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...ready to come back yet. ? THEY HAVEN'T GOT THE HORSEPOWER. In addition to a dwindling membership (around 250,000, about the same as Labour) with an average age above 60, the Tories have lost so many parliamentary seats to Labour that they have only one M.P. in Scotland, just 12 out of 161 English seats north of Sheffield, and none in major cities like Manchester and Leeds. The party is notably floundering among women, professionals and young people. Maybe its strength in local government - an important feeder for national politics - and its 36 new seats...
...Shetland Islands, 150 miles off the northern tip of Scotland, are about as remote as it gets from London or the Caribbean. But for Laurent Viguie, 44, a financier in the City, and Karol Rzepkowski, 41, who was running a scuba and windsurfing business on Grenada, the storm-swept Shetlands with their clean, cold water were the perfect place to set up an environmentally friendly aquaculture business to produce...
...sandy bunkers of St. Andrews aren't the only tourist traps in the golf capital of Scotland. Just 14 km down the road, 30 m beneath a quaint stone farmhouse, is Scotland's Secret Bunker: the nuclear-proof headquarters for Scottish ministers, had the cold war got hot. Descend a gray metal staircase and down a 150-m, tungsten-reinforced tunnel to reach the bunker's red blastproof doors. From 1968 to 1992 these subterranean redoubts were manned by soldiers from the Royal Observer Corps; on guard today are uniformed mannequins, their lifelessness adding an apocalyptic chill...
...natural disaster into an issue of law and order. It can be only a matter of time before criticism of the federal response to Katrina is declared unpatriotic. If you see barbarism in Baghdad, perhaps you will recognize it, too, on Pennsylvania Avenue. Nigel M. Chambers East Holm, Scotland...
...Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder The sandy bunkers of St. Andrews aren't the only tourist traps in the golf capital of Scotland. Just 14 km down the road, 30 m beneath a quaint stone farmhouse, is Scotland's Secret Bunker: the nuclear-proof headquarters for Scottish ministers, had the cold war got hot. Descend a gray metal staircase and down a 150-m, tungsten-reinforced tunnel to reach the bunker's red blastproof...