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Teachers have told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that Scots should have the power to determine their own political future and "the form of…

DAVID Pratt’s perspective on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan is of course accurate but also steeped in his own professional lived experience as a war correspondent who understands more than most the tragedies that will unfold with the withdrawal. However, as a lifelong political activist of the Scottish independence left, I have always assumed that "we” went into Afghanistan for the wrong reasons in the wrong way. Had it been an in-and-out affair to get Al Qaeda I would probably have found it objectionable for other longer-term reasons but at least it would have had a modicum of st...

I AM utterly horrified that the Westminster Government is increasing its stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. I am thoroughly ashamed to be in some small part complicit in this moral outrage by the mere fact of paying tax. That the wretched, wicked things will be based in Scotland makes me want to weep. It says much about the Government that it can’t find the means to properly pay people who keep others alive but it is determined to have the means and more to kill tens of millions of people indiscriminately. We used to regard leaders who waved their flags around, bolstered up the...

Gilcrease Museum Highlights Tulsa Photographers In New Exhibit A new exhibit at the Gilcrease Museum is highlighting Tulsa photographers. The exhibit is called Assignment Tulsa, and the photographs featured were chosen from a competition held right in the middle of the pandemic. The exhibit features 26 photographers from the community who were given one task: show what makes Tulsa so special. "It's a love letter to Tulsa for people that live here, they love this place, they love what makes Tulsa special," said Gilcrease Museum Curator of History Mark Dolph. Dolph says the exhibit is a part...

One of the Vanguard class of submarines based at Faslane on the Clyde, which can be armed with nuclear weapons. Photo Jeff Mitchell/Getty BORIS Johnson's government is to push ahead with a £130 billion plan to renew the Trident nuclear weapons system despite the grave financial crisis caused by the pandemic. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said today there were no proposals to postpone the programme with the new submarines to be moved to Faslane on the Clyde once they were built. Chancellor Rishi Sunak told MPs in November of the worst economic contraction in more than 300 years, w...