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By Russell Bruce The Conservative party conference resounded to accusations by Sunday Times journalist Charlotte Edwardes that at a private lunch in 1999, Johnson groped her leg under a table,...

What effect would a No Deal Brexit at the end of this month have on the case for independence?  There are two main schools of thought: 1) that people will...

Greyhounds trained or racing in Scotland have tested positive for banned drugs such as cocaine and amphetamine dozens of times. Steroids, beta blockers and prohormones – used by bodybuilders –...

Ashcroft poll? Party attributes UK and Scotland By Russell Bruce Every day seems to brings a new poll at this time of heightened Westminster fervour. Other than they pretty well...

Profits from a controversial new children’s hospital in Edinburgh are being channelled through tax havens to offshore investors, we can reveal, prompting criticism of public sector pension fund managers and...

Scottish councils have been criticised for using their Common Good Funds to pay for council officials to fly off to foreign countries, including Mexico, France and Germany. Highland Council spent...

He’s got no right to shoot from there. There’s less than half an hour to go and we’re holding the previous year’s World Cup finalists on their own patch. A...

So Nicola Sturgeon today repeated her hint of a few weeks ago that the SNP would be prepared to install Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister on a temporary basis to...

Remember this guy? Go on, give it a minute, it’ll come to you. He popped up today to chuck in his tuppence-worth about inflammatory language in politics, and how –...

You now have less than 24 hours left to secure your copy of our intermittent cartoonist Mr Cairns’ latest beautifully-crafted volume of biting political satire featuring a cute lion. (No,...