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The UK announced that armed forces personnel would be compensated for tax changes brought in by the Scottish Government. In a statement in July, defence secretary Gavin Williamson announced “an...

Readers may have noted a fairly concerted attempt over the last 18 months or so by the opponents of Scottish independence to get Wings Over Scotland shut down. But sometimes...

The risk of refugees and migrants drowning in the Mediterranean has increased dramatically over the past few years. As the European Union pursued a policy of externalisation, voluntary groups stepped...

The Scottish Daily Mail fished this story out of the news toilet today: So “man with major and important job gets paid the same rate for a full day’s work...

There’s not much going on in Scottish politics at the moment, but you know that when the media resorts to printing stuff from echo-skulled Tory mousewit Annie Wells, there can’t even have...

Scots council pension funds have shares worth £110 million in US arms giants linked to an alleged war crime in Yemen when 40 children were killed. Campaigners now believe the...

The Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) is facing criticism after it decided not to punish a fish farming company caught on film with lice-infested salmon....

Scotland’s forests are treated and sprayed every year with hundreds of kilograms of a toxic pesticide blamed for killing bees and butterflies, The Ferret can reveal. Our investigation has uncovered...

The rural economy minister, Fergus Ewing, should get his cabinet colleague, Michael Russell, to “draw in his horns” and stop trying to ban toxic pesticides, according to a leaked email...

So as you'll probably remember, the first polling straw in the wind after the Alex Salmond story broke was a Scottish subsample from a GB-wide YouGov poll, and although it...