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A SMALL bookshop in Wester Ross has created a flutter in the Twittersphere as retailers across Scotland reopened on Monday after the lock...

AN interesting aspect of election campaigning is that you are in the community and get to talk about politics with strangers – scary but...

TO put it plainly, the UK Government's New Plan for Immigration represents the biggest threat to refugee rights in the UK for decades.

AN SNP candidate who has direct experience of the UK asylum system has hit out at new Tory plans for immigration.

THE Scottish Government is to be challenged on laws restricting hospitality and night-time economy businesses by a group of industry boss...

NICOLA Sturgeon has dismissed the "ridiculous notion" that RBS moving its headquarters to London if Scotland became independent would aff...

“SNP 'cut 22,000 council jobs', claims pro-union campaign group” – Scotsman headline, April 28, 2021.

MANY pundits in the US and elsewhere predicted that it would only be a matter of time before former president Donald Trump would be summoned...

WATER. Without it, we as human beings would cease to exist. That’s not a political viewpoint, it’s an unequivocal fact. Whatever a person...

THE UK Government will slash bilateral funding for overseas water, sanitation and hygiene projects by more than 80%, a leaked memo has re...

THE election of Iran to the UN committee on women’s rights has been called “surreal” and “morally reprehensible” by activists due to its dis...

POLITICIANS and human rights groups have reacted with horror to the news that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been jailed for a further yea...

ACROSS Scotland cafes, beer gardens, non-essential shops and museums are re-opening today as coronavirus lockdown restrictions ease.

CONFIDENCE is rising among Scotland’s local and independent firms, according to new research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

SCOTLAND’S Towns Partnership is urging people to support shops and attractions that are close to home as more Covid-19 restrictions are rela...

NICOLA Sturgeon will today say that Scotland’s recovery must be in Scotland’s hands as she highlights the SNP’s plans for a £25 million tour...

IN our third article, published in The National a week ago, the Scottish Banking & Finance Group described some of the characteristics of...

A SENIOR Tory minister has insisted that Boris Johnson paid for refurbishments to his Downing Street flat from "his own pocket", but was...

SCOTTISH families of Asian soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for Britain during the Fisrt World War have welcomed the news that th...

THERE are few cities like it anywhere. The very name conjures up so much in the minds of so many people. Standing battle scarred from tho...

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has blasted the UK Government after it was revealed girls’ education is one of the areas hardest hit...

THE Scottish Tories have been urged to ditch their “Dickensian” tax cuts which would see their own MSPs benefit from about £40,000.

ALBA Party leader Alex Salmond yesterday launched the Alba Highlands and Islands campaign in a bid to put the areas at the forefront of econ...

MY family life is currently full of football stories that seem more about hard commerce, and sometimes even harder politics, than anythin...

IT is extremely encouraging to read the views from Dr Tim Rideout, Convener of the Scottish Currency Group, as he states in his letter (A...