Aye, and Hop-tu-naa, which my friend from the Isle of Man calls it.

American (presumably US) you say? Not really. www.shetland.org/blog/hallowe...

Your site is down, ironically!

Shetland has exactly the same amount of annual daylight hours as say Arne in Dorset, so we are not losing more in actual terms.

As did Bill Connor, author of the Cassandra column in the Daily Mirror, after resuming writing after WW2.

Perfect sales pitch as an example of the need for more autonomy.

Certainly the US has provided insight on how a written constitution with apparent checks and balances can be worthless in the wrong hands. I lean more to the Irish way of having a more ceremonial elected head of state as a preference.

Whilst I do see your point, part of me thinks that someone who doesn't want the job but was born into the role, is trained their entire life for it, might be a better choice than Dave the Estate Agent, who became an MP because they're a terrible narcissist, and fancies themselves as head of state.

Juliet Mills is not dead, and they've been married since 1980, if he was in it for the money he's certainly playing the long game eh?