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WHEN lockdown returned this month, familiar in all the wrong ways, there were those who hoped – probably without much cause – that some lessons might have been learnt by...

THE TRIALS of one Annemarie Plas have indicated a wider change in public mood.On Thursday (7 January), she distanced herself from ‘Clap for Heroes’, the sequel to her widely acclaimed,...

FOOD POVERTY IS our lead story in Source, following yesterday’s statements from Marcus Rashford and others over the paltry parcels handed to free school meal entitled children. “FSM Hampers are currently...

“HE who feeds you also imposes his will… He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you.” So said Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, at...

I WILL PREFACE THIS by saying that sport is not my area. But there is no escaping it: my own dear football club has risen to the top of the...

THERE IS A RUMBLING debate about the timing of a proposed Scottish independence referendum, highlighted by remarks from Labour’s Keir Starmer and the SNP’s John Swinney. Polls show support for...

IF THERE IS anything we have learned from the events that transpired in Washington DC on Wednesday – anything useful, at any rate – it is that there are more...

A SUCCESSION OF grim headlines suggest that the pandemic will continue to dominate our lives in 2021. The new strain continues its surge through the UK: in Scotland there are...

THERE was a time when commentators used to speak of ‘gradualist’ and ‘fundamentalist’ Scottish nationalists. There’s more than one reason the phraseology has fallen out of fashion. Of course, it...

THE YEAR 2021 should be a crucial one for the independence movement – but I really fear that we’re going to muck it up again. It should be the year...