Taking the easy way out is the rapid route to oblivion, says John McLaren, except perhaps in Scotland?

Ninety years ago this Sunday, antifascist demonstrators routed Oswald Mosley and his supporters when they tried to terrorize the Jews of London’s East End. It’s an important anniversary in a year when a new far-right movement is gathering strength.

As expected, the Green Party has today passed its motion declaring Zionism to be racism, and calling for Israel to be replaced by a single state of Palestine.

The resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

As expected, the Green Party has today passed its motion declaring Zionism to be racism, and calling for Israel to be replaced by a single state of Palestine.

The resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

How to meet the cost of an ageing population? Government already spends significantly more on pensioners than they pay in taxes, and Scotland is getting older…

This morning I don’t have a phone in my pocket and that is a good thing. I just sit and look and feel like a chosen one. A moment of pure magic.

One day Ray and I will write a book on how not to sell and move house. Timing is all and we seem to have a knack for bad timing.

Today’s figures from National Records of Scotland again confirm the tragic and preventable scale of drug-related deaths in…

Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...

On the day when it emerged that 116 more Scots died of drugs than in the previous 12 months, the SNP could have shown so...

The lack of political will to tackle the leftovers of feudalism has left 408 landowners owning half Scotland’s private rural land. And the number is shrinking.

‘Not everything needs to have a Saltire added to it’ is a refreshing and healthy message.

How to control the new gold rush in Scotland? Ray Perman takes the long view of disruptive technology – history can point the way to a strategy that brings real benefits. And it leads to Shetland.

‘Not everything needs to have a Saltire added to it’ is a refreshing and healthy message.

President Trump offered a fiery response to the Federal Reserve’s decision to hike interest rates on Wednesday, demanding instead that rates be drastically lowered quickly.  “Interest Rates i…

The lack of political will to tackle the leftovers of feudalism has left 408 landowners owning half Scotland’s private rural land. And the number is shrinking.

Will SNP government plans to introduce a ceiling on ‘20-50 essentials’ make family shopping in large supermarkets more affordable? Or just stuff the basket with unintended consequences?

A constitutional right that depends upon the changing language of individual prime ministers is not a dependable constitutional right…

Scientists say monthly temperature anomaly of more than 2C is possible as temporary El Niño cycle takes hold in Pacific region

Germany's AfD has hailed a "historic result" and is projected to win more than 44% of the vote, far ahead of the conservative CDU on 18.4%.

Memory entrepreneurship and the radical right’s assault on the postwar order

Are people going to have to increasingly accept more delays and diversions as the effects of climate change intensify?

A text message to a military officer involved in airstrikes included video of an apparent victim with charred skin, with the words: “Your cooking.”

This is a tale of two waterside species. And the often contradictory behaviour of the human species. Make that three waterside species.