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KENNY MACASKILL IS one of the reasons I’m wary of the chorus denouncing the Alba Party. Steeped in socialist tradition, but not in contemporary “leftist” groupthink, MacAskill is one of...

COALITION wrangling looks set to install Naftalia Bennett as Israeli prime minister, finally displacing Benjamin Netanyahu after a prolonged political deadlock. The Likud party leader, the longest serving prime minister...

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; supporting girls’ education; the provision of clean water; the prevention of HIV/AIDS; humanitarian assistance to war-torn Yemen and Syria. Question: what links these morally unimpeachable, almost tediously worthy...

RECENTLY, the Promise Scotland, who are busy drawing up plans for radically improving the experiences of looked-after children, tweeted that they had already congratulated the person appointed as chair of...

Thousands of asylum seekers have been left without money or access to food for 10 days, as the Home Office transferred to a new contract – many of the new...

THE RHETORIC WOULD have you believe we are undergoing a green revolution. There are certainly gestures in that direction: Joe Biden, for instance, has just suspended oil and gas leases...

IN JANUARY 2021, in the run-up to the anniversary of Brexit, the Scottish Government announced plans for a “new model of green ports” – a spin on the UK Government...

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN in the devolved sub-state of Scotland. Or at least, allegations to that effect refuse to subside and dominate today’s headlines. This last weekend has seen two high...

LAST WEEK, the Mental Welfare Commission (MWC) – a public body that has survived and kept its original name since it was created in 1960 – published its report into...

I CAN’T CLAIM to have much social media experience, nor can I claim to know anything about the Eurovision Song Contest. But I will defend the right of Glasgow SNP...