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Remote, oil-rich Shetland elbows way into Scotland’s independence vote (Reuters UK) As the Scottish independence vote nears, Shetland’s council has joined forces with two other island councils, Orkney and the Western Isles, to ask for greater […]

“Every Major’s Terrible,” as Performed by an Actual University Chorus Randall Munroe’s cynical ode to undergraduate indecision is a clever parody of Gilbert & Sullivan’s I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General, performed by […]

Celine Cooper: Quebec nationalism is changing Quebec — long abstracted from large-scale, pan-Canadian initiatives and policy endeavours — must now resume its place and responsibilities in shaping the federation. For its part, Canada must reacquaint itself […]

Turkey’s YouTube and Twitter bans show a government in serious trouble (The Guardian) The prime minister is panicking as corruption claims spill out across social media, and the country is poised to go to the polls […]