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IN his address to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (22 May), and in his new role as Lord High Commissioner to the meeting, Prince William said: “I’ll...

Living Rent are campaigning against the development of the old Tynecastle School in Gorgie/Dalry into purpose built student accommodation, as they argue affordable and social housing are much needed in...

MOST EXPECTED AN SNP-Green coalition to emerge organically from the Holyrood election. Then everything went dark, until the SNP announced they were governing as a minority. With cabinet posts declared,...

IN THE WAKE of their victory, the rejoicing stretched far beyond Kenmure Street – as well it should have. When protestors and residents of the Pollokshields neighbourhood first blocked the...

DOMINIC CUMMINGS’ APPEARANCE before the Westminster inquiry today has echoes of the Salmond-Sturgeon split that dominated Holyrood’s pre-election period. Here we have the two founders of contemporary English nationalism and...

IT TOOK DONALD TRUMP and George Floyd for European liberals to grasp that the land of the free was a carceral state founded on racial hierarchies. The evidence should have...

Amnesty International are calling for journalist Raman Pratasevich, former editor-in-chief of the popular opposition Telegram channel NEXTA, to be released, as Belarusian Government forces a Ryanair flight to land in...

IT’S BEEN A TOUGH old decade for the capitalist system. Everything about our economy appears acutely dysfunctional; rising living standards are a thing of the past; and the old Thatcherite...

IF ASKED TO IMAGINE a Whitehall civil servant, thoughts invariably turn to Yes Minister’s Sir Humphrey Appleby, who puts his loquacious upper-class manners and learning to work frustrating government initiatives...

WHAT was Paris Hilton thinking when she tweeted, in reference to the horrific scenes in Palestine in recent weeks: “This is so heartbreaking. This needs to stop! #SavePalestine #GazaUnderAttack #stopthegenocide”?The...