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If you're starting to feel like you've taken out a subscription to the Daily Telegraph by mistake, it may be because you've been reading a few too many Herald columns...

The Scottish Government is going to ban the fish farming industry from shooting seals to save a £180 million export business to the US, The Ferret can reveal. Scottish ministers...

UK politicians have been forced to adapt to the Covid-19 outbreak like many others, with councils and parliaments experimenting with the new online tools that allow people to meet and...

The rural economy secretary, Fergus Ewing, has been accused of breaching the ministerial code by failing to record 25 meetings with the fish farming industry. Figures released under freedom of...

Two Scottish councils have loaned millions of pounds to an English council which borrows far more than any other council in the UK and gambles most of it on speculative...

So just a quick update on the crowdfunder to run a new poll on independence.  At the moment (just after 11pm on Saturday night) the running total stands at £5112,...

Yesterday was a depressing day, albeit one of much-needed clarity: two leading members of SAGE finally laid to rest any pretence that the UK government are "following the science".  Professor...

As Scotland’s health secretary hints that our system of social care is in need of a fundamental review, the country’s leaders are being urged to look at the tragic case...

Over a hundred campaigners are asking the Scottish and UK governments not to bail out the petrochemical giant, Ineos, during the coronavirus crisis. Reports have suggested that the company’s refinery...

As I mentioned in the previous post, a number of readers have suggested to me over the last couple of days that now would be a good time to crowdfund...