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BORIS Johnson has landed in Scotland, but he’ll be skulking around through back doors and back alleys hoping to avoid any embarrassing si...

FINANCE Secretary Kate Forbes has pleaded with the other parties in Holyrood to back what she has called “the most important Budget in the h...

THE impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump formally got under way yesterday.

THE Gaelic Books Council (GBC) has hailed a massive spike in online sales as Covid closures fuel a reading boom.

SALMON producers are calling for the creation of a cross-border government task force to stop Brexit buckling business.

THE White House coronavirus adviser who clashed with Donald Trump over the pandemic is to join an Edinburgh University debate on Covid-19...

IT had been 60 years since I last tuned in live to the inaugural address of a US president, and John F Kennedy’s was one to remember. To...

THE UK's unemployment rate has soared to its highest level for more than four years as official figures showed nearly 830,000 workers hav...

IT took two years for former president Donald Trump to have his policy on banning transgender people from the US armed forces, and yesterday...

BUILDING affordable housing should be the “the cornerstone of Scotland’s recovery”, Finance Secretary Kate Forbes has been told ahead of Thu...

KATE Forbes has announced her engagement, moments after support for the wedding industry was announced.

A FUND of £25 million to support the wedding sector and its supply chain is to open to applications this week.

INTERNATIONAL French-language media outlets have taken an interest in the growing disunity of the United Kingdom after new polls revealed...

THE show must go on and American politics lived up to its billing. Democracy regrouped this week in the wake of the seditious storming of...

FORMER president Donald Trump plotted to oust his acting attorney general in another attempt to overturn the election result, it has been...

IT has become the symbolic timepiece that measures humanity’s proximity to Armageddon.

AMIDST the gloom of a lockdown January it’s hard to see a bright side but a silver lining to the coronavirus cloud could be the number of...

ROBERT Burns once opined: "WI’ usquabae, we’ll face the devil!”, and in a week when Scots everywhere toast the National Bard with a dram...

FINANCE Secretary Kate Forbes has pledged this week’s budget will focus on Scotland’s recovery from Covid, with targeted measures to help...

THE symbolism is certainly pleasing enough. Out goes the Churchill statue from Joe Biden’s White House office. In its place comes a bust...

A “MEDIOCRE, milquetoast neoliberal centrist”. That’s how Dr Cornel West describes the new president, and he’s right.

PROPONENTS for the Union are not making the case for a positive outlook for Scotland in the United Kingdom, a former SNP MSP and economis...

TODAY marks the day when the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force at the United Nations.

A HAGGIS has been launched to the edge of space for the first time as Burns Night celebrations reached new heights.

THE inauguration of Joe Biden this week has been a moment of hope in dark and difficult times. It has reminded us that national renewal i...