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Richard Bath: The peddlers of economic fantasy
STUCK in a Far North hotel room in midweek with a few hours to spare, I looked for something to read and came across Anthony Trollope’s 1875 satirical masterpiece The Way We Live Now.
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Aidan Smith: The man who talked too much
I’M not just saying this because he’s lost his job, but my favourite interview subject of last year – the guy who was insightful, provocative and funny, who displayed awareness of the world beyond his sport and revealed interesting personal hinterland, who told the saddest story I heard and then drove me right to my front door – was Kenny Shiels.
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Andrew Smith: The price to be paid for Hearts
HEALTH scares are the recognised catalysts for ending risky behaviours.
6 commentsLiz Smith: Consensus is growing that we need change
SOMETHING very interesting is happening in the world of Scottish education.
Comment: Tucker’s Bank exit clears decks for Carney
AS A Bank of England lifer, Paul Tucker will sorely miss the Old Lady when he leaves in the autumn. But will the bank miss him?
Jess Salway: Give savers a break and set NS&I free
ANOTHER week, yet another round of reductions in savings account rates. Long-suffering savers are now accustomed to the absence of decent cash returns, but they’re also finding out that some cuts are deeper than others.
Comment: The future of the high street
FEW ready reckoners on our economic wellbeing are more closely followed than high-street shopping.
Comment: A closer look at Stephen Hester’s RBS exit
Stephen Hester was hailed for saving RBS but his exit may be down to political expediency, write Terry Murden and Martin Flanagan
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Leaders: New points to ponder | Happy feat
MUCH of the debate about whether Scotland should be independent is all too familiar.
Euan McColm: Cameron, tax avoidance and the G8
THERE’s nobody we hate more, except perhaps television presenters of the 1970s and people who disagree with us on the constitution, than tax avoiders, is there?
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Malcolm Graham: Vigilant police won’t turn blind eye
POLICING adapts to the changing world in which we live – and the way that criminals exploit those changes.
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Dani Garavelli: Snooper’s charter threat to freedom
MAYBE it’s the Assange effect, but my first instinct was to dismiss Edward Snowden as an attention-seeking egotist.
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Drumlanrig: Owen Paterson | Harriet Harman
DESPITE being a member of David Cameron’s English public schooled Cabinet, UK energy secretary Owen Paterson was keen to emphasise his Scottish credentials when he appeared at Holyrood’s rural affairs committee last week.
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Andrew Wilson: Timing is everything
PATIENCE”, according to St Augustine, “is the companion of wisdom”. It is an important thought.
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Gerald Warner: Iran’s elections and the West
ELECTION fever is always an elusive emotion: it is seldom found among electorates but is endemic among the political class and its media parasites.
Analysis: ‘Change hearts and minds, not statutes’
A FEW days ago, some Scottish Government figures were released. They revealed a rising number of homophobic and Islamophobic attacks being carried out in Scotland.
Davide Tentori: Main focus on economic growth
TOMORROW the heads of government of the G8 countries will gather at Lough Erne, Northern Ireland.
John Huggan: Tiger Woods toughs it out
AS YOU’D expect of a three-time winner, Tiger Woods has America’s national championship all figured out.
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Comment: Start-up Scots need get-up-and-grow
FOR more than 40 years Scots business leaders and policymakers have agonised over our record in business growth and entrepreneurship. Why were we trailing the UK in business start-up and survival rates?
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Can Ed Miliband pass the credibility test?
If the Labour leader is to become prime minister he must work on his geeky image as well as his policies, according to Eddie Barnes
2 commentsLeaders: Police must get priorities right
WHEN Scotland’s eight regional police forces were merged into a single national force in April, there were a number of reassurances sought and given. Prominent among these was that the local aspect of policing would not be lost.
Euan McColm: Cameron fails to explain UK’s benefits
ANYONE listening should have been left in absolutely no doubt: David Cameron is passionate about the United Kingdom. He said as much.
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Comment: Rugby’s future bleak if mismatches remain
THE article “School scraps rugby games over risk to small players” which appeared in Scotland on Sunday (News, 2 June) raises some very important issues.
The timing of puberty, and consequent physical maturation, has always led to a massive variation in size and strength of schoolboys of the same age.
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Dani Garavelli: Mental health talk saves lives
IT’S odd, really, that there should be so much stigma attached to mental illness. One in four of us, after all, have first-hand experience of it. And the rest have surely encountered it in family, friends, neighbours or colleagues.
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Gerald Warner: Cameron backs a loser on Syria
‘WHEN I see the official Syrian opposition, I see a group of people who have declared that they are in favour of democracy, human rights and a future for minorities, including Christians, in Syria,” David Cameron told the House of Commons last Monday.
