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NUCLEAR WEAPONS are illegal. You may not have heard this news. It didn’t exactly receive wrap-around coverage in countries like the UK, presently engaged in an expensive renovation of the...

The impact of changes to the export of seafood post-Brexit could cost £7 billion annually, and the livelihoods of many in the Scottish fishing industry. “It is vital that the...

THE INVESTIGATION INTO the Scottish Government’s handling of the Salmond affair has consumed column inches and online discussions. But that’s all happening in bubbles of political trainspotters. What about public...

MANY of you will not need reminding – and will probably not thank me for doing so – that after next month, a new council tax bill will be on...

TRY AS WE MIGHT, it has proved impossible to prise Donald Trump from the global headlines. The latest instalment of this never-ending soap opera is a second impeachment process, which,...

IT IS TOO EARLY to address the crisis broiling in our ruling party over the inquiry into the handling of accusations against Alex Salmond. But the prospects for farce were highlighted by...

A follow up review published today by the HMIPS (HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland) looks at how the prison service needs to change to accommodate its ageing population –...

READERS HAVE BEEN ASKING about that Labour Party broadcast, infamous less for Keir Starmer’s words (nothing special) than for its mise-en-scène: the Union Jack hanging “innocently” in the background. This all follows a leaked...

CUT THE VERBIAGE and the recommendations of the ‘Independent’ Review into Adult Social Care which were published on Wednesday may do little other than perpetuate the current system, which failed so...

IT HAS BEEN DUBBED the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world”. The UN called it potentially the worst in half a century, and an “apocalypse”, while putting the total war dead at 233,000....