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AS ELSEWHERE in the UK and large parts of the western world, access to a savagely commodified housing market has become a key issue in Scotland – but are our...

NEIL MACKAY IS one of Scotland’s most respected columnists – and one of the most reliably pro-Sturgeon. His scathing assessment of the SNP’s campaign therefore merits attention: it’s one thing...

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN recently told the truth. I am, for once, not being glib when I say that this is a pretty big deal. Last week, Biden became the first...

DOUBTLESS THIS ELECTION has been dreary, but theoretically it should be decisive: Scotland’s Biggest Election Ever. Five years on from the Brexit vote, everything has been leading to this moment...

SOMETIMES THE GREAT voting public has a gift for piercing to the heart of the matter. In a recent Ashcroft survey, respondents were asked to compare political leaders to animals....

TONY BLAIR – former prime minister, war criminal and, it now seems, the scourge of Carpathia – resurfaced over the past week to offer a few choice opinions. I don’t...

A new report by ‘Don’t Bank on the Bomb’ has revealed the extent of the investment by Scottish organisations into companies producing nuclear weapons. “These companies are involved in a...

IT’S BECOMING CLEAR that Nicola Sturgeon’s case for independence has intellectual gaps. Pundits have twigged to the difficulties in reconciling the SNP’s various foreign policy and trade commitments. Iain Macwhirter...

WITH THE HOLYROOD election likely to end in a whimper, Westminster has had more “bang” than a detonation at a fireworks factory. Boris Johnson won back precious credibility with Britain’s...

IN THE LAST couple of weeks, the reasons for the Covid disaster in care homes a year ago, which were largely ignored by the review of Adult Social Care, have...