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There was some discussion on the previous thread about whether today's announcement that parliament will soon be prorogued can appropriately be described as a "suspension of democracy", given that brief...

Scottish police have been accused of “doing nothing” about an allegation of sexual abuse against a Rangers football scout based in Edinburgh’s Canongate. In July 1992 former Rangers youth player,...

Today, a bunch of politicians who were to all intents and purposes attempting to arrange a coup have been complaining that the government has beaten them to it by organising...

On Orkney a revolution is under way, made of wind, sun and sea waves. Fifteen kilometres off the north coast of Scotland, this archipelago of twenty islands has become the...

We see Gordon Brown is celebrating his 500th article promising “federalism” in the Scottish media today. Which is nice. We always enjoy hearing about the stuff Labour pretends it’s going...

Arms firms due to attend a trade event dubbed a “festival of violence” gave MP’s more than £60,000 in donations, we can reveal, prompting concerns over the privileged access multinationals...

Strictly speaking we've had one full-scale Scottish poll since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister - the now-legendary Ashcroft poll that gave Yes a narrow lead on the independence question, and...

Dear men (& others),I have a penis because I was born a boy, if you don't wanna have sex with me, that's understandable & you're not bigoted or transphobic. I'm...

My #GERS article in today's @ScotNational.You have underestimated just how much Scotland needs more migrants. If the Tories really do reduce migration to the "tens of thousands", Scotland alone could...

If you’re a writer for a living and you want to check if something you’ve written might be embarrassingly stupid, there’s an easy and quick technique you can use.By way of...