The United Kingdom maintains a fleet of four ballistic missile submarines with the ability to devastate even the largest of countries. This fleet came into being after its ally, the United States, cancelled a key weapon system that would have been the cornerstone of London’s
nuclear arsenal. Fifty years later, the UK’s missile submarine force is the sole custodian of the country’s nuclear weapons, providing a constant deterrent against nuclear attack.
Here's What You Need to Remember: At 15,000 tons displacement, the Vanguards are twice the size of the Resolution class that preceded them. Although each submarine has sixteen launch tubes, a decision was made in 2010 to load each sub with just eight American-built
Trident II D-5 submarine launched ballistic missiles.
The United Kingdom maintains a fleet of four ballistic missile submarines with the ability to devastate even the largest of countries. This fleet came into being after its ally, the United States, cancelled a key weapon
system that would have been the cornerstone of London’s nuclear arsenal. Fifty years later, the UK’s missile submarine force is the sole custodian of the country’s nuclear weapons, providing a constant deterrent against nuclear attack lol .
When the time is right, we need to demonstrate more effectively. Stop marching up and down street. Get militant. Now is the time to plan.
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Mines had always had a large female element in their workforce; women were generally employed to carry coal to the surface. It was only in 1842 – with the Mines Regulation Act – that women and young children were banned from working below ground.
The following passage is an extract of a book that was published by Robert Bald, a mining engineer at Alloa, in 1812.
Robert Bald, A General View of the Coal Trade of Scotland, Chiefly that of the River Forth & Lothian, to which is Added an Inquiry into the Condition of the Women who Carry Coals under Ground in Scotland, Known by the Name of Bearers, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Waugh and Innes, 1812
Robert Owen (1771-1858) was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire in Wales. During a series of business trips in the West of Scotland he visited the cotton-spinning village of New Lanark which he purchased in 1799, thus becoming the manager of one of the largest cotton spinning
plants in Scotland. New Lanark became the place where Owen put into practice his social and economic theories. Owen was convinced that good working conditions would give him a loyal and productive work-force and improve the efficiency of the system: he instituted progressive
Civil servants' clarifications and corrections.
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At an evidence session on September 15, Barbara Allison was asked whether she received a text message from Leslie Evans, in January 2019, stating “battle may be lost but not the war.” She twice claimed that she had not received
the message. However, she later wrote to the committee, ahead of a second appearance, admitting she had received it after all. She claimed she "must have deleted" the message. She maintains that she cannot remember what she sent to Ms Evans to elicit the response.
The Scottish Government has repeatedly been accused of obstructing the inquiry by refusing to hand over legal advice it received about Mr Salmond's legal challenge. Mr Salmond has claimed ministers continued to fight his case until January 2019, despite being warned in October
Breaking - Nicola Sturgeon's government has spent more than £50,000 "preparing" civil servants to give evidence about the Alex Salmond affair at hearings where they suffered "collective memory loss", it has emerged.
Information obtained by The Daily Telegraph shows that
by early November, £54,378 of taxpayers’ money had been spent on external assistance to help senior civil servants get ready for appearances at a Holyrood inquiry.
The Scottish Government refused to say which organisation or individual had been hired, but members of the
committee branded the cost “astonishing” and said it raised questions over whether witnesses had been “coached”.
Staff logs released in response to a Freedom of Information request also show that witnesses spent several hours preparing for sessions, only to then face criticism
What's in a name ?
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Like many other church lands throughout the country at that time, some of the possessions described in the Inquest had probably passed into the hands of laymen, but were no doubt restored, as most of the lands specified can be identified among those
subsequently belonging to the bishopric. Those adjoining Glasgow, so far as identified, were situated to the east of the Molendinar Burn. It seems to have been considered unnecessary to mention the site of the Cathedral and Glasgow itself, unless such possessions are included
under designations that have not been recognised. All around Glasgow the lands not belonging to the Church seem to have been part of the royal domain, and the whole of that territory was disposed of by King David
before the close of his reign. Rutherglen was erected by him into
For more generations than is comfortable to recall, Scottish servicemen/women have been at the forefront of the UKs projection of power. It was necessary in 1939-45 war against fascism but before that it was often to advance or defend British imperialism. The sentimentality
exhibited at any threat to the Scottish regiments, shows the Scottish mind still engaged with the idea of hard power. The new independent Scotland , if it wants to be influential in the International community should be projecting soft power. Power that delivers
humanitarian aid is preferable to power that delivers a bullet from a gun.
Juxtaposed to that military tendency, there is a broad streak of idealism in the Scots which makes them ready to respond to those in need or danger across the world. This policy gives expression to