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Drumlanrig: Gag but no whip at Tories’ Blue Review
JACKSON Carlaw kicked off the traditional Scottish Conservative “Blue Review” on Friday night of the party’s annual conference this weekend.
Andrew Wilson: New investment shows Scots progress
THE ease with which we rush to condemn public service endeavour is one of the less edifying habits of public discourse. Whenever errors are made or performance dips, public opinion is quick to scapegoat, condemn or criticise.
1 commentEddie Barnes: Darling’s dilemma as Tories applaud
ALISTAIR Darling yesterday received a standing ovation from delegates at the Scottish Conservative conference. He did not look entirely overjoyed.
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Richard Bath: Temptations Celtic players face
The view from here is always a skewed one in which domestic silverware and history loom large, but we shouldn’t confuse sentiment with reality.
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Aidan Smith: Sun sets on Leith cup dreams
I SHOULD have known the 2013 Scottish Cup final wasn’t going to work out.
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Scotland on Sunday cartoon - 02/06/13
Ruth Davidson fights back at her critics in today’s cartoon
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Comment: Hiring former spy shows keen on clean-up
THE hiring of a former spymaster to the board of HSBC is a sign of the times in more ways than one.
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Chitra Ramaswamy: Big digs at the allotment
APPARENTLY C has “amazing” news for me. Oh goody, I think. The car has been sold. No, even better, a surprise holiday on a Greek island. No, better still: a lifelong subscription to Dogs Monthly. Or the jackpot: a first edition of Anne of Green Gables.
Analysis: Training can reduce injuries on pitch
MY YOUNGER son is doing a gap year in Sydney where he is working as a PE assistant in one of the big fee-paying schools. They take schools rugby seriously in Sydney, so the experience has been something of a revelation.
4 commentsClaire Black: When I said science I was using that term loosely
IT WAS with a pang of something a little unexpected that I read about research revealing that being loud and opinionated is more persuasive than actually being right.
Fordyce Maxwell: Give me a chopping board, my trusty blade and a melon
SLICING and filleting a melon the other afternoon for the fruit monsters – granddaughters Ebba, five, and Isla, two, eat fruit in preference to almost anything except Liz’s home-made ice cream – I thought of the vet cum bestselling author James Herriot.
Bill Jamieson: Signs of decline can be reversed
WHAT is the state of Scotland? Over the past few months there have been growing signs of recovery.
Ruth Davidson on her critics and Conservatism
SO, RUTH Davidson, whose backbenchers are the hardest to handle: yours or David Cameron’s?
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Euan McColm: Mercer may play part in Cameron downfall
WHEN Tory MP Patrick Mercer resigned from his party on Friday over allegations he took cash to ask parliamentary questions it was suggested David Cameron might crack open a bottle of fizz to celebrate.
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Comment: Currency question key to referendum
BRIBERY, fear and corruption were vital ingredients in the passage of the 1707 Act of Union.
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Drumlanrig: Ambassador, you will be spoiling us
SNP ministers have finally found a new example to demonstrate the economic riches that will flow to Scotland if it backs independence next year: a boom in diplomats.
5 commentsAndrew Wilson: Contemplating Catholic controversy
EVERY time I hear any Scottish Catholic, lay or clergy, famous or anonymous, complain about hostility towards them in their own country I pause. It causes me, as it should cause all of us, some pain.
Dani Garavelli: Consumer in training
I REMEMBER being quite chuffed when I received my Bounty pack after giving birth to my first child.
John Huggan: The ‘anchoring’ debate takes off
“I could never use a long putter. Every time I went to take it out of the bag I’d be reminded what a bad putter I was” – Seve Ballesteros
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Gerald Warner: Wind of change is blowing
THE climate is changing – but not in the style prognosticated by the global warmist fanatics.
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Leaders: Tories must unite around Davidson
RUTH Davidson’s no-nonsense message to her critics, expressed in her interview today with our political editor, Eddie Barnes, is a most welcome development in the slow and painful process of rehabilitating the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
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Comment: misogyny of two-way nightclub toilet mirror
THE world can be a depressing place in which to be a woman sometimes; if we’re not being told we’re too fat or too thin, or too compliant or too stroppy, we’re being surreptitiously viewed through a two-way mirror in a nightclub toilet.
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John Huggan: Racism in the history of golf in US
GOLF’S greatest-ever player, Jack Nicklaus, happens to be colour blind.
2 commentsAzeem Ibrahim: The changing nature of terror
IT’S always once they get to the back of the police station that they realise what they’ve done.
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