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...accounts. It also reminds us how important stability is for consumer confidence, employment and overall growth. It is perhaps a small irony that echoes of 2008 are a key driving force behind the current push toward populism. If nothing else, the Great Recession should highlight the need for greater certainty in the political climate. But this means a deeper commitment to...

...accountant with a bright future, but as Sofi was less academic the opportunities available to her in Malaysia were limited to perhaps marriage. Scotland offered Sofi the chance to train in the nursing profession, with a new life, in a new country, with more opportunities. However, life in Scotland brought its own challenges. On a daily basis Sofi encountered racism in the...

...account of the Ryedale Strike of 1912 has been drawn from a much longer article which appeared in the Scottish Labour History, journal of the Scottish Labour History Society, volume 55, 2020 (see below), and which was constructed primarily from reports of the strike in the two early C20 Dumfries newspapers: the Dumfries Standard & Advertiser and the Dumfries Courier &...