Rusland-Oekraïne oorlog: Putin warns military expansion in Finland and Sweden ‘would demand reaction’ – live
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Former Police Scotland officer hopes ‘torturous’ tribunal win will help women
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A former armed response officer awarded nearly £1m by Police Scotland over victimisation said the past few years had been “torturous” and no amount of compensation could make up for the pain experienced. Rhona Malone ...
Police Scotland pays out nearly £1m to ex-officer over sexism case
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Police Scotland has paid out nearly £1m in compensation to a former firearms officer victimised by “horrific” boys’ club sexism in the force’s elite armed response unit. The force’s chief constable, Iain Livingstone, ...
In Scotland, the SNP still reign supreme – but the Conservatives have fallen from grace
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It shouldn’t be too hard to find a decent post-election shindig in Scotland this weekend – unless, dit is, you’re looking to celebrate with members of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist party. In 2016 a Tory tide...
Who rules the waves? In my part of Scotland that’s far from clear
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The war in Ukraine has made the Firth of Clyde busy again. We used to have neighbours – he died, she moved away – who could remember the view from their house when it was filled with shipping during the second world w...
Is Wales following Scotland in a bid for independence?
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Wales – poor, peripheral, reliably Labour voting – does not really figure in the political imaginations of Britain’s chattering class. To the extent that its politics are noticed at all, it is largely through the pris...
The big picture: waiting on a road to nowhere in 1990s Czech Republic
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In 1993, the photographer Robin Graubard fell into conversation with a group of women in a park outside the UN building in New York. The women were talking about how no American paper was properly covering the war in ...
Commonwealth rift in Caribbean as re-election of Lady Scotland challenged
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Patricia Scotland’s hopes of being re-elected Commonwealth secretary general are under threat, after Jamaica’s foreign minister, Kamina Johnson-Smith, announced that she was challenging Scotland for the post. The deci...