In 1874, France was reeling from losing the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune uprising, yet it was the site of two contrasting art exhibits: one which hewed to the old themes of realistic (if heightened) representation of religious, historic, and pastoral scenes (the Paris Salon), ...
While Ardern’s star was considered to be waning – domestically, at least – ahead of a general election later this year, Sturgeon’s departure has been seen as problematic for the Scottish National Party: her bickering would-be successors lack her political stature and other parties in ...
Later on,my friend told me that it is a standard American greeting.I was too thrilled to believe her.Her words could not convince me at all.So I did a research on google.com.To my surprise,there are over 60 thousand web pages containing “Long time no see.” This sentence has been ...
Results of the 2015 general election in the UK Fast-forward to June of this year, a month after Ed Miliband had resigned as Labour leader after suffering huge losses to the Scottish National Party (clickhereto read more about the SNP) in the 2015 general election. The opinion polls had gre...
July 13 I last wrote to you. It was the day My Beloved died.Memories – sort of You know – no you don’t unless you have travelled with me and My Beloved- but My Beloved would talk to Silva, our Chrysler 300, circa 2013 and all the others of our previous cars. She might say,...
your utmost to destroy a given party's reputation and credibility.Scottish Labour learned this in 2007 when, despite general government fire-bombing, sustained predictions of the Ten Plagues of Egypt and a largely hostile press, the SNP pulled out its first win in a Scottish parliament election....
This was the last straw for many of his critics, as they had made similar claims after his specialSticks and Stones. They believe his claims of listening to them and being willing to try and make jokes that are less hurtful to the LGBTQ community are disingenuous. They think he is using...
And then, of course, there’s the anxiety and anger that comes from reading the current political news and surviving an election that was something of a nightmare, even by U.S. standards. And books do help us survive, don’t they? Along with the arts in general, combined, perhaps, ...
Byline: THERESA MAYIWAS very glad to be back in Northumberland last week, meeting residents and community leaders in Berwick-upon-Tweed with the energetic local campaigner Anne-Marie Trevelyan before driving up to Edinburgh for the Scottish Conservative Conference.One of the key things on the ...
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