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By Russell Bruce These are startling figures from polling by YouGov carried out for The Times I have so far been unable to find a poll for any party in...

The Scottish Conservatives have a new leader, Douglas Ross, who has promised to “leave the old divisions” of nationalism in the past. In an interview with the BBC’s Good Morning...

It is a battle which has pitched a revered Glasgow clubbing institution against Britain’s largest pub chain. Over the last three years, bosses at the Sub Club on the city’s...

A salmon farming company has been reprimanded for feeding a toxic pesticide to fish twice as often as permitted and breaching a safety limit, according to documents released by the...

Just a quick note to let you know that I've written some analysis for The National of the YouGov poll showing Yes support soaring to a record-breaking 53%.  You can...

Should Scotland be an independent country? (YouGov, 6th-10th August 2020):Yes 53% (+2)No 47% (-2) Scottish Parliament constituency voting intentions: SNP 57% (+3)Conservatives 20% (-3)Labour 14% (+3)Liberal Democrats 6% (-2) Scottish...

Kinship carers – grandparents and other relatives who look after children when their birth parents cannot – claim they have been left “reeling in shock” after the contract for a...

Twenty children have been killed in Yemen since the UK government resumed arms sales to Saudi Arabia just over one month ago. We reported in July that Liz Truss MP,...

The trolling and spam on this blog has got completely out of hand in recent times, particularly over the last month, so to attempt to apply a brake I've temporarily...

Hundreds of tenants in Scotland have been handed eviction notices since the beginning of lockdown, despite government advice for landlords to be flexible with renters during the pandemic. Campaigners and...