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By Margaret Johnstone Much has been spouted, hands waving wildly, by the Prime Minister, his Ministers and his Tory MPs, to defend the breaching of international law by the Internal...

Equality Nation put this twitter thread together which we think should be more than fast passing twitter commentary. Tanja Bueltmann is an academic who describes herself as German affinity Scot...

A reader emailed me the other day to ask whether there had been any polling done in Shetland or Orkney to test whether there is support for the type of...

Should Scotland be an independent country? (Survation, 2nd-7th September 2020)Yes 53% (+3)No 47% (-3)Before anyone claims that this is not an increase for Yes at all, because the last poll...

More than one in four prisoners in Scottish jails is now serving time behind bars despite not yet facing a trial or sentencing.Figures from the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) show...

By Equality Nation That was a belief we all lived with. The Tories boasted of being the party of law and order, upholders of the rule of law, guardians of...

The Scottish Government’s freedom of information performance has collapsed during the coronavirus pandemic – undermining public accountability when it is most needed, the information watchdog has warned.The Scottish Information Commissioner,...

A £150m housing fund has awarded more than £100m to private firms, prompting claims the Scottish Government is “doling out millions of pounds” to developers at the expense of affordable...

By Russell Bruce The amount of data collected for Covid infections is indicative of changing patterns in how different age groups are becoming infected. In this analysis of infections by...

James Morrison on Twitter directed me to an opinion piece in the Guardian containing an apparent nugget of information - "Ministers are increasingly nervous that a Scottish breakaway is on the...