Month: August 2018

Asylum seekers were shackled for up to 17 hours while being forcibly removed from the UK by a private firm, with one “frightened” woman handcuffed, put in leg and waist ...

Wonga stops issuing new loans as company teeters on the edge of administration LEADING economists are calling to changes in the structure of UK finance as the exploitative 'payday' loans company ...

Salmond: “Most of all I am conscious that if the Party felt forced into suspending me it would cause substantial internal division.” FORMER first minister and SNP leader Alex Salmond has resigned ...

Paper for UN sustainability report says economic solutions within the “neoclassical school”, based on balanced state budgets and carbon pricing, will not deliver the rapid transition needed A GROUP of ...

A family business running homeless bed and breakfasts (B&Bs) and hostels in Edinburgh that have attracted repeated complaints has been paid more than £15 million by the city council over ...

It's with great trepidation that I even think of writing a little more about the current Alex Salmond story, because no matter what I say, some unionist journalist will doubtless ...

We couldn’t help noticing one particular Rory Bremner tweet last night. And we thought, “Well, WE know someone who predicted those things.” Here they are, for example, predicting Brexit way back in ...

Sitting on a scrap of beach looking over Edinburgh’s Firth of Forth – a no-man’s land that is no longer Muirhouse, still quite a way from Cramond – the water ...

There were two political rallies in Scotland on Saturday. There was a pro-independence rally in Dundee which attracted 16,000 participants and was one of the biggest demonstrations that the city ...