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JUNTS (Together), the party of the exiled Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, is on course to win the election to the Catalan Parliament...

AMSTERDAM contains multitudes. This week we heard a more than a few Remainer told-you-sos, as the Dam overtook the City of London as a hu...

ON February 14 there will be elections to the Catalan parliament. These are not normal elections in a regional parliament but are yet ano...

WHEN the defence of former president Donald Trump began in the Capitol yesterday evening, it was clear that his legal team was starting o...

IN one of the peculiarities of Spain’s penal system – particularly how it affects their political prisoners – jailed pro-Catalan independ...

THE SNP has said the Chancellor is “threatening the recovery” by cutting off support for jobs and businesses as new figures revealed the...

JUNTS per Catalunya, the party of exiled Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, have maintained pole position against the Socialists (PSC)...

DONALD Trump must be held accountable for his incitement of his supporters to insurrection.

COVID-19 has left more than 27 million adults across the UK with characteristics of vulnerability such as poor health, low financial resilie...

THE Democrat Representatives leading the prosecution of Donald Trump firmly made the case in the Senate yesterday for a guilty verdict on a...

THE minimum wage has been one of the most successful government policy initiatives of recent decades, but it has done little to tackle in-wo...

THERE was anger at a Scottish university last night after it emerged that its principal had returned to his normal six-figure salary whil...

UNIVERSAL Credit will be worth less now than in 2013 if the UK Government goes forward with plans to end the £20 uplift, according to Citize...

THE virus which causes Covid-19 is “extremely unlikely” to have entered the human population as a result of a laboratory-related incident, g...

THE historic second impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump opened in the US Senate yesterday, with prosecuting Democrat represen...

PREPARATION and planning. Vision and audacity.

SINCE 2014 the Chinese government has been engaging in a campaign against the Muslim population of Xinjiang, suppressing expressions of r...

Junts per Catalunya, the party of the exiled Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, has a slight advantage over Esquerra Republicana Catalu...

ALL of Scotland’s six Tory MPs have voted against a Lords amendment which would have forced ministers to withdraw from a free trade agree...

WE can already be certain this is going to be a bad year for Scotland’s backwaters and backwoods. The problems are largely manmade, thoug...

THE SNP has criticised the Tory Government over plans to water down an amendment to the Trade Bill that would outlaw deals with countries...

DESPITE Dry January proving popular this year, a Scottish brewery has seen a massive rise in the sales of its beers.

ON January 22, the United Nations ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: they are now illegal, globally. So what? We...

THE disastrous impact of Brexit on Scotland’s exporters has been branded “completely unforgivable” after the full extent of the staggerin...

FOR most of us it was a rat of a year we were glad to see the back of – but for the Chinese 2020 was the Year of the Rat, which was meant...