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SCOTLAND suffers from a ‘time’ conundrum. Okay, it’s not just Scotland, but our country does suffer from the challenges of long and short termism. If I were to say that...

Music Venue Trust has identified 4 grassroots music venues red listed for imminent permanent closure, 65% of musicians are experiencing financial hardship, and 34% are saying they may quit the...

Lockdowns don’t hit all businesses equally. That’s a point that Andrew McRae, the Federation of Small Businesses policy chair, made following the latest announcement of tougher restrictions. He said that...

NO ONE can any longer believe that September 2014 represents consensus on the national question. No one is pretending to believe either, not even Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has...

PERSONALLY, I was shocked – shocked, I say – to hear that Boris Johnson might not be a fan of devolution. The idea that our Conservative prime minister regards the...

Devolution has been a “disaster” in Scotland, and was Tony Blair’s “biggest mistake”. Boris Johnson has only said what is almost certainly the quiet consensus in the British establishment, but...

The Scottish Greens are asking the Scottish Parliament to declare a nature emergency, putting the declaration to Holyrood this Wednesday 18. One in nine Scottish species are facing extinction. “Everyone...

THE TRANSITION from fossil fuels to green energy is underway in Scotland. But it is anything but the vaunted ‘Just Transition’. The profit-driven character of the shift to a diversified...

Two things are clear from the news this morning: a) there’s an election coming, and b) there’s an SNP annual conference soon. A flurry of indyref chatter always precedes these...

In this week’s installment of their series of essays on applying pressure for a second independence referendum, Dr Craig Dalzell and Ellen Höfer consider the mindset required for effective campaigning...