GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence by John Lloyd
Forceful but flawed case against home rule for Scotland
WISHFUL THINKING? Scottish independence rally, 2018
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
GIVEN the continued lack of political appetite for a well-informed, reasoned debate about Scottish independence, John Lloyd’s new book on the topic is welcome.
By no means a dispassionate summary of the arguments — it comes out solidly against independence — it does at least give space to some of the salient points usually drowned out amid the soundbites and banalities.
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