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Mike Small: Pondering being, nothingness and devolution in Scotland
“That ‘black hole’, that ‘nothing at all’, is the
“That ‘black hole’, that ‘nothing at all’, is the
LAST week, it was announced that 300,000 more children were plunged into absolute poverty in a single year at the height of the cost of living crisis. Amid soaring levels of hunger and food bank use, the Conservatives,
INCREASINGLY Britain looks like Absurdistan, a bizarre dysfunctional place where the centrist political parties converge on doing nothing about the ongoing genocide in Gaza...
‘WE are a people who were the victims of apartheid. We know what apartheid looks like … we will not be passive bystanders and watch the crimes that were visited on us being perpetrated on other people elsewhere,” said Cyril Ramaphosa...
REMEMBER that when you arrive in Edinburgh by train you are arriving into that of a novel, Walter Scott’s Waverley. A new chapter of the city’s story is a sad and poignant one.
IT’S an annual tradition to throw your hands up in the air when the New Year Honours list is announced. But this year’s list is particularly appalling.
I STAND behind no-one in my hatred of the royal family and everything they stand for. The creepy Christmas advert of the Princess of Wales and her children volunteering at a baby bank was
AS the bombing of Gaza recommences and eulogies for Henry Kissinger rain down, something called COP28 kicks off in Dubai, the capital of the United Arab Emirates and one of the world’s top 10 oil producers.
SUELLA Braverman’s departure – and subsequent rehiring of the smooth-faced former prime minister – is a momentous act of virtue-signalling by the beleaguered Tories, as they watch their popularity in the polls slide down into figures that mean inevitable electoral obliteration.
LAST week saw two events which revealed the sort of new politics that surround us. At one, the UK Prime Minister interviewed Elon Musk like a gushing fan-boy asking him softball questions, at another, the billionaire Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and the data analysis company Palantir (and huge funder of Trump) gave a lecture in Oxford.
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