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Education is a very personal project. Teachers can teach, and can guide, but for education to be worthwhile in achieving its aims, the effort has to be made by the learner.

WE ALL SUFFER selective amnesia, ‘rose tinted glasses’ if you like. For instance, the past may be a foreign land and I recall it sort of worked. Britain was a genuine envy of the world. If we go back…

To his supporters, Trump’s ‘America First’ policy seems filled with revolutionary promise. To the rest of America and the wider world it sounds like a frightening risk, perhaps pushing America to the brink of crisis.

At long last the constitutional question will stop being all-determining in Scotland: it will cease to be the be-all and end-all of Scottish politics and elections.

IN A RECENT YouTube video, historian David Starkey delivered a blistering critique of modern British conservatism, drawing stark parallels between the political landscapes of the 1970s and today.

Everybody does indeed want to save the world. Everyone wants to be a superhero in the world. But fewer want to tidy it up.

Funding self-righteous movies is a self-serving circus, but it’s not entertaining and real South Asian communities face subsistence living if the likes of DiCaprio are successful.

“If it is sad how little Yousaf understands about Scotland, it is shocking to realise how little he must know about his own culture.” writes Hamish Gobson in his review of ‘A history of the Muslim world.’

Justice is meant not only to be done, but seen to be done. Many people are voicing concerns about this case. Not just the important people. Not just the experts. Regular people too.

“The chemistry between Lively and her co-star Justin Beldoni is non-existent but compensated by Blake Lively’s passion for Blake Lively. That chemistry leaps off the screen.”