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AS THE CONCERNS of the Coronavirus and its economic consequences take centre stage in Israel, the world awaits the promulgation of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan for the annexation of...

Dave Thompson, a former SNP MSP and 55 year veteran of the party, who is now setting up a list vote coalition in defiance of it in the 2021 elections,...

BORIS JOHNSON worked hard to link Brexit to the end of austerity, and a brave new life of British economic expansion. The new ‘roaring twenties’ (a phrase actually deployed by...

We spoke to Excluded UK, an organisation that sprung up to support the 3 million people that have been excluded from government support during the Covid-19 pandemic. “I’ve just been...

Suddenly everyone’s talking about Brexit and ‘power-grabs’ again. It’s 25 months yesterday since SNP MPs staged a walk-out from the House of Commons over the “power-grab” of the EU Withdrawal...

Sunday’s Spanish regional elections in the Basque Autonomous Community and Galicia did not produce a surprise in terms of the victors, but it did show that the trend of rising...

AS SCOTLAND slides into the territory of solid and sustained majority support for independence, relations between the Scottish and UK Governments are becoming ever more frosty. Tensions are increasing and...

On Source Direct yesterday morning we asked what the Scottish Finance Secretary Kate Forbes would do differently from the Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s mini-budget on Wednesday. The answer soon followed. Forbes announced a...

“THIS CRISIS has highlighted the special bond that holds our country together. Millions of people in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, have been protected by the UK Government’s intervention, and...

Despite the Court of Appeal ruling a year ago that the UK government’s actions in selling arms to Saudi Arabia were “unlawful”, they are now set to resume sales. “They...