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Scotland claims its “compassionate release” system is about mercy. But Lockerbie proved it was about oil, money, and political bargaining. New data now shows Scotland is still freeing “terminal” prisoners who inconveniently keep living. iPINIONS revisits the Lockerbie bomber scandal to expose a pattern of corruption dressed up as compassion, and the powerful figures who… Read more.
Scotland elected Humza Yousaf SNP leader on Monday. In doing so, it said to England, I’ll see your Indian Sunak and raise our Pakistani Yousaf – never mind your Khan. Granted, Brexit has relegated British politics almost irrelevant on the world stage. As such, it has rendered Scottish politics even more so. Scotland elects Humza… Read more.
Scotland spurned independence in a historic referendum that threatened to rip the United Kingdom apart, sow financial turmoil and diminish Britain’s remaining global clout… Unionists won 55 percent of the vote while separatists won 45 percent with 31 of 32 constituencies declared. (Reuters, September 19, 2014) Why? Well, with due respect to all of the… Read more.
Not only is Catalonia presenting an equally compelling case for independence as Kosovo; it is doing so in a non-violent way that stands in commendable and instructive contrast to the violence that attended Kosovo independence. Alas, such is the vested (European) interest in holding Spain together (economically and politically) that, even if Catalonia were to… Read more.
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi is the notorious Libyan convicted in 2001 of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. The explosion occurred over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people, two-thirds of them American. Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison. Nevertheless, Scottish authorities released him on compassionate grounds last Thursday after determining he was suffering… Read more.
