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The Europe for Scotland organisation insist there is a mandate for a second independence referendum A LEADING European organisation has insisted the SNP have a clear mandate for a second independence referendum and that Boris Johnson cannot democratically refuse one. The campaign group, based on the continent, say the Prime Minister does not have the moral authority to deny a new vote following the SNP's landslide victory in the election on Thursday last week which saw a majority of MSPs elected who back indyref2. In a statement released today Europe for Scotland said the outcome of t...

Catriona MacDonald is running for the SNP in Edinburgh Southern at the Holyrood election. Photograph: Gordon Terris HIGH-PROFILE support for Scotland's membership of the European Union demonstrates the door is open for the country to rejoin, according to SNP candidate Catriona MacDonald. Leading academics, writers, and political thinkers have backed 'Europe for Scotland’, a new campaign group supporting Scottish EU membership on the continent. In an open letter to leaders in Brussels and government heads of the EU27, it calls for them to make explicit before an independence referend...

A junior at Episcopal Academy, Will Sargent is a talented artist who works in several mediums. He fabricates his own textiles and taught himself Armenian lace making, and recently won two Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for painting and mixed media. Sargent is a member of EA’s select singing group, the Vocal Ensemble, was selected for the ACDA Honors Choir and is the editor of The Epolitan, an annually published arts and music magazine. He won a French award his freshman year, and is a member of the German Club and the Queer Straight Alliance. Sargent was selected for Global Youth Leader...

23 hours ago As per its usual fashion, the Wisconsin weather has been a bit temperamental lately, and we have had to say goodbye to the warm sunny days we were seeing in order to greet the return of the brisk cool air and cloudy skies. All in all, it is the perfect time to have a day filled with Netflix binging, or your other preferred streaming service. I happened to have watched a few films with friends over the weekend, which prompted this week’s recommendation theme: a few of my favorite books that inspired film or television adaptions. For the record, I am not commenting on the movies ...

“it’s really only good if people use it well” [awkward silence, no further discussion] As a part time professional ‘creative writing tutor’, I can say I only ever teach the present tense as one tool among many. I do not urge it on my ‘sensitive and artistic storytellers’, or any of the insensitive ones either. I teach students that verbs are the way they create a relationship for the reader to time, and function a little like the way a horizon line might in a picture. As for using it to dodge the ‘politically dodgy’, well, I can’t imagine teaching anyone that way with a st...