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Scotland’s farmers are facing an uncertain future as the Brexit negotiations falter, with the National Farmers Union leader calling a ‘no deal’ EU exit an “armageddon scenario” for the industry....

An alert reader sent us a piece of interesting follow-up info to yesterday’s piece on NHS Scotland costs. Because comparable figures for NHS England are available too, and they make...

As I've spent a fair bit of the last 48 hours having exchanges (sometimes downright surreal exchanges) about this subject on Twitter, I thought I might as well make the...

Aye, some serious expectation management going on methinks. Take us to the edge (apparently), then suddenly May comes back with the worst deal imaginable and……. it’s hailed as a great...

A British businessman imprisoned in Belarus has staged a hunger strike in protest at the conditions in which he and others are being held. Alan Smith stopped eating for eight...

The BBC front page headline for this is actually just the alarming-sounding “Scottish prescription costs rise by 25%”, without even the qualifier about the timespan. It’s worse than that, though. Because...

I don’t usually comment here, the quality of Dateline 2018’s output however, has left me no choice. It’s not just the news where you are, it’s the news where everyone...

Tommy Sheppard MP In the day before Westminster broke up, for the summer that is – Westminster has been breaking up day after day during the course of this parliament,...

A campaign group has written to the Westminster’s Commissioner for Standards to request an investigation into the conduct of two Tory MPs after we highlighted inconsistencies in their reporting of...

If you vote Scottish Labour: And if you vote Scottish Conservative: Always good to know. We’re starting shopping now to beat the rush, folks. Category comment, scottish politics, uk politics...