Earlier this month, in his first major speech as the UK’s new Chancellor, John Healey stood in Coventry and reiterated his commitment to “fiscal discipline”. It is not hard to understand why: the UK f...

This ten minute crossing is famous around the world - and is believed to be the last turntable style ferry anywhere. It's an iconic part of Skye's history, but the ferry's operator says its future may...

On Monday there was a historic meeting in Cardiff, the first time ever that pro-independence First Ministers from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland met and agreed a common framework for the pur…

The monumental backlash against the leaders of the Celtic Nations gathering in Cardiff to sign a Memorandum of Understanding which asserted the right to self-determination continues to gather pace.

The prime minister has the chance to end the power of the super-rich in British politics – he’s not taking it

La Gestapo de Trump and the USS Abraham Lincoln, America's descent is accelerating.

UK inflation is rising again. Admittedly, the increase was small, up 0.3 to 2.9 last month. But the key point is that economists were expecting it…

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QUESTIONS about the service its Scottish audience receives from the BBC are continuing to mount. If I were working at the corporation, I’d be…

Crypto tycoons have pumped millions into Reform. Nine out of ten voters want a cap on donations. Why is the government refusing to act?

Exclusive: A discreet lobbying campaign by lawyers who have acted for oligarchs and the super-rich told government that reforming England's libel laws was too difficult.

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The debate around nationalisation vs. privatisation is missing the point: it’s about governing in the public interest

Two leading Scottish founders have been slammed after calling for Scotland to be made a "tax haven" to secure support from businesses

‘I THINK they liked goading us,” says Siobhan Tolland. “I think they enjoyed the process. And this is where the misogyny comes in. This was…

The survey was carried out by the Diffley Partnership and is the fifth to be undertaken by the polling firm for CIOT since 20181.

There’s less than three weeks to go until the Holyrood election and the wheels have well and truly come off the Labour campaign. With the headlines being dominated by the Mandelson story &#82…

But our political journalists covered it up for factional reasons

Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS” reveals.

AS introduced, Liam McArthur’s Assisted Dying Bill included a conscience clause. It said that an individual is under no duty “to participate in…

A CABINET office minister who was involved in falsely accusing journalists of having links to pro-Russian propaganda, when he was boss of a Labour…

Our analysis in this paper shows that immigrants generated a fiscal surplus of about $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023, that the average immigrant is much less costly than the average US-born American,...

‘THIS is your friendly neighbourhood reminder that the case is now active and the Contempt of Court Act 1981 applies.”

Scotland is all over Instagram and TikTok as the first country in the world to really sock it to billionaires. Who knew?

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Much debate has raged about Anas Sarwar’s tactic of demanding the resignation of his colleague and leader, Keir Starmer, a week ago.

...it needs surgical removal.

Cabinet Office minister hired a PR firm to investigate journalists. His explanation is bewildering - and begs one big question. How can Starmer keep him on?

The think tank that propelled Starmer to power hired private investigators to shut down scrutiny of its dark money - I speak to one of its targets, journalist Paul Holden

Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

TO borrow Lord Peter Benjamin Mandelson’s views about people getting “filthy rich”, I am “intensely relaxed” about his latest trampolining…

As the world system ruptures, and as the brutality of the system becomes an undeniable fact, the stories we have told ourselves about our society…

IT is clear that the issue of Scotland’s moratorium on new nuclear power will be a key battle line in May’s Scottish Parliament election.

Many economists, even within the mainstream, are questioning the role of neoclassical/neoliberal economics in today’s many crises

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Today Malcolm Offord stated that the private sector is the most productive sector of the economy. But is this so, and what actually constitutes 'productive’? Wealthy business people may need a carer...

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