The Scottish referendum made for magnificent drama. At risk a 306 year old Union. The disintegration of an ancient kingdom. A monarch awaiting the fate of her kingdom in an ancestral palace in the Scottish highlands. A weepy Prime Minister. A feisty independence fighter. The haunting sounds of bag-pipes echoing through the Scotland’s fabled mists. …
Month: September 2014
Poker Face
The European continent, like never before, is facing a number of security threats the like of which it has not seen since the collapse of communism some twenty years ago. To the south of Europe Islamic fundamentalism is wreaking havoc to previously oppressed, though stable, societies whilst to the east Russia has opted to play …