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...Mendelssohn’s Symphony No 3, the Scottish, had overcast gloom to spare, but the storm was not very stormy, nor the Scots snap to the rhythms very snappily Scottish....
...David Hume, the major philosopher and historian who serves as the linchpin of Whatmore’s book, was a Scot....
...He offers not a mass trawl of Weidenfeld’s thousands of titles but selected episodes framed by 19 landmark books, from Nabokov’s censorship-busting Lolita to Antonia Fraser’s best-selling Mary, Queen of Scots...
...Take a break from the news Find out how a patents expert, a music professor and a software engineer set about cracking a 445-year-old code to reveal the secrets of Mary Queen of Scots....
...In the 1820s, hundreds of Gregor MacGregor’s fellow Scots ploughed their savings into his semi-scam of a territory, Poyais, on the coast of Nicaragua, or opted to settle there....
...“There’s a sector-wide malaise, but Barclays suffers from being in a peer group of one in the UK market,” says Richard Marwood, head of UK equities at Royal London Asset Management....
...More Scots fought against the Jacobites at Culloden than for the prince, including Highland clans such as the Sinclairs....
...Richard Lochhead, the Scottish minister for just transition, employment and fair work, dropped his support for Forbes hours after welcoming her decision to join the race....
...The Scots have proposed a complicated returnable bottle scheme as part of establishing their independence from Westminster....
...Gray, a Scots-Irish designer of independent means, had no need to employ an architect. In fact this was an apartment she designed for a male architect, her friend and probable lover Jean Badovici....
...John Lloyd writes that “Scots in business, inventors, economists and philosophers have changed the world” in the 18th and 19th centuries (“The push for independence is putting off Scots business”, Opinion...
...Even so, major works, such as her operas Mary, Queen of Scots and A Christmas Carol, date from this period. Musgrave has always been ahead of her time....
...Every Scot can agree, at least, with that stirring call to arms against the English foe, “Scots Wha Hae”....
...This means she gets beheaded twice — first as Anne Boleyn, then as Mary, Queen of Scots — and finally gets her own back as Elizabeth I ordering the execution of her favourite, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex...
...Yesterday, City Insider spotted another speedy boarder: Richard Griffiths, the former Wales rugby union player and founder of broker Evolution, has taken a 4.5 per cent stake....
...The 63-year-old Scot knows she will have to do far more than fly the flag for gender equality. Her task is a daunting one....
...A healthy 30 per cent or so of Scots has to be won back to the cause of the union: the skilled working-class, public sector workers and retirees....
...On the contrary, he gives air time to the view of Richard Tuck, a fellow Cambridge historian, that “it was the EU that was underpinned by ‘imperial nostalgia’, as an ‘alternative stage upon which these old...
...But the Scot gives nothing away on the prospects of another independence vote. “We just have to wait and see how that plays out,” she says....
...Perhaps the gutsy Scot can recover the bank’s millions from Brigade Capital and the other creditors calling “no give backs”....
...In the same symposium, Richard Murphy, professor of international economics at City University, advises the creation of a new currency, the attraction of financial services and an industrial strategy tailored...
...After graduating from the University of St Andrews he started his career as an officer in the Scots Guards. But there is another reason why he likes the tapestry: “I often look at it in meetings....
...First, he is a proud Scot, who often draws on Scottish themes for inspiration (even if the music that comes out sounds entirely international)....
...Labour’s Scottish leader Richard Leonard said this week that the party would make no pact or deals with the SNP....
...Eight months after quitting the clothing retailer after losing a tussle for control with founder Julian Dunkerton, the Scot has taken up the top job at Saga....
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