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JOHN MACLEOD: King must put throne first and reject the return of Harry and Meghan ...

The Daily Mail 06 Aug 2025
The first rule of monarchy is not glitter, ceremonial nor influence. It is survival. At the height of the Great War, with thrones tottering on all sides, King George V, our first great constitutional monarch, moved decisively to secure his own ... .
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JOHN MACLEOD: For all the President's kindness, is Swinney now a friend or just some ...

The Daily Mail 30 Jul 2025
Just scant months ago, John Swinney told massed MSPs he fervently hoped Kamala Harris would beat Donald Trump at the looming Presidential election ... John Swinney was granted a 15 minute audience with US President Donald Trump.
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JOHN MACLEOD: So long, Sir Jamie, but parliament won't see your like again - it ...

The Daily Mail 23 Jul 2025
Sir James McGrigor was beloved on all sides of the chamber, writes John MacLeod. You wouldn’t get a Margo MacDonald in either parliament these days, writes John MacLeod ... John Prescott, as Deputy Prime Minister, was less a colleague than a sort of pet.
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JOHN MACLEOD: Hairy and dishevelled, bopping along as if sozzled...but hum of the bumblebee is ...

The Daily Mail 09 Jul 2025
She meant the bumblebee, meandering gently about, never in a rush, loath to sting. Hairy and dishevelled, it bounces off windows and bops, as if a little sozzled, amidst delphiniums and buddleia and honeysuckle and the bonny purple heather ... France. .
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JOHN MACLEOD: A clatter in the larder, a scrabble, a squeak (and even stolen stock ...

The Daily Mail 02 Jul 2025
Most winters I have had a moose loose aboot the hoose. Especially when, given Covid and my late father’s growing vulnerability, I spent a succession of winters in Edinburgh, returning to my island lair come spring ... In March, though, I began to worry ... .
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JOHN MACLEOD:  What truly lies behind a smile (and how our late Queen had loveliest ...

The Daily Mail 25 Jun 2025
JOHN MACLEOD ... In the vanguard of a new political master-race, John F Kennedy blithely re-invented the modern professional politician as The Beatles recast the pop group.
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JOHN MACLEOD: He's watching! My unsettling brush with Big Brother while buying sausage and onions ...

The Daily Mail 11 Jun 2025
The other day I noticed a mildly alarming development at our local Tesco ... In vivid Technicolor. With an image of every item and in very big print. I glanced right and left. It was the same at every other till ... ‘Well, there goes Johnny Journo. Dylan Thomas.
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JOHN MACLEOD:  A song of praise for TV's Sally, who endured horror enough for a ...

The Daily Mail 04 Jun 2025
I recently enjoyed some holiday with my mother in her new Glasgow pad, barely half an hour’s walk from where we lived through the Seventies. And, walking hither and yon, I visited many old haunts. Schools ... Solemn warnings ... JOHN MACLEOD ... John Murray Press.
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JOHN MACLEOD: The Clyde no longer clangs with the sound of hammers, but still the ...

The Daily Mail 28 May 2025
It’s a muggy day in August 1979 and, atop a bicycle slightly too big for him, a mop-haired 13 year-old heads determinedly through western Glasgow by Anniesland Road, Kingsway and the main drag to Dumbarton ... But he likes ferries ... ‘Really?’ ... .
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JOHN MACLEOD: We are an island nation...nothing can erase the place fishermen hold in the ...

The Daily Mail 21 May 2025
In May 2000 I had a memorable break in Raasay, a lush and fascinating island sandwiched roughly between Portree and Applecross ... Britain's fishermen have been comprehensively betrayed by the Labour government ... ‘It’s like Brexit never happened ... .
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JOHN MACLEOD: A mainland excursion by ferry? I'm taking a chance on the antique boat ...

The Daily Mail 14 May 2025
When John Whittle transformed ... And John Whittle – though he ingeniously updated assorted routes by adapting and rebuilding quite a few ships – was not in the least sentimental about tired old bangers.
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JOHN MACLEOD: The five key ingredients for a perfect artisan loaf: flour, water, yeast, salt- ...

The Daily Mail 07 May 2025
In the late summer of 1988 – I had just graduated – I spent several pleasant weeks with my widowed grandmother, who lived in Laxdale, just outside Stornoway ... But, in 1988, it still boasted additionally a post office and a bakery ... There was no signage ... .
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