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THE global crisis continues to spread with lightning speed. It only appeared in the light of day a week ago. Western allies were already exp...

THERE are very many reasons to posit Scottish independence as preferable to Unionism, but the UK Government’s deficit is not one of them. Bo...

THE UK’s most deprived areas have more than 10 times as many betting shops as the most affluent parts of the country, new research shows.

You couldn't make it up.

UNINDICTED war criminal and unrepentant liar Tony Blair has piped up to call for more war in Afghanistan. The spectre of the bloodthirsty gh...

IN his column in The National on July 31 – “Some choices about our future are for after independence” – Michael Russell argued that: “We sho...

MORE than £3.6 billion has been used to support businesses in Scotland since the pandemic hit last spring, figures show.

MICHAEL Fry has written in The National that the West must stay out of Afghanistan. He described that the sole survivor of the army from the...

MICHAEL Fry has written in The National that the West must stay out of Afghanistan. He described that the sole survivor of the army from the...

THE Prime Minister of Barbados accused a BBC reporter of portraying her country as a “pawn” with a “disingenuous” question on the country’s...

I HAVE been very much struck by the widespread hypocrisy related to the plight of Afghans who previously helped the British and US military...

SEVEN Afghan civilians have died in the chaotics crowds outside Kabul's international airport, according to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

OUTSIDE Kabul airport a large portrait of Ahmad Shah Massoud adorns a wall of the terminal building. Dotted across the city other giant pict...

I’M a child of the “war of terror.” I was 14 years old when I came home from school to see the Twin Towers falling, and 15 when American and...

SCOTLAND’S deficit figures show the need for independence rather than evidence it cannot afford to go alone, according to a leading economis...

REPORTS of targeted killings in areas overrun by the Taliban mounted yesterday, fuelling fears it will return Afghanistan to the repressive...

MUCH has been written this week about the macro politics of Afghanistan and their global implications. That is inevitable, not least because...

LLOYDS Bank runs more than half of the UK’s bank branches that are the last in their community, according to new figures supplied to MPs.

KATE Forbes is now promising to give Scotland an alternative to GERS as did Derek Mackay before her, but says we need to wait until after th...

LISTENING to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab being interviewed on Tuesday after his wee

SUPPLY issues affecting restaurant chains such as Nando’s and KFC are nothing to do with the “pingdemic” and everything to do with Brexit, o...

A YORKSHIRE man who has been jailed in Singapore for breaching its strict Covid-19 rules will be deported, according to the country’s prison...

I SUPPOSE it was only to be expected but I was still disappointed to see the kneejerk response to the latest GERS figures published yesterda...

THIS year the GERS figures are even more misleading than usual because they have been published in the middle of the pandemic crisis.

I AGREE entirely with