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THERE WAS A VICTORY for victor’s justice yesterday, as the International Criminal Court (ICC) formally abandoned its long-running investigation into alleged UK war crimes in Iraq. The decision, Human Rights...

Glasgow City Council’s consultation ‘How Good are Glasgow’s Places?’ comes to an end on the 11th, giving people the chance to have their say on how development gets taken forward...

THERE WAS FURTHER RELIEF for Scotland’s communities yesterday, as Education Secretary John Swinney bowed to the inevitable and cancelled next year’s Higher and Advanced Higher exams. Teaching unions had warned...

FOR innumerable reasons, no one would ever mistake Nicola Sturgeon for Oliver Cromwell. Not before yesterday anyway, when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived in Edinburgh by ‘royal train’...

Today marks a genuine turning point in the struggle with the coronavirus pandemic, as the first vaccine roll out begins in UK and Scottish hospitals. This is major and welcome...

Despite not formally being a signatory of the climate agreement, Scotland will be publishing its own ‘Nationally Determined Contribution’ ahead of COP26 which will be held in Glasgow next year....

BY RECEIVED WISDOM, the Scottish Government has had a good crisis. The ruling SNP looks set for a bumper return at the upcoming devolved elections, and the first minister commands...

In the final part of The Pressure Series, Ellen Höfer and Craig Dalzell look at how Scotland can use pressure on and from the international community to help Scotland become...

BEYOND its global impact on all of us, the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated many pre-existing inequalities. One major confirmation of this has been provided by a recent report carried out...

“WE WON.” Such was the reaction from Scotland’s tenants’ union Living Rent to the Scottish Government’s long-overdue announcement that regulations will be introduced to legally prevent any evictions during the...