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So the Russkie smoking gun on indyref is…”credible open source commentary”. What that means to you and I is: articles that anyone can find online. This is the extent of...

THE LATEST PIVOT in the escalation of tensions between the US and its allies, including the UK, has been over the treatment of the Uighur people in the northwestern Xinjiang...

There was a fantastic piece of journalism on Channel 4 News last night, as Alex Thomson visited the town of Langholm in Dumfries & Galloway to see the land which the...

The most remarkable thing about US President Donald Trump is not the amount of enemies he accrues. Nasty attacks on opponents is his way of doing politics. The remarkable thing...

IMAGINE being denied the right to see the person dearest to you for eighteen weeks, being unable to communicate with them by any means during this period and not knowing...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s ‘A stronger Scottish lifeline in the economic storm’, a briefing paper published yesterday, is a good starting point for debate about what needs to be in the Scottish...

IN MARCH OF 2018, I watched as thousands of demonstrators stood in defiance against an anticipated post-Brexit power grab by the UK Government, locking arms and surrounding the Scottish Parliament...

REACTING to rioting in Handsworth and Brixton in 1981 as unemployment surged under Margaret Thatcher, her Secretary of State for unemployment Norman Tebbitt said: “I grew up in the 30s...

I HAVE a difficult history with unity. As a political strategist, I have no difficulty in seeing its benefits; as a human being who hopes for a better future I...

A new study has found a record-breaking heatwave in Siberia was made 600 times more likely by man-made climate change. Temperatures in the far north of Russia were more than...