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Allan Massie: Indy debate should follow Kirk lead
Nationalists and unionists would do well to heed respect shown by both sides to prepare ground for reconciliation, writes Allan Massie
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Brian Wilson: SNP plans border on the ridiculous
SNP policy on immigration would inevitably lead to the setting up of checks and controls, writes Brian Wilson
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Emma Cowing: Fertility drive is offensive to women
KATE Garraway, her off Daybreak who is married to Derek Draper, is fronting a new campaign called Get Britain Fertile. It features Garraway made up to look like she’s about 102, sporting an enormous baby bump.
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Matt Qvortrup: Emotions will rule on independence
The case either for or against independence will be won not by economic reason but by matching people’s passions, writes Matt Qvortrup
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Emma Cowing: Fertility drive is offensive to women
KATE Garraway, her off Daybreak who is married to Derek Draper, is fronting a new campaign called Get Britain Fertile. It features Garraway made up to look like she’s about 102, sporting an enormous baby bump.
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Michael Fry: Wagner remains meister of controversy
On the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth, opinion remains deeply divided over whether the quality of his music outweighs his unpalatable views on Jews, writes Michael Fry
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Eddie Barnes: George Osborne and IMF go to-to-toe
FOR the past few weeks, George Osborne has been getting his annual health check.
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The Scotsman cartoon - 22/05/2013
First Minister Alex Salmond and Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon launch the economic case for Scottish independence, but does it raise more questions than it answers?
Leaders: Salmond must flesh out case | Andy’s granny
IF THE document on the Scottish economy published yesterday by Alex Salmond was an attempt to regain the independence initiative after a series of set-backs, it looks to have been at best a damp squib and at worst a failure.
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David Martin: Everyone can help ease Syria crisis
There is little the European Union can do to bring a military solution to the crisis in Syria. But that does not mean we should sit back and wring our hands in anguish.
Comment:Scottish independence and pensions outlook
Pensions are rapidly looking like being the key vote-determining issue of the independence referendum. And for the SNP right now, it looks like being a real killer. Unless Alex Salmond can come up with some really convincing evidence and arguments to show that pensions will be not just safe, but also better, in an independent Scotland, then he will lose the referendum.
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The Scotsman cartoon - 21/05/2013
Swivel-eyed loons or not, embattled Prime Minister David Cameron needs to shore up all the support he can get from grassroots Tories
Analysis: Small but significant step for Kirk
To a slightly bemused watching world, the pace with which the Church of Scotland is facing up to issues of sexuality seems painfully slow.
David Maddox: Independence referendum will leave emotional scars
WITH the latest UK government paper out yesterday saying why Scottish independence really is not a good idea, it is easy to forget the emotional side in the trading and counter-trading of facts and non-facts across the two sides of the debate.
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Jackie Kemp: Guantanamo bloody stain on US values
Obama’s broken promises may prove a turning point in support for US, says Jackie Kemp
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Hugh Reilly: Teaching profession needs to man up
When I joined Strathclyde Police in 1975, many of my older colleagues hailed from the Highlands or one of the many Hebridean gulag archipelagos.
3 commentsBrian Wilson: Millport marine centre must be saved
On one Scottish island, there is a centre of academic excellence which predates the University of the Highlands and Islands by fully a century. That island is Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde.
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Brian Taylor: Labour’s home rule battle
In the last of our series in association with the University of Glasgow’s Vox Populi lectures, Brian Taylor looks back at the referendum of 1997
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Tiffany Jenkins: Why the fascination with death?
Celebrity photographer Rankin has snapped the most attractive and famous people in the world: Kate Moss, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig and George Clooney are just some of the beautiful people he has immortalised in their prime.
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Leaders: Kirk’s gay ministers ruling | Drink proposals
Religious convictions, because they derive from faith in the Word of God as revealed in the Bible, are the most unshakeable of beliefs.
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Brian Monteith: Free speech right applies to Farage
If Scotland is ‘better’ than the rest of the UK, then Salmond should be condemning Ukip’s treatment here, writes Brian Monteith
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Lesley Riddoch: Kirk gay debate must show courage
The General Assembly has the chance to show that it too can take hard decisions without flinching, writes Lesley Riddoch
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Comment: Scotland needs free cancer drug access
Last week at the Scottish Parliament, the presence of bowel cancer patient Maureen Fleming at First Minister’s Questions presented every single MSP in the chamber with a challenge: why are patients in Scotland three times less likely than patients in England to get access to cancer medicines, prescribed by their doctor but not routinely funded through the NHS?
