in the UK, with its own powers over some areas but subordinate to the will of the English majority on others?” It’s a good question – you just don’t expect to hear a dyed in the wool civil servant with impeccable British state credentials asking it. Ciaran Martin was constitution di...

Comment In a clash between laws and votes, the UK has three options – to resist a referendum, reform the UK, or re-run the referendum THE UK is not in a good state – undermined by the concerted actions of the UK Government, continuing to show a lack of understanding of the Union. All of this is coming to a head as we approach the Scottish elections, raising the stakes for how people vote and raising difficult questions about the nature of UK democracy. This Tory government is dramatical...

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