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The decline of sterling By Russell Bruce The pound is not what it was in global terms. Over the centuries the major dominant currencies have changed. Going back a millennium...

All political discourse is plagued with genuine imbeciles, of course. But what’s far more depressing is when educated and normally perceptive people merely act like imbeciles for money, such as the case...

"The British people want us to get this done!" says Theresa May, implying that they want parliament to endorse her Brexit deal.  The only snag: opinion polling suggests they want...

Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people in Scotland are facing “worry and uncertainty” because the company which provides their care is running out of money. After an English regulator warned...

The City of Edinburgh Council has broken the law 466 times in the last year by placing homeless families in bed and breakfast (B&B) accommodation for more than seven days....

Something very creepy about May’s pictures when she’s on BBC 5Live… I don’t know if the fish eyed lens and halo effect was contrived, probably not, but take it together...

Because we know the poor lad’s not very bright. Yes, Murdo. Yes it has. Still, it’s only good for 40 years or so. What will we do THEN, eh? Category...

Robin McAlpine has another article over at CommonSpace in which he castigates the leadership of "the movement" (by which he presumably means Nicola Sturgeon and her colleagues) for inaction on...

It’s always the ones you least suspect, isn’t it? Of course, there are differences between the UK and Norway: At some point they had to put two and two together, we suppose....

Cracks that are spreading in two ageing nuclear power reactors at Hunterston in North Ayrshire have delayed plans to reopen them until 2019. EDF Energy has postponed the scheduled restart...