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...like fairies, wizards and dinosaurs, are an early-years rite of passage....
...The Scottish poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie’s brutal (and, arguably, wholly justified) review of Robert Macfarlane’s brand of nature writing might have caused some to pick up one of his books to see what...
...Gustawsson is already well known as the author of the “Roy & Castells” novels, which feature a Scottish crime profiler and a French true-crime writer who hunt serial killers (interviewed for a crime fiction...
...Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon said an independent Scotland would establish a new Scottish currency “as soon as possible” alongside its own central bank and debt management office, and seek a...
...To ears untrained in the nuances of Sufi trance music, they resembled a Scottish bagpipe ensemble playing free jazz, a formidable sonic proposition....
...Rival suppliers Eon, British Gas and Scottish Power have until this date to mount any legal challenges. Last week Centrica warned that the deal risks breaching EU state aid rules....
...“One of the coolest pieces I’ve made,” smiles Mbi. “It’s a lot of joy.” After Ma Vie he will be working on a Nelson Mandela musical for the Young Vic as well as a 2023 commission for Scottish Ballet....
...Built in 1893, the concert venue — where she had heard Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in 1923 — was a hub for contemporary culture....
...tide, may echo Bronze Age myths and rites such as the story of Andromeda, who is “led out to the sea shore at night and left there to keep the devastation of the human world at bay”....
...There, with others of my age, I underwent an initiation rite, an exacting procedure designed to make us into men “as strong as the crocodile”, as the elders liked to put it....
...Royal Ballet-trained Whitley’s team are working on an interpretation of Diaghilev’s The Rite of Spring....
...The 66-mile circuit has become a rite of passage for serious mountain runners....
...Ruth Davidson, who headed the Scottish Tories, was one of the most effective leaders in the British political firmament....
...The vice-chancellor sat at a dais decorated with a coat of arms and addressed the assembly in Latin, while tapping the graduates on their heads with an ancient piece of cloth (supposedly from the Scottish...
...Robert the Bruce’s computerised humiliation of Edward II’s troops in 1314 is now a rite of passage for most young Scots....
...With Labour, the Scottish National party and the Liberal Democrats also committed to opposing her deal, Mrs May’s majority would be wiped out....
...Marketing experts suspect part of the reason is that young adults today aren’t “growing up” in the way previous generations did, passing through traditional rites of adulthood (such as buying a home or having...
...Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet and Yorke Dance Project....
...its deal to buy rival Rite Aid....
...Yet the rush to read the funeral rites of liberalism is premature. It is a capacious and tenacious ideology with a rich, diverse history....
...Campaigning has become an annual summertime rite....
...And the odds must be that the English nationalism that drove the Brexit vote will succeed where Scottish nationalism has so far failed in reading the rites over the UK. philip.stephens@ft.com...
...Ms Merkel needs friends at home as well as abroad: her deputy – and coalition rival – Sigmar Gabriel this weekend slammed the chancellor’s handling of the refugee crisis (as well reading the last rites for...
...woodland rite....
...At the other end of the spectrum, a narrowing of identities drives constitutional separatist movements such as those of the Catalan and Scottish nationalists....
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