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A SIGNIFICANT number of Scots want another independence referendum within the next five years but the outcome would be split, according t...

SCOTLAND has a “radical opportunity” to introduce a universal basic income (UBI), with the next Scottish Parliament expected to have a ma...

IRAN is speeding up its nuclear programme as attempts to resuscitate the 2015 accord broken by former US President Donald Trump fail to m...

ONE afternoon seven years ago, I found myself gazing out from the window of a Ukrainian Airlines Boeing-737 at the flat steppe landscape...

NORTH Sea oil has played a central role in the debate over Scotland’s economy and the country’s future since it was discovered in the 196...

GEORGE Floyd died of a lack of oxygen from being pinned facedown on the pavement with his hands cuffed behind him, a medical expert said at...

AN expat Scot resident in Spain has warned that many others may not be on the country’s vaccine roll-out list after he only managed to se...

IN our first article, which was published in The National on March 26, the Scottish Banking & Finance Group (SBFG) proposed that Scotland...

THERE seems to be some unity amongst Scottish think tanks this week. Sir Tom Hunter’s Foundation and Common Weal are both calling for a n...

START-UP enterprises, small to medium-sized firms (SMEs) and larger companies are to share a combined package of £2.8 million in funding...

IT certainly came as an unhappy coincidence when last week, after I publicly declared my support for the new pro-independence party, Alba...

THE SNP have hit back at Gordon Brown after he attacked the Scottish Government over its response to the pandemic.

THESE are the issues the Scottish people must focus on ahead of next month’s election, a leading think tank says.

THERE are many unprecedented aspects to this most unprecedented Scottish Parliament election. Most notably, all parties are treating it a...

BORN in 1947, and having gained degrees from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and then Leeds and York University, Toronto, Niyi Osundar...

THE SNP have said that the choice of “Bairns not Bombs” has never been clearer after the publication of a report which says that removing...

POLITICS and the pandemic. Everywhere across the world the two are currently inextricably connected. But perhaps nowhere have they create...

The FT has published the first part of what it says will be a series on the risk of the UK breaking up. The article considers the economi...

THE SNP has pledged to help Scotland’s high streets, with a promise of cash being spent to encourage Scots to shop locally and support retai...

‘LEADING Scottish Government economic adviser says ‘it would be a pity if the UK splits up’”! Fair enough, it’s an irresistible headline,...

WESTMINSTER has refused to deny that it demanded the deletion of an academic blog post which said there were “no obvious reasons” to doub...

THE SNP has pledged to help Scotland’s high streets, with a promise of cash being spent to encourage Scots to shop locally and support re...

A BLOG post from a UK Government adviser, arguing there are “no reasons” to believe an independence Scotland wouldn’t be economically suc...

EVEN as he was leaving the White House in January there were many lawyers and pundits predicting that Donald Trump would soon be

GEORGE Floyd’s girlfriend cried in court as she told the story of how they first met in 2017 at a Salvation Army shelter where Floyd was...