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What should a Scottish Bill of Rights look like?

We must be brave when it comes to creating a Scottish Bill of Rights

Latest oil prices show we must be cannier about move to net zero

COMMENT George Kerevan: Latest oil prices show we must be cannier about move to net zero

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Johanna Baxter is the head of local government for Unison Scotland

COMMENT It’s nonsense to suggest Unison strike is linked to party bias

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Grant Shapps tried to defend the PM's U-turn in a BBC interview on Sunday

COMMENT Kirsty Strickland: Sunak and Shapps give a taste of what's next for the Tories

Julian Assange is guilty only of exposing war crimes, writes Kenny MacAskill

COMMENT Kenny MacAskill: The UK Government dare not speak about Julian Assange

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Football is being transformed by the sums of money on display, writes Stuart Cosgrove

COMMENT Stuart Cosgrove: Scottish football’s fight for relevance in the era of big finance

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Keeping the cultural soul of Gaelic alive is about more than just teaching people the language, writes Rhoda Meek

COMMENT Rhoda Meek: Gaelic can be saved as a language but saving its soul will be harder

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A number of changes need to be made to let MPs focus on legislative and policy work

COMMENT Dr Elliot Bulmer: MPs need freed from burden of constituency workload

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Rupert Murdoch announced he will step down as chairman of News Corp and the Fox Corporation

COMMENT How the never-ending Murdoch empire polluted our discourse and our culture

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All Under One Banner (AUOB) march for independence in Stirling

COMMENT Ruth Wishart: Urgency is key as we move to convince swithering ‘soft’ Unionists

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A Ukrainian servicemen fires a machine gun towards Russian positions near Andriivka, Donetsk

WAR IN UKRAINE David Pratt: Ukraine's key battle lies in retaining support from allies

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Rishi Sunak faced criticism after U-turning on a number of climate policies this week

COMMENT Rishi Sunak will leave our kids with a stinking desert then call it a triumph

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Economics is one of the key issues of independence strategy

COMMENT Pat Kane: Let's talk about the economic case for indy

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If Tories in Westminster had their way, Scotland would indeed be treated just like any region of England, the Wee Ginger Dug writes

REAL SCOTTISH POLITICS Wee Ginger Dug: 'Scotland is a region of England' error was more like prophecy

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech on the plans for net-zero commitments in the briefing room at 10 Downing Street, London

LETTERS Rishi Sunak’s petty politics around climate change are an insult to us all

Rishi Sunak's climate climbdown will be felt for years to come, writes Mark Ruskell

COMMENT The Tories will unleash turmoil on our environment - just like the economy

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Anas Sarwar is thoroughly in the pocket of Keir Starmer, writes Richard Walker

COMMENT Richard Walker: No policies are too vile for Labour if it means undermining Holyrood

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We need more transparency in our justice system, writes Joanna Cherry

COMMENT Joanna Cherry: Our courts need some hard and fast rules on open justice

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Lindsay Hoyle is quite right to call out Rishi Sunak's lack of respect for parliamentary process, writes the Wee Ginger Dug

REAL SCOTTISH POLITICS Wee Ginger Dug: Rishi Sunak's contempt for the UK Parliament should concern us all

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Rishi Sunak announced U-turns on a raft of the UK's climate commitments

COMMENT Richard Murphy: What Rishi Sunak got wrong – and how Scotland can get it right

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Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross during First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament

FMQs Sketch FMQs: Douglas Ross once again does the bidding of a flagging Prime Minister

Optimism about the future of Scotland must be tempered by realism post-indy, writes Kelly Given

COMMENT Kelly Given: Honesty, solutions and realism can win us indyref2

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Demonstrators take part in a National Rejoin March in Parliament Square, London. The protest is in support of the UK rejoining the European Union. Picture date: Saturday October 22, 2022..

