SOME MEMBERS of the House of Lords have written a letter to the Times complaining the retained EU regulations will be removed by ministers without
MSP and ex-First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was at Holyrood last week, where she bumped into the media and gave an impromptu little speech in the
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WHO HASN’T been spell-bound by the drama unfolding in Scottish politics since Nicola Sturgeon’s shock resignation? When she resigned, I wrote about tectonic plates shifting,
THE Black Maternal Health report, published this month, looked at ‘Disparities in outcomes for ethnic mothers’. Any study that looks for ways to improve health
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THIS WEEK the ONS published its monthly employment data to a fanfare of approval. Unemployment is close to a 50-year low – employment participation rates
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IF GOD MADE Scotland man, then he’d come up with Nicola Sturgeon. He’d mix together a Scottish terrier, a no-nonsense school mistress, a Braveheart script,
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SNP OFFICIALS hid both the fact the party’s auditors resigned and why they resigned from many of its most senior politicians – for six months.
IN JANUARY I mentioned that the Scottish Government’s minimum unit pricing (MUP) has a sunset clause and the SNP was running out of time in its search