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SNP set for a European volte-face

The European Union referendum looks a little different in Scotland than, I suspect, it looks elsewhere in the United Kingdom right now. That is not just because of a pretty solid political coalition around the remain campaign, and some strong polling numbers for...
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A Pandora’s box of railway ownership

When Corbyn promised renationalisation as part of his leadership campaign policy platform he opened up Pandora’s box of railway ownership. United Kingdom citizens often rightly complain about the very high cost and the poor quality of railway services. Recent polls...
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Some progress, a lot to do

David Cameron yesterday embarked on the most significant negotiation of his political career. European council president Donald Tusk reported to waiting journalists that there had been ‘some progress’ on the first day of the Brussels summit, but ‘a lot still remains...
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Right answer – to wrong question, at wrong time, for wrong reasons

I am biased on Europe: born, postwar, in a divided Germany. Educated in a Britain outside of the common market, seeing a terrifying wall built in Berlin. Helped set up the European Trades Union Congress as we joined in 1973, bringing non-communist trade union bodies...
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