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SCOTLAND has the only government in the world which, while seeking freedom from an unfriendly parent state, is also asking it to send in tro...

MUCH of the coverage of the French reaction to AUKUS focuses on the loss of the commercial contract.

THE UK is facing soaring gas prices, with several energy suppliers going out of business and shuttering some factories.

OVER the last few months in The National, the SBFG has set out how, with independence, we can take charge of our own future by establishing...

THE speakers of governments across the G7 nations are set to call on social media platforms to prevent trolling after a conference discussin...

IT was reported this week that scientists have discovered the damage caused by CO2 emissions caused by the wildfires in Australia has been m...

IT’S been a testy time on the international diplomatic front of late...

IT’S over for another year. The annual commemoration of 9/11 and the al-Qaeda attack on America is such a recurring fixture in the global me...

FRANCE has taken the dramatic step of recalling its ambassadors to the United States and Australia in the worsening row over their nuclear s...

DEBATE at party conferences can easily end up being narrowly focused, and inward-looking. After 14 years in government, this seems to happen...

IT is an eastern Caribbean island nation that has hosted a Celtic music festival since the 1990s and even has its own official tartan in blu...

THE number of European Union nationals who are living in the UK has fallen, figures show.

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MARKS & Spencer has said it will close 11 of its stores in France due to fresh and chilled food supply issues following Brexit.

LOW-EARNING families in Scotland are set for a payout of £320 in the coming months, under Scottish Government plans.

THE British press is fond of reporting lurches to the right across Europe – even though they rarely produce the authoritarian governments co...

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SCOTLAND'S GDP grew by almost five per cent in the past few months as coronavirus restrictions eased, according to new figures.

INFLATION in the UK has surged to the highest level in almost a decade after rising at the fastest pace on record last month as food prices...

MORE than £8.8 billion is estimated to have been spent by the Scottish Government from its allocation of £9.3bn to support spending on Covid...

TWO new ferries which will serve Islay and Jura will not be built in Scotland, the Government-backed vessel procurement body has said, despi...

IF I had to roughly paraphrase the different general thrusts of capitalism v socialism, it would be “useful inequality” versus “equality”. N...

POST-Brexit border controls on food and farming imports from the EU are to be delayed again, a UK minister has confirmed.

THE SNP conference has urged the UK Government to recognise the impact of hastily agreed post-Brexit trade deals on Scotland's agricultural...

A TORY minister has been dubbed detached from reality after making false claims about how Universal Credit claimants can offset an upcoming...