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I HAVE LONG BEEN sceptical that Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP leadership has any imminent plans to move towards independence. And I’m not alone in this assessment – most insiders are privately...

ADAM TOMKINS has worn many hats in his time – Tory MSP, Professor of Law, possibly the most inexplicable of the late Alasdair Gray’s collaborators – but he is arguably...

OUTSIDERS TO SCOTLAND could easily be baffled at Scottish Labour’s electoral struggles. Recent events appear to be auspicious. They’ve elected an affable new leader. They’ve focused on covid recovery rather...

Abellio ScotRail has shown a pre-tax loss of £64.5m, and has had a dramatic drop in passenger numbers due to Covid-19. The Scottish government will be ending Abellio’s franchise but...

A SAVANTA ComRes poll for The Scotsman has projected the SNP failing to win an overall majority in Holyrood, and a dip in support for Scottish independence to 45 per...

TODAY MARKS EARTH DAY, and its significance should be registered on four levels: planetary, geopolitical, historical and local (in our case, Scottish). Firstly, climate change and environmental protection are perhaps...

WITH LUCK, for many of you, this past week will have been different from those that preceded it. I hope so. I hope the early relaxation of Scotland’s Covid restrictions...

With 4 in 10 children in single parent families living in poverty, the Scottish government has a way to go to meet its child poverty targets. The Scottish Government is...

THERE HAS ALWAYS been an authoritarian stench to the land of the free. Libertarian America has the largest prison population in the world, and the highest incarceration rate. Violence stalks...

A NEW STUC REPORT is necessary reading for all those worried about what our post-pandemic future may hold. ‘Who is Winning from Covid-19’, by economists Laurie Macfarlane and Christine Berry,...