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Two books about the Scottish-English border remind us of our impermanence

Graham Robb’s The Debatable Land and Rory Stewart’s The Marches dig into the history and culture of the borderlands.

By Alasdair McKillop

Two books about the Scottish-English border remind us of our impermanence

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Keegan and Dalglish: putting human faces on the transformation of football

Keegan typified the birth of the new football; Dalglish the demise of the old, writes Richard T Kelly.

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