we didn't do anything crucial, but instead each set up two £5 direct debits to charity (I've also seen people set up two £1 direct debits to their main accounts, which could work too), so we wouldn't end u
And 16 children aged between 5 and 6 were murdered in a school shooting in the Scottish town of Dunblane in 1996. The massacre stunned the country and led to a ban on the private ownership of all handguns in mainland Britain. What has been the reaction? Many in the area and across...
What do you call an ex- footb aller, a former trolley boy and a disillusioned stockbroker? The future of Scottish filmWords by Ann donald
Whenever you have to write a paper, a letter, or any other document for work or school, you probably head toward the computer. Now, most people reach for ___36___ (keyboard) faster than they pick up pens. In a Scottish primary school, however, Mr. Norman Lewis is taking a different...
You have only to raise this subject with your friends and acquaintances to find that the most unlikely people consider themselves introverts. It makes sense that so many introverts hide even from themselves. We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal— the omnipresent belief ...
Adam Smith, the 18th-century Scottish philosopher who penned An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, is widely considered the forefather of capitalism. However, Smith never used the word capitalism in his writings, using the phrase commercial enterprise instead. Capitalism ...
A Cumbrian born and bred, his native English Lake District has a special place in his heart, though he is at least equally happy in North Wales, the Scottish Highlands or the European Alps. Through his hiking, mountaineering, climbing and trail running adventures, Alex aims to inspire others...
The people who accept this framing do not really care about the facts that make Syria a completely different situation with a totally different scenario. They do not recognise that the people themselves in the Arab Spring were the ones demanding the fall of the regime, not “regime change”,...
The Scottish economistAdam Smithwas one of the first to question the wisdom of this arrangement. His "Wealth of Nations" was published in 1776, the same year Britain's American colonies declared independence in response to high taxes and restrictive trade arrangements.10 ...
But satire (even Swift's) really never moves people. It just clarifies and makes them think. So maybe it's ironic that satire is the only form of legal writing (I've even seen clever poetry in U.S. Tax Court pleadings) no one ever does--and should not try to do--in court ...