“I hope to lead Scotland to independence,” Sturgeon told the BBC’s Andrew Marr on Sunday, adding that it would be “absurd and completely outrageous” for the Conservative government in London to go to court to block an independence referendum – a likely outcome if the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood passes …
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Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard’s team confirmed their status as Scottish champions on Sunday when fierce local rivals Celtic could only manage a scoreless draw away to Dundee United as Rangers completed their journey from financial ruin back to the summit of the league – ending the Hoops’ hopes of a record-breaking 10th successive title …
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I have learned, too late in life, that it is better to measure twice and cut once. At the end of Nicola Sturgeon’s borefest of deflective ‘don’t knows’ and ‘definitely I don’t remember that’, I felt like Denis Law denouncing Jim Baxter’s playing keepie-up against the World Champions. The Law …
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It’s not every day that a sitting leader of a government gets grilled live on TV for their citizens to watch. Even worse, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon did it over eight hours in front of the Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints. Despite the grand title, it …
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Sturgeon likened UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to a “cowering tim’rous beastie” – a line from the poem ‘To a Mouse’, about a scared mouse, by Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns – during an interview with the BBC on Sunday. The Scottish leader also accused Johnson of being “frightened of …
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