Westminster's word is "final" and there will be no currency union for an independent Scotland, leading Scottish Lib Dem Danny Alexander said yesterday.
The Chief Treasury Secretary ruled out a deal to share the sterling before a bevy of pension fund managers in Edinburgh.
But economists have suggested the matter could already be out of Westminster's hands.
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent


