The Scotsman opinion piece, on UK Politics, 12 November 2026
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Read the original article on scotsman.com (opens in a new tab)The Scotsman runs a short comment piece that uses new research on a gilded statue of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius in the Scottish Borders to reflect on the fall of the powerful, by way of Stalin's statue in Budapest and Shelley's Ozymandias. It presents the research as a suggestion, not a settled finding, and attributes its description of the emperor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Nothing in it misleads its reader.
Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.
“Now new research suggests a huge gilded statue”
The column keeps the research's tentative status with "suggests", matching how the BBC and The Independent reported the same finding, so the reader is not told a hypothesis is established fact.
“According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, he was “mild-mannered and capable””
The column attributes its judgement of the emperor to a named source and quotes it, so the reader knows whose assessment it is.
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