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THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT is a reputationally challenged disaster-zone, struggling beneath myriad policy-outcome failures. There is a good reason John Swinney has emerged as SNP leader
THE UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has made a bit of a fanfare over Britain’s new main battle tank (MBT), the Challenger 3, and its
FOR THOSE who don’t know her, Liz Webster is a keyboard warrior on behalf of the unofficial rejoin movement. She is, if anything prolific, but
A NEW VERSION of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ has been remade for a new audience. It’s been 25 years since Anthony
RECENTLY, there was an event in Dundee organised by a group called ‘Scotonomics’, whose self-proclaimed task is ‘Demystifying our economy’. To this end they enlisted
Hamish Gobson’s diary: the view from across the Uisge Monday 1st April 2024 GIVEN THAT Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act
SO, ‘it’s 1-0 to the Brazil’. England beaten by a boy. Cue bedlam. Cue pandemonium. Cue clamour for his head. But this handwringing, this haranguing
SHE MAY BE BETTER KNOWN for her kitten heels and her promise of a “strong and stable” government, or perhaps for her coughing fit at
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THE SNP/GREEN Scottish Government’s paper “An independent Scotland’s place in the world”, was published on 4 March 24, the eleventh in a series of papers
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