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Opinion: In the Army, following orders is not optional. Shouldn’t this apply to the Commander-in-Chief?

The band he fronted for nearly 60 years toured the world, collaborated with rock stars and helped spark a renaissance for traditional Irish music.

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Friends of all ages and backgrounds were drawn to her; she once spent an entire lunch discussing the merits of cardigans with James Fenton

1. Under the clouds   I left home in Fife and went to live in Glasgow when I was eighteen. When I think of it now, the distance seems laughably small – forty miles, little more than an hour in the train – but the contrast between a village on the east coast and a city, Scotland’s largest, on the west coast was sharp and exciting. I had a bedsit in a dark street of better-class tenements, with a Polish delicatessen, a dance hall and a cinema just round the corner. Glasgow seemed an infini...

The Riddle The rich want me. Fools know me. Heroes fear me. Uncle Stephen had posed this riddle many times over the years. He was a practical joker. His solicitor had just finished reading his will. The bulk of his estate would pass to the beneficiary who solved the riddle. I was a beneficiary with my cousin, Jake. “Is that legal?” Jake spluttered. Mr Carlton’s eyes glistened with amusement. He and Uncle Stephen had been friends for decades. “It’s unusual, I must say. But a testator m...

IN HIS eulogy at the funeral of Stephen McCluskey on Wednesday, his brother paid tribute to a “soul that brought joy and fulfilment to many, and…