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Trump win reiterates that the UK is ove

Posted By: November 14, 2016

 Marianne Taylor. HeraldScotland. Monday, Novemberr 14, 2016IT was enough, as my mum would say, to put you off your porridge. I speak, of course, of yesterday’s nauseating picture of the beaming Donald Trump and Nigel Farage giving the world the thumbs up. Farage was the first British politician the president elect chose to meet and the body language said it all: brothers […]

It’s hard to remember what poppies once stood for

Posted By: November 13, 2016

Dani Garavelli. The Scotsman. Saturday, November 5, 2016If you want to understand the extent to which the Armistice Day poppy has been stripped of dignity and meaning, then you need to look no further than the front page of Friday’s Daily Mail. On the top right-hand corner sat the ubiquitous scarlet tribute to Britain’s war dead; underneath it, a splash which – by […]

“Spain will NEVER renounce claim to Gibraltar’ Furious row over sovereignty of the Rock”

Posted By: November 13, 2016

SPAIN will never renounce its claim to Gibraltar, its government has declared as the furious row over the sovereignty of the Rock continues.By Katie Mansfield. Sunday Express (London). Wednesday, October 19, 2016Spain and Gibraltar continue to clash over the future of the RockJosé Manuel García-Margallo, the Spanish foreign minister, once again laid claim to the territory as he opened the door to […]

Top cop: Hurls not “offensive weapons”

Posted By: November 13, 2016

Ciara Quinn. Belfast Media.Thursday, November 10, 2016 A TOP West Belfast cop has said that a hurling stick is “not an offensive weapon” following the front page report in last week’s Andersonstown News.A clarification video and statement posted to the PSNI’s West Belfast social media Facebook site came after we reported that Shaws Road man and Lisburn and Castlereagh Council GAA […]

Foster Signals End of DUP by 2021

Posted By: November 13, 2016

John Coulter.Tribune (Dagenham, England). Monday,  November 7, 2016 John Coulter is a journalist for the Daily Star Democratic Unionist leader and Stormont First Minister Arlene Foster used her party’s annual conference to signal what will be the end of the DUP by 2021 – the centenary of the founding of Northern Ireland!Before readers accuse me of drinking Irish poteen, let’s […]

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