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The evolution of the Scottish nationalist leadership into cheerleaders for Nato has led the party to betray its pledges on Palestine and social spending, writes COLL McCAIL
While riding the No 3 bus in Glasgow MATT KERR has ample time to dissect the moribund Scottish Labour decline into near oblivion and watch intriguing bus passenger dynamics
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WHEN I was a student of English at Leeds University half a century ago, we studied a course on the “American Renaissance” in literature of the mid-1900. Among the prescribed oracles of this era were the “Transcendentalists” — writers from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Henry David Thoreau, and to Herman Melville and Walt Whitman.
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