Charles Kennedy has died at the age of 55PA/Fiona HansonI first met Charles Kennedy in 1990. He was working his first job as MP for Ross, Cromarty & Skye, (now Ross, Skye & Lochaber) and I was working mine, as Research Assistant to Simon Hughes. There were eight years between us but Charles wasn’t the kind of person to let the...
Worth its weight in gold.EPA/Jean-Christophe BottThis year’s UEFA Champions League Final is almost upon us, with Barcelona set to take on Juventus on June 6. It is four years since Barcelona last played for European club football’s highest honour. For Juventus, it is the first time since 2003 that they have reached the final and,...
How are we helping their children's children?Everett Kennedy Brown / EPAIf you ask the climate negotiators gathering in Bonn this week for their last get-together before the Paris conference in December who they are doing all this for, the reply would probably mention future generations. You can be as cynical as you like about what actually drives...
Charles Kennedy 1959-2015.Andrew Milligan / PI remember watching Charles Kennedy in the debating chamber at the University of Glasgow when we were both undergraduates. It was already obvious that he was a great orator – not someone who would write complicated speeches, but someone who even then had that knack of communicating with his...
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