But judge Ailsa Carmichael at Scotland's Court of Session ruled the question was hypothetical, academic and premature, without the need to express a view on the legal issues it raised. Scots rejected independence by 55%-45 in 2014 referendum and the ruling Scottish National Party...
In 1533, when King Henry VIII marriedAnne Boleyn, Lady Margaret became one of Anne’s ladies-in-waiting. While at Anne’s court, Lady Margaret metLord Thomas Howard, a younger son ofThomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolkand his second wifeAgnes Tilney. Lord Thomas was a half-brother of the...
The Labour Party today has a Commons … The Strange Death of Social Democratic Britain Kashmir and the Indus 27 Apr 2025 at 1:31pm India’s Hindutva President, Narendra Modi, has used the Kashmir terrorism incident to abrogate the 1960s Indus Waters Treaty – a longstanding goal of Modi...
Whilst she ignores a high court ruling to denounce his fitness to stand, refers to him as a drinker and gambler and states that she will not, under any circumstances, work with him!The only thing he has ever said, which has been framed, unfoundedly, as an attack, was his insistence ...
Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well known across the world today include "A Red, Red Rose", "A Man's a Man for A' That", "To a Louse", "To a Mouse", "The Battle of Sherramuir", "Tam o' Shanter" and "Ae Fond Kiss". Age: Dec. at 37 (1759-1796) Birthplace...
A USA TODAY investigation found the group is still small in the U.S. − with activities far less pervasive than established transnational criminal groups, such as MS-13. As the above shows, El Salvador is home to MS-13. Seems strange it is TDA and not MS-13 being pursued by ICE, ...
David S. Berry Gas-umped! Today (Sunday, October 10th) Business Secretary Kwarsi Kwarteng was doing the rounds of the politics talk shows, trying to pour renewables (rather than oil) on the troubled waters of the badly overheated natural gas market. Wholesale prices, which started at 60p a...
The ruling by James Hamilton, an independent senior lawyer who investigated Sturgeon's conduct, will come as a huge relief to her. Any breach of the code of conduct would have been expected to have led to calls for her resignation. "I am of the opinion that the Fi...
Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well known across the world today include "A Red, Red Rose", "A Man's a Man for A' That", "To a Louse", "To a Mouse", "The Battle of Sherramuir", "Tam o' Shanter" and "Ae Fond Kiss". Age: Dec. at 37 (1759-1796) Birthplac...
It does not become better if it is renamed ‘civic nationalism’ or ‘patriotism’, andArthur Schopenhauer’s snarky comments about nationalism (Nationalstolz) (Scho-penhauer,1976: 66)36are as valid today as they were in the nineteenth century.(Oneshould also remember François Mitterrand’s ...