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Antony Blinken said Washington's ties with Beijing is America's 'most complex relationship'

David Pratt: China-US relations soured by balloon incident

IN the words of US secretary of state Antony Blinken, Washington’s ties with Beijing is America’s “most consequential and complex relationship”.

Nicola Sturgeon 'got in a fankle' in an interview last week, writes Ruth Wishart

Ruth Wishart: Government has allowed independence to slip down list of priorities

SHALL we take our text from Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland: “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less”?

Shell announced record breaking profits this week

Obscene profits and dodging windfal taxes – you can be sure of Shell

YOU’LL have heard the news. Shell has just announced record-breaking annual profits of more

Three years after Brexit, only Government ministers and British columnists are still rooting for it

Britannia waives the rules – in a land shorn of Hope and Glory

A NEW poll has found that voters believe the Tory Party is “institutionally corrupt”. And now even Tory voters are turning away from Brexit.

This week's edition of Question Time took place in Glasgow

Kevin McKenna: Glasgow lives up to its billing as comedian’s graveyard

IN the world of entertainment, Glasgow audiences are known for their knack of sensing fakery. This stems from the days of the old Glasgow Empire when visiting English acts knew that an ordeal awaited them if they weren’t on their game.

There seems to be no proof good enough for the UK Government on indyref

AS each day goes by, support for Scottish independence continues to grow. This week alone, your benefits of being part of the Union include interest rates reaching a 15-year high, record profits for Shell while the Tories charge on with raising the energy bill price cap in April – and, to top it off, the UK is tipped to be the only major economy expected to shrink in 2023.

Basement of a bank full of banknotes, at the time of the Mark devaluation, during the economic crisis, Weimar Republic (Germany), 1923.

UK inflation pales before history's worst – but it’s still bad for the economy

WHEN I am driving on my own, I often turn to the BBC World Service for company.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arriving at a Q&A session at Teesside University in Darlington

Truth is the only way to tackle the corruption that poisons UK society

THERE has always been, and will always be, corruption in public life.

Activists from Greenpeace set up a mock-petrol station price board displaying the Shell's net profit for 2022

Breathtaking profits of oil giants should spur us to action on sustainable energy

IT draws the breath from your lungs. A few days ago, what was in effect a general strike took to the streets, demanding public sector pay rises to cope with the cost of living crisis. In the same news window, Shell announced the biggest yearly profit in its history for 2022, £32.2 billion. In the last quarter of that year, they made nearly a thousand pounds a second.

What is the source of rumours suggesting Nicola Sturgeon is set to resign ahead of the next General Election?

Where did the rumour that Nicola Sturgeon is stepping down come from?

DISINFORMATION doesn’t always stem from carefully calculated and purposeful dishonesty.