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THE week before last Prof Ciaran Martin, a former UK civil servant who in his role as Cabinet Office Constitution Director (2011-2014) had helped negotiate the basis of the 2014 Scottish Referendum with the Scottish Government, gave a public lecture – Resist, Reform or Re-Run – at Oxford University (and did the media rounds afterwards) pointing out that if Boris Johnston simply refuses to grant a second independence referendum to a Scots Government elected with a mandate to hold such a referendum then he will be changing the Union of the United Kingdom from one based on consent to one...

To save the UK, Scottish nationalists should be given the Canada treatment To save the UK, Scottish nationalists should be given the Canada treatment The Scottish National Party's demand for a referendum of independence is back in focus. The UK can settle the matter if it only learns from how Canada dealt with Quebec's referendum. Niall Ferguson 19 April, 2021 9:41 am IST Text Size: A+ Scottish nationalism was my gateway drug to politics. The year was 1979. I was 15 — an age when it is easy to confuse the mood of a crowd of football fans with the case for...

“There’s lots of history here, but it was time to let go.” The Cunningham family’s roots runs deep on the site. Out behind their FasGas station, the original log cabin still stands where founder George Cunningham built the business under the Imperial Oil banner in 1923. The roof caved during snowfall last winter, but the thick walls remain as stout testament to the family’s long-time commitment to their business. And the records are all still there in grease-stained bound volumes, including an entry in October 1925, when a Mr. Colin Campbell traded two chickens for a gallon of ga...

IF ever anyone wanted proof that the Unionist leadership can be a bunch of sleekit, cheating, conniving, deceiving, dishonest, fraudulent, conspiratorial folks hooked up as the Rabble Together, then it came with Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross’s declaration yesterday morning that Unionists like him should boycott any referendum called by the Scottish Parliament. As Kathleen Nutt reports elsewhere, he was asked whether pro-UK voters should run a campaign urging supporters of the Union not to vote. “I would absolutely boycott that,” he said. He went on: “We were told the 2014 re...

UPDATED: 10:06, Fri, Dec 18, 2020 Brexit: Naval intervention over fishing backed by Lord West Brexit trade talks have stalled this week over the issue of fisheries, with the EU digging their heels in on their demand for access to UK waters after the end of the transition period. With the deadline fast approaching, the Ministry of Defence confirmed four 80-metre armed vessels had been placed on standby to guard British waters from EU trawlers on January 1 if no agreement on fishing rights was reached. Mr Johnson’s stance was criticised by senior Tories including Tobias Ellwood, Conservativ...