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SOURCE WILL FEATURE ANALYSIS of the Scottish budget throughout the day, as public spending dominates the headlines. I am thus focusing on just one controversy arising from the budget: public...

IN A TIME LIKE OURS, the most basic facts are the most radical and bear repetition: we are in our major, global economic crisis in a dozen years. According to...

WHAT DOES BORIS JOHNSON think he’s doing in Scotland? In theory, the answer should be simple: the Scottish Conservatives are struggling, and twenty polls in a row have shown a...

THE UK PASSED a grim milestone yesterday, as Boris Johnson announced that officially recorded coronavirus deaths have passed 100,000. Only five countries have crossed this number: ourselves aside, there is...

MANY are claiming it was the largest global protest against a Western-backed war in the Middle East since 2003, yet the chances are you haven’t heard of it – just...

CORONAVIRUS, MANY IMAGINE, is the great equaliser. Anyone can fall ill, from Prince Charles and Boris Johnson to Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump, so we’re in this together. And “big...

According to research from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at the University of Leeds, global ice loss is speeding up. There has been a 65% increase in the...

WHEN A BIG BEAST of Gordon Brown’s calibre says the UK risks becoming a “failed state”, he will have chosen his words carefully. That term normally refer to countries like Zimbabwe, where...

IN A PREVIOUS Source Direct, I examined the controversy surrounding freeports, a Conservative proposal for special tax-exempt, low regulation enterprise zones. The SNP conference passed a resolution against them. SNP...

SCOTLAND’S FISHING INDUSTRY is in crisis. On Tuesday (19 January), dozens of fishermen travelled to London in lorries emblazoned with slogans attacking the UK Government for botching the Brexit transition...