The Economist would say that, wouldn't it? The house-journal of the City of London's republic of nowhere is a world apart from Adam Smith's
"Now, since St Mungo catched herrings in the Clyde, what was ever like to gar us flourish like the sugar and tobacco trade? Will ony body tell me that
Before a major general election in 1966 an "independent voters' initiative" was launched by German writers and artists supporting Willy Brandt's challenge to the federal
I Brown, Mack, Kerner
In 1975 the rector of Edinburgh University and his associates produced a symposium which if little read (tiny print, many pages, variable authors) staked its claim
I Judgment on Murdoch
When Tommy Sheridan, black-browed and lantern-jawed, confronted the press outside the Court of Session in Edinburgh on 4 August 2006 after his libel-case victory against the
I Clap hands, here comes Charlie!
In all the proliferating articles about English-German relations ahead of the month-long soccer world cup which kicks off in Germany on 9 June 2006,
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When Gordon Brown first approached the national question and there is a history he didn't home in on the revival of democratic political thought in Scotland, notably
I Separate cities
The rivalry between Edinburgh and Glasgow is almost as old as Scotland itself, and has varied with the centuries. Glasgow, before and after the Act of Union
The champion laid out cold
Before all the programmes were sold
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Kingsley Amis's David and Goliath is unlikely to be taken to heart by Britains journalists,
The seriousness of Robin Cook's last phase conscience of the left isn't putting it too high wasn't totally in character. I saw much of
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There are only two British news stories about Germany: new Nazis and old Nazis. If the small Bavarian town of Landsberg is known at all it will be because
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Posterity may be shot, like a bullet in a tube, by atmospheric pressure from Winchester to Newcastle: that is a fine result to have among our hopes; but the
