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| Editor's Note | Respecting Peace
Earlier this month my 10-year-old son was asked by his teacher to remove his white poppy and replace it with a red one. A small playground incident and one that he wanted no fuss made over but as his mother and someone who respects the fact that men and women paid the ultimate sacrifice of their lives to preserve the rest of us, I object. We live in a time when more civilians die during conflicts than military personnel. Who remembers them? Where are the monuments to the ordinary citizens who have perished alongside the soldiers whom we honour in an annual exhibition of ritualistic mourning and a sea of red? My son’s great-great-grandfather was a conscientious objector during WW1. His family suffered hugely for his principles and ultimately, he became one of the fallen when he received a horrific head injury inflicted by someone who objected to his objections to not go to war and who hit him over the head with a pickaxe. He ended his days in a psychiatric ward, unaware of whether his protests had done any good. He would be horrified to know now that we are still engaged in bloody battles such as in Iraq, where we have regrettably lost over 100 British soldiers and stopped countin...
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179 - 19th November 2007
Woman on top: Interview with Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing
Focus: Changing names: More choices, more chances for NEETs
Insight: Free Personal Care
National conversation: Robert Crawford on building a new Scotland
Plus: 32-page report on public sector reform
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| Woman on top |
 | Woman on top
Mandy Rhodes interviews Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing Nicola Sturgeon and finds her refreshingly honest about her own health, wellbeing and political ambitions
With the boss out of the country on important First Ministerial business in Sri Lanka – it’s a hard job but someone has to do it - Nicola Sturgeon is back in the driving seat at the Scottish Parliament. in the three years before Alex Salmond returned to Holyrood from Westminster as leader of the party, Sturgeon had weekly fought her corner during FMQs against then First Minister Jack McConne...
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| Focus |
The choice and chance challenge
Rory Cahill and Rachel Hamada try to sidestep the old
NEET label and look at how children can be placed on the right path in life
Everything old is new again. in the 16th century the
Spanish Catholic warrior and scholar St Ignatius Loyola, founder of the
Jesuits, encapsulated his attitude to education by saying, ‘give me the boy
until he is seven, and I will show you the man.’ nearly five hundred years
later, Loyola’s words bear special resonance for those in the body politic
attempting to tackle one of the most costly, and stubborn, problems in modern
Scotland.
These are th...
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| The national conversation |
Tools to change
Former chief executive of Scottish Enterprise Robert Crawford looks at the vision Scotland needs to succeed on its own
In recent weeks, I have read a series of articles and advertisements in international news magazines extolling transformational policies being introduced by countries as diverse as Dubai, Qatar, Ireland and Monaco. The latter took me by surprise since I had pretty much assumed that the principality already occupied a cosy little niche (or is it haven?), safe from the buffeting winds of economic uncertainty unleashed by globalisation. But not a bit of it, even this home of...
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