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This morning, Norwegian authorities confirmed they have killed the well-travelled young walrus known as Freya. Prior to her arrival in Oslo, she has been spotted in Denmark, the Netherlands, England and, late last year, Shetland. Freya arrived in Oslo about a month ago and has...
As the council appears interested in returning to its policy of "self-determination" over the coming term, I look forward to finding out what this might actually mean in practice. Local government in Scotland is indeed in a dire state and has long been denied the parity of...
Mathew Nicolson’s article contained some useful statistics but omitted a key point. There is no point in having party councillors if there are no parties. The only moment during the period he deals with when there were active political parties in Shetland was the Thatcher era....
Ahead of May’s local government election, modern political history PhD student Mathew Nicolson looks at the role party politics has played in council elections over the years. And although there is an increase in the number of candidates on a party ticket, his verdict is clear...
Without getting into the ins and outs of the Lerwick Up Helly Aa debate, one of the most disturbing aspects that I notice crop up each year is a tendency to imply that people's backgrounds determine whether their opinions are equally valid. It is common to see references to...