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Holocaust survivor and educator Henry Wuga dies aged 100

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 17 March - 19:36

Wuga escaped Germany in 1939, settled in Glasgow and spent decades educating people about the horrors of the Holocaust

Tributes have been paid to the “force for good” Henry Wuga, a Holocaust survivor and educator, who has died aged 100.

The death of Wuga, who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport in 1939 and settled in Glasgow, was announced by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust on Sunday .

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The Guardian view on Covid and devolution: Britain’s missing mindset | Editorial

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 1 February - 18:52 · 1 minute

Lady Hallett’s inquiry is learning that the UK and Scottish governments each lacked respect for the sharing of powers

From the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK government and the Scottish government responded to it differently in many ways. This was not because Covid-19 took one form in Scotland and another in England. It did not. The virus killed much the same proportion of both populations . The differences of approach arose mainly from human and political causes. The two governments not only saw the role of government differently. They also mistrusted one another’s motives, not without reason.

Lady Hallett’s UK Covid inquiry has spent the past two weeks cross-examining many members of the Scottish political and medical elite about their approaches and actions between 2000 and 2022. Lady Hallett and her team will shortly move on to Wales and to Northern Ireland. But the story she heard in Scotland was not an uplifting one. True, the Scottish elites’ record during Covid did not descend to the level of the often chaotic indecision and recklessness of the UK response – which would have been hard. But the Scottish government has not emerged covered in virtue or glory either.

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Scotland’s government pushed to release all its pandemic WhatsApp messages

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 26 October - 14:25

Counsel to UK Covid-19 inquiry intervenes after failure to disclose or possibly retain messaging app texts

The Scottish government has been ordered to release all its WhatsApp messages from during the coronavirus pandemic after it failed to disclose them to the UK Covid inquiry.

The inquiry heard on Thursday that none of the private messages written during the Covid crisis by Nicola Sturgeon, who was then first minister, or by her health and finance ministers, had been disclosed despite repeated requests dating to 2022.

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Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon passes driving test at 53

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 23 October, 2023 - 22:28

Ex-SNP leader says she passed first time and the experience of learning took her well out of her comfort zone

Nicola Sturgeon has announced on social media she has passed her driving test at the age of 53.

The former first minister of Scotland said she was successful on her first attempt. She posted a photograph of herself and Andy McFarlane, her driving instructor, on Instagram on Monday.

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Nicola Sturgeon resignation: online rumours played a part, says ex-SNP leader

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 2 April, 2023 - 06:13

Former Scottish first minister says she needed more privacy and accounts of her life on social media were ‘much more glamorous and exciting’ than reality

The former first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has said the need to seek more privacy in the wake of internet rumours was “part of the reason” for her resignation.

Sturgeon surprisingly resigned as leader of the Scottish National party in February, citing the funeral of independence activist Allan Angus as the moment that cemented her decision.

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L'Écosse a choisi une date pour son prochain référendum sur l'indépendance

news.movim.eu / HuffingtonPost · Tuesday, 28 June, 2022 - 18:28 · 2 minutes

Nicola Sturgeon le 17 mai 2022 à Washington (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

ROYAUME-UNI - En pleine visite de la reine, l’annonce ne passe pas inaperçue. La Première ministre écossaise a annoncé ce mardi 28 juin vouloir organiser un référendum “consultatif” sur l’indépendance de la nation britannique en octobre 2023, malgré l’échec d’une précédente consultation en 2014 et le refus du gouvernement britannique d’autoriser ce vote.

“Je peux annoncer que le gouvernement écossais propose que le référendum sur l’indépendance se tienne le 19 octobre 2023”, a déclaré la Première ministre écossaise Nicola Sturgeon au parlement local.

Pour organiser ce référendum, Nicola Sturgeon, cheffe du parti indépendantiste SNP, doit obtenir l’accord du gouvernement britannique qui s’y oppose fermement. Les Ecossais avaient déjà été consultés sur le sujet en 2014 et avaient voté à 55% pour rester au sein du Royaume-Uni.

S’appuyant sur ce vote précédent, le Premier ministre britannique Boris Johnson soutient qu’un tel référendum ne peut se produire “qu’une fois par génération”.

Le SNP estime cependant que le Brexit a changé la donne, les Écossais s’y étant opposés à 62% . L’objectif du SNP est que l’Écosse rejoigne l’Union européenne en tant qu’Etat indépendant.

Nicola Sturgeon s’est dite prête à négocier avec Boris Johnson mais a averti qu’elle ne permettrait pas que “la démocratie écossaise soit prisonnière de Boris Johnson ou de n’importe quel Premier ministre”.

S’attendant à un bras de fer judiciaire, elle a pris les devants et annoncé que la Cour suprême avait été sollicitée pour déterminer si le Parlement écossais avait le pouvoir de légiférer pour organiser ce référendum sans l’accord du gouvernement britannique.

Avant cette allocution, Boris Johnson a répété son attachement à l’unité du royaume. “Nous pensons certainement que notre plan pour une économie plus forte fonctionne mieux lorsque le Royaume-Uni est uni que lorsqu’il ne l’est pas”, a déclaré mardi le dirigeant conservateur à la télévision britannique en marge du G7 en Allemagne.

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