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AFTER losing referendums on Scottish independence and Britain’s membership of the European Union, why does Nicola Sturgeon bang on about a second independence vote?
Yes, it’s a given that she and her party want Scotland to leave the United Kingdom.
But she must know that, having failed to carry the day after the most abjectly inept campaign run by independence opponents — the spuriously named Better Together car crash — chances of victory now are slim.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
On the release of her memoir that reveals everything except politics, Sturgeon’s endless media coverage has focused on her panic attacks, sexuality and personal tragedies while ignoring her government’s many failures, writes PAULINE BRYAN
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’