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Money for nothing
There’s a Harry & Paul sketch in which Harry Enfield plays Tony Blair on his first day as a part-time adviser to the investment bank ‘Lorgan Stanley’. They’ve forgotten they appointed him when he stood down as Prime Minister and are taken by surprise when he turns up at reception.
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Friday is the new Saturday: the Scottish Government’s answer to the ‘new normal’?
Not one aspect of our day-to-day lives has been left untouched by emergence of Covid-19 and the subsequent restrictions implemented to curb its grip on society. In the early days of the pandemic, trips to the supermarket became mission critical as we scoured shelves for the last remnants of toilet roll, flour, and other precious commodities.
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For richer, for poorer. Till death do us part?
Cooperation agreements between political parties may be a bit like a marriage but as we know, half of all marriages end in divorce.
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And the band played on
As the newly elected First Minister of Scotland was announcing her Cabinet, a picture re-emerged on social media of her with some of the party’s stalwarts back when they were young.
