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MP Nick Brown and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown donate to dad's Newcastle Brown Ale collection

Michael Hewitt hopes to have the biggest Newcastle Brown Ale collection in the world

Chronicle Live · Mar 18, 2023

Gordon Brown and Douglas Stuart join book festival line-up

The Borders Book Festival takes place over four days in June.

The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2023

New first minister can ‘reset dial’ on inter-government relations – think tank

Our Scottish Future said there should be more co-operation between ministers in Edinburgh and London on the drive towards net zero.

The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2023

‘We needed a massive amount of resilience’: the female Labour MPs from the class of ’87

At the general election that year, the number of women in the Commons jumped to (an albeit still tiny) 41. Some talk about the sexism – and the solidarity

The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2023

West Lothian villages want controversial Spaces for People measures to stay

Many locals want the lockdown traffic-calming measures to be a permanent feature

Daily Record · Mar 3, 2023

West Lothian villages call for some Spaces for People measures to stay

The controversial pedestrian friendly changes brought in under Holyrood direction during the lockdown are mostly reviled, but wider pavements in busy parts of West Lothian villages have been welcomed by residents.

Edinburgh Live · Mar 2, 2023

Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Theresa May (and soon Nicola Sturgeon): the strange backbench lives of former national leaders

Former prime ministers are currently making a habit of intervening in government policy. Boris Johnson deployed sources to urge current prime minister Rishi Sunak not to abandon his Brexit policies and to send fighter jets to Ukraine. Liz Truss also used her first speech on the backbenches since leaving Downing…

The Conversation · Mar 2, 2023

Putin may never come to trial, so let’s help Ukraine act on Russian war crimes now

Letters: Russian forces are covering up unspeakable acts. The UK has evidence – and we should share it immediately, says Prof Brad Blitz. Plus Russell Inglis on a jurisdictional loophole that applies to the UK as well as the US

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2023

OPINION - Signs of green shoots for our economy? Sadly, I don’t think they exist

For those of a certain maturity, the Nineties offered mixed messages. The overthrow of Margaret Thatcher, the ERM debacle and the humiliation by elements in his own party of John Major were all associated with enduring economic misery. The arrival in 1997 of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the independence…

Evening Standard · Feb 27, 2023

A union renewed, two-party politics revived: is this the new Restoration? Sunak and Starmer hope so

In their own different ways, the two leaders dream of a return to ‘normality’ – but that’s what got us into this mess , says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2023