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“THE FIGHTING ERUPTED on Monday after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in East Jerusalem which culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by Muslims and Jews,” reported the BBC. A...

The Queen announced in her speech yesterday the UK government’s plans to move forward with the ban on conversion therapy. “Scotland cannot afford to be left behind in banning these...

THE FIVE YEARS between these two Holyrood elections have been among the most turbulent in modern British history. 2016 brought Brexit and three years of Corbynism, the European Research Group...

ON TUESDAY 10 May, protestors rallied in Glasgow’s George Square, along with many more mobilised around the world, to protest the latest Israeli human rights violations in occupied Palestinian territory,...

Trigger Warning: death and grief. It’s the beginning of Scotland’s ‘Demystifying Death’ Week, and the charity Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief have established a Death Club, as part of...

SOME called it Scotland’s “most important” election – since the last one, at least. The truth, however, is that we’ve been here before: a victorious SNP, its enemies driven before...

“I THINK Scottish democracy, like most democracies around the world, is reaching crisis point”, says Willie Sullivan, Senior Director at the Electoral Reform Society Scotland (ERSS). Before our interview starts,...

PEOPLE rarely get the election they want, least of all voters. Those who practice or comment upon politics for a living often take a grim kind of relish in telling...

This year, the 70th anniversary of the year of the UN Refugee Convention, refugees have been given the right to vote in the Scottish Parliamentary elections for the first time....

IT WAS THE WORST of elections; it was the most decisive of elections. But the agony will soon be over. Last-minute polls are suggesting some grounds for uncertainty: will the...