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...For Devine, the historian, Scotland’s first energy windfall was grievously misused....
...A highlight is the Devine Grapes Body Ritual (€120), a process involving a gentle exfoliation with grape seeds, a cool body wrap and an aromatherapy massage with vine-leaf oil....
...“Boris Johnson is the best recruiting sergeant for Scottish nationalism that the SNP have had since Margaret Thatcher,” said Tom Devine, history professor at the University of Edinburgh....
...“Scotland, I would argue, contributed even more to the national wealth than England during the Industrial Revolution,” said Tom Devine, emeritus professor of history at the University of Edinburgh....
...The effect of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s policies was rough, doing little to relieve post-industrial misery, smashing deference to Scotland’s difference....
...According to the historian Sir Tom Devine, the “centralising drive of Margaret Thatcher eroded Scotland’s distinctiveness”, too, and provoked today’s leftwing Scottish nationalism....
...And then there was Margaret Thatcher. Her influence can also be overstated but clearly she mattered greatly....
...Former MPs Elliot Morley and Eric Illsley were also jailed after confessing to fiddling expenses, while Jim Devine was jailed after being convicted by a jury....
...DAME COMMANDER, DBE Margaret Beckett, MP. Angela Watkinson, MP....
...Prof Devine believes that the recession has forestalled any surge in Scots’ enthusiasm for going it alone....
...Nigel Griffiths, deputy Commons leader, and Jim Devine, another aide, had already quit earlier in the week....
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