Nicola Sturgeon has laid out a list of demands she says would have to be met for the SNP to support a minority Labour government - with the Scottish First Minister insisting she would want to see Trident muclear weapons scrapped and more powers handed to Holyrood, as well as the granting of a second independence vote.
What happened to Grace Millane in a court in New Zealand, while devastating, wasnât new. Victim-blaming has been all the rage since Medusa was turned into a Gorgon for the crime of being raped by Poseidon. Women are constantly asking for it. Sometimes theyâre too damned sexy; sometimes too damn gobby. Either way, what are hot-blooded men supposed to do? The law has always understood both their sense of entitlement and the limits of their tolerance, and compensated with defences such as âprovocation by sexual infidelityâ.
Labour is promising to compensate an estimated 3.7 million women who believed they lost out financially due to changes in the state pension age if the party gains power in the General Election.
Last month when Tottenham Hotspur were struggling, and just before they really started to struggle, Mauricio Pochettino voiced his concern about having a docusoap camera in his face quite a lot of the time. It got in the way, it compromised him, it made him feel more like a producer than a coach. âI hope there is a happy ending,â he said of the series Made in Tottenham. Well, when it airs there wonât be, not for him.
Bob MacIntyre went from not wanting to be playing golf in May to being crowned as the European Tour Rookie of the Year seven months later thanks to a bus journey back from a shinty game making him ârealise what life is all aboutâ.
If, in the airbrushed world of modern football, it is still possible for a new and sour club rivalry to form, this cup fixture had the necessary credentials. There was geographical proximity â nine miles of Union Canal towpath link Linlithgow to Falkirk, to use a vintage measurement worthy of these two old settlements. Further, a narrative of big against small and grit against timidity is decipherable in both civic and sporting regards: Falkirk the tough and swelling town with its team not so long ago Premier League tenants, versus Linlithgow, a frilly burgh of artisan bread and the homely sixth-tier Rose.
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