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— As the Scottish Government moves to toughen existing legislation, and the Church renews calls for a focus on anti-Catholic bigotry MICHAEL BRADY points out the need for enforcement by the police

A LEADING historian has said his predictions the chances of Scottish independence were “virtually dead for at least a generation” could be…

When the late Queen Elizabeth was crowned in 1953 thousands of street parties and community events were held the length and breadth of the UK.

CAN I contribute to this trip down memory lane about how Scotland was robbed of its oil bonanza (and is currently being robbed of its renewables…

THE first thing you ought to know about Scotland’s oil money is that it was never officially recognised as such when it was swallowed up by…

WHY does the Mannie’s statue still matter?

YOU know they’re really rattled when they start messing around with teachers, curricula and reading lists.

BBC News By John Murphy image captionLondons Spitalfields, where Irish labourers were accused of under-cutting English men Ever since the word Brexit was first coined in 2012, issues of migration, integration and independence have dominated public debate across the UK and Ireland. Now we have reached the centenary year of the partition of Ireland, BBC journalist Fergal Keane has looked back at the profound influence, over many centuries, of the Irish in Britain in a new BBC Radio 4 podcast. Ho...