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Stripped for action

BRITISH workers are restless. Be it in education, police, NHS, local government, civil service or national companies et al, there is a howl for…

MANY of us remember the setting up of the Faslane Peace Camp in June 40 years ago. For more than 50 years, Britain has had a continuous nuclear…

I MUST congratulate Andrew Dunlop on his article on Queen Elizabeth II as it wins the 2021 prize for being the biggest pile of sycophantic drivel…

Snookered

THE news from the Night Time Industries Association that Scotland’s late-night economy is now close to total collapse, having been closed and effectively left to survive on its own since the start of the pandemic, surely means that our Government must replace vacuous soundbites with action. The night-time economy in Glasgow not only generates tens of millions of pounds – something that is replicated in all our cities – but it also underpins Scotland’s reputation as an attractive vis...

WHERE Scotland was once the fiefdom of the Labour Party and where it used to be said that if it put a donkey up as a candidate it would be elected overwhelmingly, now the party is clinging on by its fingertips in Holyrood, having slipped into third place behind the Tories. Its solitary Westminster MP makes it look like the Scottish representation in Westminster could soon be an extinct species and, without Scotland in its grasp, the party has little hope of regaining power in Westminster. ...