Without hesitation, on Sunday morning Bernie Sanders said what any genuine democrat would say: if the people of Scotland "want to go their own way, they should be allowed to."
ALL eyes are on Gregor Townsend and his squad today as they are due to take on – typhoon permitting – hosts Japan in the Rugby World Cup.
TODAY is Europe Day, marking what is widely believed to be the birth of the European Union on May 9, 1950, when Robert Schuman, a French foreign minister, made the Schuman Declaration.
SIXTY years ago today, in a Europe still healing from the division and economic scars of the Second World War, the signing of the Treaty of Rome laid the foundations for the sustainable peace we all enjoy today. What for centuries had been an abstract aspiration for meaningful cross-border cooperation turned into concrete and powerful reality, marking a hugely significant step in the process of European solidarity.
