en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:34:57 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Magnus Linklater, Opinion Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-10T11:09:52Z Engraved on the heart, or at least the election manifesto, of every Scottish politician, are the words that established the country’s state-run education system in 1872: “It cannot be too often repeated, that the theory of our school system [is] to supply every member of the community with the means of obtaining for our children, not only the elements of education, but such instructions as would fit them to pass to the burgh school, and thence to the University, or directly to the University from the parish school.” Magnus Linklater, Comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-25T11:50:58Z The Lockerbie investigation has never been formally closed off, but until now there had been little evidence that it was active. For the victims’ families, the news that the Scottish authorities are reassessing the evidence will be welcome. At the very least it tells them that the search for the truth has not been abandoned.