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Argyle Armada author Mark Johnson pops into the Café to talk about his latest book, Spitting in the Soup, a timely counterblast to the notion held by some that doping in sport has always been seen as being evil and has always been fought against. We...

“In a democracy it is occasionally necessary to defer to the wishes of the majority,” observed Queen Victoria’s favourite prime minister, the old “Hebrew conjuror” Benjamin Disraeli.  It is a lesson that many on the losing side of Britain’s 23 June referendum...

In November 2010 the Ministerial Working Group on the Scots Language delivered its report to the Scottish Parliament. Discussing the promotion of Scots in the educational system, the report noted that the pervasive lack among teachers and the general...

(Washington Post) – Seen from London, Edinburgh, Oxford or other havens of the cosmopolitan British elite, this country’s vote next month on whether to quit the European Union may appear to be a relatively easy choice. Not a day goes by when a foreign...

Nigel Farage's best hopes of electoral triumph rest on Lincolnshire and East Anglia, where a failing economy and isolation have boosted Ukip's appeal. But scratch under the surface, and the party's success looks rather more unstable For all that it...