Politicians will need to be alive to the social consequences of the growing trend towards what’s being described as ‘the free market on steroids’

The US National Security Strategy suggests the Trump administration plans to support far and hard-right parties in European countries, while leaving it to its own defences

Donald Trump thinks he should win the Nobel Peace Prize, but he also knows that he won’t

TV star and farmer Jeremy Clarkson warns this year’s harvest is expected to be ‘catastrophic’ because of bad weather, adding ‘that should be a worry for anyone who eats food’

While Norway is buying a tiny number of new hybrid cars, in the UK they make up about a quarter of the market

On the question of immigration, the UK’s ‘Overton Window’ of acceptable views has been shifting in an alarming direction

If Donald Trump can stop the carnage in Gaza, he would surely have a good chance of winning the Nobel Peace Prize that he covets

Gaza Youth Committee founder Rami Aman says many people in Gaza do not support Hamas, only want peace and mourn for the Israeli children who have been killed, as well as their own

In its stances on climate change, vaccines and immigration, Reform UK demonstrates it should be taken about as seriously as the modern-day druids chanting prayers of protection against Covid

On May 8, 1945, The Scotsman wrote that, while the Second World War had been ‘decisively won’, this did not necessarily mean that ‘an era of universal peace will automatically be ushered in’

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With Vladimir Putin’s lies about Ukraine being repeated by US President Donald Trump, the UK needs to stand up for the truth or risk becoming as morally compromised as the jocular Russian ambassador

Scottish perspective on news, sport, business, lifestyle, food and drink and more, from Scotland's national newspaper, The Scotsman.

From today, I will be imposing my own tariffs on everyone I trade with, just like my newfound hero Donald J Trump

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Donald Trump’s outrageous attack on Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky must be condemned by all UK politicians, especially those who have aligned themselves with the US President

Echoing Donald Trump may seem like a good idea now, but does anyone really think his presidency will end well?

Scotland’s plethora of quangos is expensive, at a time when public services need all the money they can get, and poses a threat to democracy

Liberals on the political right and left need to find a new way of doing politics to defeat populism

Donald Trump appears to believe bizarre conspiracy theorists rather than scientists about climate change and vaccines

As clubs and friends turn their back on Facebook, the appeal of ‘unplugging’ is clear

As former Conservative Cabinet minister Rory Stewart has rightly said, history shows that when politicians abandon liberalism, the collapse of democracy and wars are likely to follow

As Donald Trump rattles his sabre about trade, tariffs and territorial expansion, it’s clear the UK urgently needs to improve access to Europe’s single market

No 10 insists millions of people share Sir Keir's view of the Truss government's economic record.

While the UK has dramatically reduced the amount of carbon produced by electricity generation, we are still largely wedded to petrol-powered cars

Telling people to 'buck up' won't work, but neither will treating ourselves as delicate flowers. Sport holds the answer

Elon Musk has demonstrated the kind of pioneering spirit that has served humanity well, but his support for populists like Donald Trump and Reform UK is deeply concerning

Like many Western countries, Scotland’s falling birth rate is its most under-rated crisis

The positive attitudes of the Tartan Army have created the kind of genuine community spirit that would benefit society as a whole

All democratic citizens should be part of a global ‘nation’ committed to the defence of freedom against tyranny

Allowing Scotland to issue its own visas to live and work here, while the rest of the UK adopted a low or even ‘net-zero’ immigration policy would expose the empty agenda of hard-right populists

Humans have already shifted the Earth’s climate more than a quarter of the way towards the opposite of the Ice Age and, by the end of the century, we could be more than halfway towards the ‘Fire Age’

Countries must curb production now and tackle plastic’s full life cycle, says Norwegian minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim ahead of key UN talks this week

The Scotsman has joined forces with Cyrenians to raise money for people experiencing homelessness

Bumblebees may look like ungainly flyers but some are capable of an extraordinary aeronautical feat

Gannets are evolution’s finest work as a bird sublimely adapted to hunting fish in the most demanding of marine environments

As part of the Scotland’s Wonderful Wildlife series, Mary Colwell warns that curlews, a bird with a leading role in Scottish folk tales, are in serious trouble

In the second article in The Scotsman’s series, Scotland’s Wonderful Wildlife, Dr Helen Scales describes her attempts to see orcas and explains how she realised it’s alright to be both optimistic and ...

In the first article in a series called Scotland’s Wonderful Wildlife, Dr Sara Lodge recalls her first meeting with an otter and how the wonderful writing of ‘troubled romantic’ Gavin Maxwell helped s...

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