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Leaders: Good reasons for demonisation of bankers
Has the time come to halt the demonisation of bankers? Outgoing Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King thinks so. His point is not simply that it has gone on long enough and that it is time to move on.
Jane Devine: Students right to demand high quality
When my aunt’s pedigree dog entered into a clandestine relationship with a farm collie, my aunt was left with nice offspring she didn’t want and couldn’t sell for the type of fee they might have otherwise attracted had the sire been properly selected.
Comment: Epilepsy is not just a week-long issue
PURPLE is the colour of Epilepsy Week and that is the colour which will be most visible this week as fundraisers for epilepsy charities call on the public for much needed support.
Legal: Presidential potential that’s more than sum of his parts
There’s a broad appeal to the Law Society of Scotland’s Bruce Beveridge, finds John Forsyth
Bill Jamieson: Banks: emerging from the bottom drawer
It’s bottom-drawer rummage time again. Remember those bank shares that made you wince every time you checked them? The ones with 90 per cent falls that dragged down your investment performance, that paid no dividends and were useful only to mitigate capital gains tax liability?
Farming: Owners of sheep-worrying dogs need bitten
Ben was about the poorest sheepdog around, and I can say that from pretty close observation as he was the shepherd’s dog on my father’s farm.
4 commentsFrom the archive: How wind, tide and wave could power Scotland seven times over - 20 May, 2010
THE windfall in Scotland’s grasp from offshore renewable energy has been unveiled for the first time in a major new report that reveals it could power the country seven times over within four decades.
Cash Q&A: How do I help relatives and save for retirement?
I AM nearing retirement age and with my grandchildren going to university, my wife and I are finding that we are having to dip into our savings to help out our extended family members.
Gerry Hassan: Worlds apart on question of union
There’s a storm brewing as the UK reassesses its place in Europe and Scotland reconsiders its part in the UK, writes Gerry Hassan
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Stephen McGinty: Going to town on Positano
The Italian ‘dream place’ and its famous hotel popularised by John Steinbeck 60 years ago still casts its spell over celebrity and non-celebrity guests alike, writes Stephen McGinty
Alf Young: Treasury will be trouble for the SNP
If currency plan A is just a convenience to smooth transition, the rUK will play hardball, warns Alf Young
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Lori Anderson: Chanel exhibition makes scents
Some may claim No 5 ‘perfumed the 20th century’. Lori Anderson looks at the facts and finds this is far from fragrant nonsense
Comment: Tide needs to turn for wave power industry
The debate over the viability and future of wind power in Scotland is omnipresent. But another form of renewable energy could soon become part of the national energy revolution – wave and tidal energy.
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Leaders: Salmond should stand up for free speech
In A speech he made in March last year, Alex Salmond cited Scotland’s first first minister Donald Dewar who said devolution was about more than our politics and our laws.
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Erikka Askeland: Old donkey of truth still has legs
For the first time, I watched an episode of The Jeremy Kyle Show last week. I’m not proud. Suffice to say I was hungover and alone in a hotel room, with a few leisurely hours to kill before I met a friend for lunch.
Comment: Taxing questions for complicit governments
IS YOUR business guilty of “false delocalisation”? That’s the fancy EU jargon for the creative tax avoidance schemes engineered by multinational companies such as Google and Amazon.
1 commentFrom the archive: Irish schools and coronation flags: commons’ debate - 18 May, 1911
CAPTAIN Craig asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether, where the managers of National schools in Ireland were so disposed, they would be permitted to fly the Union flag on school buildings for the King’s coronation.
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Stephen Jardine: Put more Scots back in the mix
What do flaming foreigners do for us? When it comes to food and drink, “a lot” is the answer. Apart from supporting exports worth £5.31 billion, foreign workers here play a big role.
John Curtice: EU is not high on agenda
IT IS not surprising that we might expect Scotland’s views to be different.
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Fiona Shepherd: Ivor Novellos - nothing too exciting
THE winners of this year’s Ivor Novello awards are worthy and woolly but not really anything to get terribly excited about.
Eddie Barnes: Independence debate goes heavyweight
“IT depends whether there’s a good film on,” replied one MSP yesterday on whether they would be tuning in to last night’s TV debate.
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Analysis: Bank’s profitability journey important
THIS announcement is a substantial blow for the employment market in Edinburgh and Scotland because of the numbers involved and in the sense that, to date, significant job losses at RBS have been in the investment banking subsidiaries elsewhere and not substantially focused on its corporate headquarters.
Comment: Long–term hope for Branson’s plan
WHEN Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic announced last year that it was going head-to-head with British Airways in the short-haul market, the move was meant to help boost its wider ambitions.
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