Assa Samake-Roman
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- Jul 15, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Asking to be given independence is a contradiction in terms (opens the original)
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I WRITE in full and enthusiastic agreement with Angus Brendan MacNeil’s excellent and timely article, “Unionists will never help us gain independence – we have to stop asking” (Jul 13). His clear-sighted analysis captures exactly what so many in the SNP and the wider Yes movement have long understood: the path to independence will never be gifted by Westminster. It must be taken. Real power is taken and not given. Asking for independence is a contradiction in terms. Our sovereignty as a people i
The problem isnât hope, itâs power in modern Scottish politics (opens the original)
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ONE of the things I remain most grateful to my French education for is that, at 17, I had to study philosophy. In the final year of secondary school in France, every pupil does. We were expected to wrestle with questions humanity has returned to for millennia â what is freedom?; what do we owe one another?; can we ever know the truth? I did not appreciate the privilege at the time. But one question stayed with me. Immanuel Kant famously reduced the concerns of human reason to three: What can I
Scotland's maternity services need more than a âculture changeâ (opens the original)
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OVER the past few years, Britain has commissioned report after report into failures in maternity care. Shrewsbury and Telford. East Kent. Morecambe Bay. Nottingham. Most recently, the national investigation led by Baroness Valerie Amos. The cases differ, sometimes dramatically, but the findings now sound grimly familiar: clinicians did not listen to women, trusts shut families out after harm, staff raised concerns and leaders ignored them, organisations turned defensive, and nobody learned enoug
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