Kate Forbes, the former finance minister and Deputy First Minister (FM) of Scotland’s devolved SNP administration, is the newest columnist for Lachlan Murdoch’s Sunday Times.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has broken ten years of establishment omertà over Putin’s plot to get Britain out of the EU, reports Peter Jukes

Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.

Twenty arrested in first march since Ed Miliband declared UK’s position was that Israel’s occupation of West Bank was unlawful

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There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale

openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 10 October 2026

The latest National Conservatism conference, held in Jerusalem, was co-sponsored by an Israeli NGO sanctioned by the EU and Canada reveals Nafeez Ahmed

On October 2nd, 28-year-old Daria Shipilova, a lab worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, died from pneumonia at the Shelekhov District Hospital.

One of the barriers to creating a land tax in Scotland is the fact that our Land Register is incomplete and we don’t know who owns Scotland. Instead of seeing it as a barrier though, it may be an oppo...

Caroline Lucas has reacted angrily to Zack Polanski’s woeful campaign in Holborn and St Pancras and will not rule out asking him to step aside.

France has been rocked by waves of student-led protests, and as we all know, mass demonstrations in a foreign country are proof that regime change is needed.

FGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy

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THE Conservatives will review devolution and strip the Scottish parliament of powers if they win the next General Election ...

ALT: Gordon Ramsay: Let's F*cking Go

There was a major spike in Polymarket bets predicting the Iran War, an hour before Trump's strikes began, new analysis finds

Israel is using today as a propaganda opportunity, so it’s essential we set the record straight.

After nailing his colours to the mast at the Labour Conference, Andy Burnham has ended the political theatre of reality-denial, grounding politics in the issues of livelihood, argues Anthony Barnett