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'The Last Queen' and 'The Crown in Crisis' make for peerless reading


By Steve Donoghue
Correspondent
It’s been 85 years since King Edward VIII’s reign formally ended when the British Parliament passed the Abdication Act on Dec. 11, 1936. The saga is recounted by journalist Alexander Larman in “The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication.” Edward’s departure brought an end to the shortest reign – just 326 days – since Lady Jane Grey’s nine days in 1553 and put Edward’s brother on the throne as King George VI.
At the heart of the abdication story was an American divorcée named Wallis Warfield Simpson. Edward met her while he was the  beloved Prince of Wales, and although his father, crusty old King George V, hated even the mention of this interloper, Edward became obsessed with her. Even after George’s sudden death made him king, he was determined to marry Simpson – though she was an  commoner with two former husbands still living and he was now the head o ....

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Gerry Hassan: The problem is Scottish Labour itself, not whoever's in charge


THE Scottish Labour Party has contributed so much over the past 20 years; not in terms of substantive politics in government or opposition but in the realm of scandal, drama and soap opera.
Richard Leonard’s resignation is the latest episode in this long-running saga which has increasingly been playing to diminishing audiences and reviews. He has been the ninth ­Labour leader in two decades; the sixth leader in opposition, and the fifth since the 2014 indyref, as the change and churn of leaders speeds up and their impact gets less and less.
Scottish Labour once was the dominant political force in the land. It saw Scotland as part of Labour’s heartlands and in so doing took voters for granted and became a party of patronage, preferment and cronyism, and the political establishment. For some in Labour the creation of the Scottish Parliament was a democratising and energising act, but for many in senior positions it was a way to keep, even to extend, the self-preserv ....

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