COMMENT Why Rejoin EU campaigners should support Scottish independence

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Will Humza Yousaf take the opportunity to fill the climate vacuum left by Rishi Sunak, asks Lesley Riddoch

COMMENT Lesley Riddoch: The UK's rollback on climate presents an opportunity for Humza Yousaf

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to wounded Ukrainian soldiers during a visit at Staten Island University Hospital, in New York, Monday, Sept. 18

COMMENT David Pratt: The West has to prioritise Ukraine in decisions about the war

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Rishi Sunak's desperation to remain as Prime Minister is plain to see, writes the Wee Ginger Dug

REAL SCOTTISH POLITICS Wee Ginger Dug: Rishi Sunak's climate rollback reveals the PM's desperation

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Kelly Given, Coll McCail and Iona Fyfe give their thoughts on the U-turn

COMMENT 'Mon the independence': Young Scots react to Rishi Sunak's net-zero betrayal

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It's worth considering what can be done to help communities deliver affordable homes, writes Kate Forbes

COMMENT Kate Forbes: Communities can deliver affordable homes - we must help them

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers her annual speech on the state of the European Union

COMMENT Alyn Smith: State of the Union address shows Europe is leaving the UK behind

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COMMENT Assa Samake-Roman: Reaction to Russell Brand has been infuriatingly expected

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The court battle over transgender rights in Scotland has wide-reaching political ramifications

REAL SCOTTISH POLITICS Wee Ginger Dug: Beware political ramifications of Section 35 court battle

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Trans rights activists take part in a demonstration outside Portobello Library, Edinburgh

COMMENT Court ruling on gender bill will tell us ALL about democracy in Scotland

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Staff from the EIS-FELA union and Unison across all of Scotland’s further education colleges are taking part in rolling strike action

COMMENT Ellie Gomersall: The Scottish Government must take responsibility over colleges

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Not everyone supports a visitor levy on the NC500, writes Martin Evan-Jones

EXCLUSIVE Should we be charging an NC500 visitor levy? Locals give their say

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Conflicting aims of site visitors pose a challenge, writes Shona Craven

COMMENT We must balance tourism and conservation at our cultural landmarks

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We have to challenge the prejudices which surround victims of sexual assault, writes Karen Adam MSP

COMMENT Karen Adam: We must end the culture of suspicion around sexual assault claims

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Liz Truss gives a speech on the economy at the Institute for Government in London

REAL SCOTTISH POLITICS Wee Ginger Dug: Liz Truss's lack of contrition exposes the fantasy of UK politics

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Liz Truss gives a speech on the economy at the Institute for Government in London

ANALYSIS 'She hates us': Economics experts respond to Liz Truss's latest speech

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In 2021, I renewed my enhanced disclosure certification. The application form did not ask about sex but gender

COMMENT Equality is about balancing and respecting the rights of all

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I never bought the line in 2014 that Scotland would somehow be better represented internationally as part of the UK

COMMENT Scotland needs to be able to speak for itself on international stage

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Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC congress at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Monday September 11, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story INDUSTRY TUC. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

COMMENT What unions must do to beat risk of being under-armed and outgunned

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The Dog Control Coalition say banning the breed will do little to prevent further attacks happening

COMMENT Kirsty Strickland: Simple ban is not enough to tackle dog attack risks

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COMMENT Ewing is in the dock because he called out a dangerous loss of focus

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Garry wasn’t concerned about the state of England’s schools; not the potential collapse of Britain’s education infrastructure

COMMENT Pandering to far-right on culture war issues has consequences

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To nobody’s surprise, not a single Scot that sits in the House of Lords supports independence

COMMENT Tommy Sheppard: The chamber where not one peer supports independence

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Leadburn Community Woodland

COMMENT Change may be in the air on government’s support for our rewilding

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Shy and elusive woodland hunters, Eurasian lynx may be the perfect fit for maintaining biodiversity and healthy living systems in Scotland’s forests

COMMENT Peter Cairns: The case for reintroducing lynx to Scotland’s forests

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It has been said that the most terrible poverty is loneliness

COMMENT Stuart Cosgrove: The mystery of loneliness and the song that speaks to it

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Rishi Sunak’s rhetoric exacerbates a form of racism also amplified by Labour politicians

COMMENT Ruth Wishart: Unionists fail to realise a key fact about immigration

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Nobody wants to admit it but the Supreme Court has destroyed this new Children’s Bill

COMMENT Andrew Tickell: We're not meant to say this out loud – but bill has been gutted

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Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer do not offer a route forward

COMMENT New poll went under radar but reveals a truth about Broken Britain

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Prof. Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute with Dolly the sheep as she takes her place as a permanent exhibit in the Royal Museum of Scotland

COMMENT Can we rely on our ‘moral force-field’ to stop cloning going too far?

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Trafalgar Square protest against the Islamic Republic in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini

COMMENT Scotland has the power to amplify the voices of Iran's women

Labour will be forced to U-turn on strategy after recent polling

REAL SCOTTISH POLITICS Labour will be forced to U-turn on strategy after downturn in new poll

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