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THREATS of a return to austerity were on the table at PMQs this week. Opposition MPs called for no return to austerity in next week’s Bud...

A NEW variant of the coronavirus has been identified in New York City that was first seen late last year, according to researchers.

DISCRIMINATION and what constitutes it has been the subject of new and raging debates of late. Among them is the contentious issue of so-...

AN investigation is under way after eight Iraqi interpreters claimed they are living in fear for their lives after being abandoned by the...

SCOTLAND’S public spending watchdog has called for greater transparency from the Scottish Government over its spending on the coronavirus...

FINANCE Secretary Kate Forbes has urged MSPs to back her tax and spending plans for the coming year – saying these provide a “solid found...

BORIS Johnson has not ruled out a return to "Tory austerity cuts" after he was pressed on his government’s spending plans.

BORIS Johnson has refused to call for a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics over China’s treatment of Uighurs.

THE SNP​ has called on Rishi Sunak to rule out a return to Tory austerity cuts after the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) figures sh...

FOUR books from Australia are among the contenders for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, with the announcement coinciding wi...

A EUROPEAN Parliament committee has voted to remove the parliamentary immunity from three Catalan MEPs – former president Carles Puigdemont...

SCOTLAND is generally described as a small nation (it’s actually average-sized) it is smaller than the UK but that doesn’t mean it would...

A “FUNDAMENTAL examination” of Scotland’s tax system is required to combat inequality, Holyrood's Finance Committee has concluded.

SCORES of people have been arrested after thousands of people took part in demonstrations across Catalonia in support of jailed rapper Pa...

ALL independence-minded politicians should be able to answer this question: what is Scotland’s global sustainable competitive advantage t...

WHEN will we see his like again? Hopefully, not very soon and preferably never again. Rush Limbaugh is dead, my eyes are bone dry and the...

I WAS pleased to read Tim Rideout and John Robson’s, “We need to bust the myth that a deficit is a bad thing” (Letters, February 17). It...

MOGADISHU is no stranger to the sounds of mortar and machinegun fire. And once again last Friday, Somalia’s capital city found itself bec...

THE Queen has had her tax bill slashed by thousands of pounds for three Scottish shooting estates including Balmoral after making a succe...

“THERE is still a long way to go before the government’s house is in order” – these were the words of the Good Law Project after its High...

CHELSEA Clinton reached out to Scotland last night after it was announced that New Zealand would be making sanitary products free to all...

A SCOTTISH town has been identified as the top property hotspot in Britain, with asking prices there surging by 15% over the past year.

TAX crimes cost the UK economy nine times more than benefit fraud – but residents are 23 times more likely to be prosecuted for the latte...

PUBLISHING Scotland has announced that its Translation Fund, designed to support international publishers with the translation of Scottish a...

SCOTLAND is “committed to exploring closer links” with Nordic countries post-Brexit through a body set up to advance the region’s common...