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I have a new article in The National about the Brecon and Radnorshire result, entitled 'Could by-election-winning Remain alliance work in Scotland?'  You can read it HERE. I see that...

The Times leads its Scottish edition today with a piece on Ruth Davidson’s collapsing popularity with Tory members, which it helpfully illustrates with a graph. Alert readers will notice, however,...

Isn’t England in a mess? It is very rapidly becoming a failed state. We will all pay dearly for this money that he is squandering. I mean seriously, whether you...

2 August 2018: Ruth Davidson is the second most popular Tory with party members surveyed by Conservative Home, and regularly spoken of by the press as a potential future Prime...

Investigations have been launched into four safety incidents at the Hunterston B nuclear power station in North Ayrshire, according to the UK government’s nuclear watchdog. The plant’s operator, EDF Energy,...

An environmentalist who highlights problems with Scotland’s fish farming industry has accused Police Scotland of acting as “private security” for a Norwegian-owned firm operating farms along Scotland’s west coast. Don...

So a few quick thoughts about the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election result...* The big paradox is that the Liberal Democrats won, and they won essentially because they are a Remain...

The efforts of departments in the Scottish Government to improve their freedom of information performance have been “disappointing”, according to Scotland’s information watchdog. The Scottish Information Commissioner, Daren Fitzhenry, has...

Questions over future of lamb. Photograph Russell Bruce for Newsnet By Russell Bruce Farmers want to know how they can survive when crashing out of the EU means sales of...

There have been 112 reports of incursions into Scotland’s protected seas over the past four years, prompting claims that rogue fishermen are increasingly involved in illegal scallop dredging and prawn...