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Merry Xmas and Happy New Year! 11 Dec 2019
Gold Hits 5-Month Low in GBP Ahead of UK Vote, ‘De-Dollarization’ to Support 2020 Prices | Gold News 11 Dec 2019
Afghanistan: a Pentagon Paradise Built on Lies – CounterPunch.org 11 Dec 2019
A Visit to the New Vonnegut Library and Museum – TheHumanist.com 11 Dec 2019
A Church Nativity Scene Makes a Statement About Border Detentions 11 Dec 2019
Scientists Present New Ionosphere Images and Science at AGU 2019 | NASA 11 Dec 2019
World’s Most Beautiful Cities | Mental Floss 11 Dec 2019
16 new Glasgow bars and restaurants to put on your must-try list this December – Glasgow Live 10 Dec 2019
Arlene Foster turns on Boris Johnson, saying she will never take him at his word again: ‘Once bitten, twice shy’ | The Independent 10 Dec 2019
General Election polls 2019: How Britain’s pollsters have changed their methods | inews 10 Dec 2019
Father of Dunblane victim speaks out against Boris Johnson | The National 10 Dec 2019
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A Beloved San Diego Gallery Is Pushed Out by a Wave of Gentrification 10 Dec 2019
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Seven Wonders of the World for 2020 | CN Traveller 10 Dec 2019
Monday’s papers: Finland’s new Prime Minister, Paatero’s return, and an industrial strike 9 Dec 2019
Inside IndyRef2 – Looking forward to a new future – TruePublica 9 Dec 2019
Poll reveals majority will back Scottish independence if Brexit happens | The National 9 Dec 2019
The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military – A Book Review – American Herald Tribune 9 Dec 2019
Young Bomberg and the Old Masters at the National Gallery: the Renaissance influences on an East End radical | inews 9 Dec 2019
Blue Origin gets set to send postcards to space on test flight – GeekWire 9 Dec 2019
The most remarkable ghost towns across the world | Stuff.co.nz 9 Dec 2019
Proclaimers approve election versions of their hits for SNP | The National 8 Dec 2019
10 Best Historical Novels of the 2010s | Books of the Decade 8 Dec 2019
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Vietnamese photographer snaps unreal beauty in real life – VnExpress International 8 Dec 2019
The Truth About this Election – Craig Murray 7 Dec 2019
The Two “T’n’T” Bombshells That Senior Conservatives Fear Could Deny Boris Johnson A Majority 7 Dec 2019
Boris Johnson may win the election. The rest of us will lose | Middle East Eye 7 Dec 2019
‘Stunning poll’ suggests SNP on course for extra 11 MPs at General Election | The National 7 Dec 2019
Book review – Modernist Art in Ethiopia | Africa at LSE 7 Dec 2019
Annie Leibovitz’s Iconic Photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono – Artsy 7 Dec 2019
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Westminster budget delay shows ‘contempt for Scotland’, claims Derek Mackay – The Scotsman 6 Dec 2019
Magical Realism with Claire Taylor – SLUG Magazine 6 Dec 2019
Times Critics’ Top Art Books of 2019 – The New York Times 6 Dec 2019
This Giant Planet is 4 Times Bigger Than its Dead Star | Discover Magazine 6 Dec 2019
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We’re here to stand up for the average person’: General worker strike discussed at ‘Resist Kenney’s Cuts’ rally 5 Dec 2019
China needs to be prepared for US financial sanctions – Global Times 5 Dec 2019
Fort William dubbed ‘The Black Hole’ in mental health circles | The Oban Times 5 Dec 2019
Dundee graduate from Fife has digital comic about city’s landmarks published by V&A – The Courier 5 Dec 2019
Tributes paid to Aberdeen theatre luminary, Edi Swan, who worked with everybody from Charlton Heston to Chic Murray | Press and Journal 5 Dec 2019
Nicola Sturgeon rejects claims of austerity in independent Scotland | The National 5 Dec 2019
The Difficult Art of Giving Space in Love: Rilke on Freedom, Togetherness, and the Secret to a Good Marriage – Brain Pickings 5 Dec 2019
Artist who rose from humble beginnings to ‘bestride the international art scene like a colossus’ honoured at north Belfast church of his baptism – The Irish News 5 Dec 2019
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Iraqis rise up against 16 years of ‘made in the USA’ corruption | openDemocracy 4 Dec 2019
The battle for the Scottish marginals | Prospect Magazine 4 Dec 2019
People wearing MAGA hats removed during Nato protests in London | The National 4 Dec 2019
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19 Exhibitions That’ll Blow You Away Right Now | Londonist 4 Dec 2019
NASA Spots Crash Site and Debris from India’s Lost Moon Lander | Live Science 4 Dec 2019
Not exactly the Orient Express, but Europe’s sleepers are back | Stuff.co.nz 4 Dec 2019
Sturgeon hopes BBC has moved on from ‘institutional issues’ | The National 3 Dec 2019
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The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 – The New York Times 3 Dec 2019
Shunned in the US, Huawei looks to Russia to invent an AI future | South China Morning Post 3 Dec 2019
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Simple Minds announce Aberdeen gig – Buchan Observer 2 Dec 2019
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Google bans eight different Tory election adverts as disinformation concerns mount | The Independent 2 Dec 2019
What are Jo Swinson’s Liberal Democrats so desperate to hide? | openDemocracy 2 Dec 2019
General strikes threaten to engulf France in winter of discontent | World | The Sunday Times 2 Dec 2019
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Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves: Circuit design offers a path to ‘spintronic’ devices that use little electricity and generate practically no heat — ScienceDaily 2 Dec 2019
There’s a new push for the return of looted Aboriginal artefacts – in the name of ‘truth telling’ | Paul Daley | Australia news | The Guardian 2 Dec 2019
Sinn Féin’s newest TD becomes party’s talisman for hopeful resurgence 1 Dec 2019
Lanark author Alasdair Gray honoured with lifetime achievement award for his contribution to Scottish literature | Edinburgh News 1 Dec 2019
Dr John Cooper Clarke comes to Weston-super-Mare next week | Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News 1 Dec 2019
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Museum Showcases a Neglected Segment of the Art World: Women – The New York Times 30 Nov 2019
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Henry Kissinger Gets It… US ‘Exceptionalism’ Is Over — Strategic Culture 30 Nov 2019
Poll: 50 per cent support for independence as SNP stay on course to win most Scottish votes | CommonSpace 30 Nov 2019
Controversial atheist to secular saint: Writing a novel about George Eliot’s life 30 Nov 2019
The week’s best art exhibitions: From Anna Daucikova to KCAT 30 Nov 2019
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