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Scotland will be vulnerable to outbreaks of infectious diseases and less prepared to tackle them, if a ‘hard’ EU withdrawal from the European Union (EU) takes place next March, according...

Clive Ponting is the original British whistleblower. Long before Assange and Snowden, Ponting leaked details of a cover-up that shook the British political establishment. Working as a senior civil servant...

Information on individuals barred from working with children will no longer be shared with Scotland’s criminal records disclosure agency after Brexit, ministers have been warned. The revelation has sparked concern...

When Will the War Be By? By Russell Bruce Powerful film made by Michael Russell. Scottish poems, songs and writing of the First World War made by Eala Bhan Ltd...

ONS statistical note 11/11/11 By Russell Bruce This 100 year image heads an ONS statistical note released today and they have mislaid over 400,000 British Imperial military deaths. If we...

This piece ran in the Telegraph – a newspaper with no Scottish edition and almost no Scottish sales – on Friday. Click to enlarge. Our favourite line is: “Think of what...

Brexit could damage university research in Scotland for at least a decade, hitting funding, vital collaborations and disciplines crucial to the economy, confidential documents have revealed. Scotland’s universities are said...

Your occasional reminder about who’s been governing us since we refused to take the responsibility for it ourselves. To be quite honest, readers, if we’re going to leave our future...

In the Johnston Press stable the Scotsman is in fact outsold by the i - by 20 to 1 - but also by the Yorkshire Post, the Portsmouth News and...

A Scottish baronet has been called upon to help preserve his ancestor’s castle in Sierra Leone as a monument to the brutality of 18th century slave trade. Sir Patrick Grant...