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What the Scottish people favour, by Duncan Sutherland
Open to comments. Ouvert aux commentaires. As a matter of interest, on the subject of the lamentable state of Westminster politics, I might as well mention to you that I was presented by chance with a snapshot providing an insight into that as I strolled up Whitehall in the direction of Trafalgar Square in the…
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La une du « National » d’aujourd’hui, par Duncan Sutherland
Comme le suggère cette une, le principal message du mouvement indépendantiste écossais à l’électorat écossais pour ces élections anticipées au Royaume-Uni n’est pas tant qu’il serait souhaitable que l’Écosse évite le Brexit, mais qu’elle le fasse pour ne pas subir de dommages économiques catastrophiquement inacceptables, le seul moyen certain d’échapper au Brexit étant de quitter…
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Today’s National front page, by Duncan Sutherland
Open to comments. As this front page suggests, the Scottish independence movement’s principal UK general-election message to the Scottish electorate is not so much that it would be desirable for Scotland to avoid Brexit as that it is necessary for it to do so in order not to suffer catastrophically unacceptable economic damage, the only…
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Le Brexit en 2 mots
Irlande, Écosse C’est quoi l’Union européenne ? Un marché Les 39 morts vietnamiens Rien ne nous oblige à être des gogos !
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Les Écossais sont contents
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Brexit : La cavalerie arrivée à temps !
Les parlementaires américains affirment qu’ils empêcheront le retour de la guerre civile en Irlande
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DES PRISONNIERS POLITIQUES EN ESPAGNE, par François Leclerc
Billet invité. Loin d’être terminée, la crise catalane va désormais s’exprimer sur trois terrains simultanément : les prétoires, les urnes et la rue. Elle atteint l’Espagne toute entière et acquiert à Bruxelles une dimension européenne qui ne peut plus être niée. La première ministre écossaise Nicola Sturgeon s’est exprimée hier soir sur Twitter : « le…
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The Best Laid Schemes (Part 2), by Duncan Sutherland
Billet invité. As may be readily gathered from the cartoon on the front page of today’s issue of The New European, which is what Brexiteers refer to as a Remoaning rag, the notion of halting the Brexit process appears to be gaining traction, at least among the chattering classes. How realistic might this prospect be,…
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Where There’s a Will (Part 2), by Duncan Sutherland
Billet invité. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already declared that she is determined that there will be a further Scottish independence referendum and at a time chosen by the Scottish Parliament.
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Where There’s a Will (Part 1), by Duncan Sutherland
Billet invité. Improbable though it may seem, it happens that Guy Verhofstadt, who is lead Brexit negotiator for the European Parliament, envisaged immediately after the UK EU referendum result that Scotland would be able to hold an independence referendum before Brexit took effect (such as the Scottish First Minister is proposing) so that that country…
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Back to the Drawing Board, by Duncan Sutherland
Billet invité. On Sunday evening, when it had been fairly confidently expected that UK Prime Minister Theresa May would be invoking Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon on Tuesday, thus initiating negotiations for the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union yesterday, news suddenly began to trickle in to the effect that there…
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Le Premier ministre écossais communique
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DU DÉMANTÈLEMENT DE L’EUROPE A SON IMPLOSION, par François Leclerc
Billet invité. Inexorablement, la crise politique européenne s’approfondit. La liste des partis classés à gauche ou au centre gauche atteints par une fracture interne s’allonge : le Labour britannique et le PSOE l’ont initié, le Parti démocrate italien et Syriza les y rejoignent.
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Ah, the endless complexities of English identity!, by Duncan Sutherland
Billet invité. À propos de Le temps qu’il fait le 30 juin 2016. Ah, the endless complexities of English identity as defined by place and social rank but especially social rank in its relationship to forms of language, which function not only as communication, of course, but as mechanisms for defining and identifying who belongs…
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Scotland – « A Terrible Beauty Is Born », by Duncan Sutherland
Billet invité. Since Sunday morning, when the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, answered a question on a BBC Scotland television programme known as Politics Scotland concerning a House of Lords advice note which had been circulated on the subject of legislative consent in relation to legislation giving effect to Brexit which would have to…