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As a Scot who grew up and spent much of his adult life in England and as a former British diplomat who has worked on European Community

By Stoker Vote Joe, get Bernie? That’s not what the voters signed up to. Certainly not those swing voters who wanted rid of The Donald,...

By Lynda Goetz Many, many years ago when I was still a teenager, I found a quote from Maurice Maeterlinck in a collection of quotes and...

By Dr Jehad Al-Omari My earliest memories, like all children perhaps, comes in flashes with considerable blank periods between them,...

“Less is more” is my second favourite aphorism. In a management training career spanning thirty years, I must have listened to and given

Geert de Kremer’s challenge By Dr Mark Nicholson As a boy I used to play a game called Risk, where one tried to take control of the world...

By Rachel Woolf Comparisons between the Coronavirus pandemic and World War Two have been very appealing to a prime minister who wishes to...

On 10 June 2016 I wrote the following in an email from France to some friends in the UK:“We voted last week.

Now that Brexit is accomplished, more or less, we face Scoxit; the liberation of Scotland from the clutches of the United Kingdom.

Whenever you mention Gypsies in the Arab world the images that spring to mind are of music and dancing, fortune tellers and beggars,