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ON Tuesday we had Huw Edwards, of the BBC, hosting the show “State Opening of Parliament”. A one-hour-and-forty-five-minute spectacle of serious…

Last resident on Gildas Avenue says new cash offer for house is still not enough Carl Harris says he is now being offered £140,000 - but would need £200,000 to afford something suitable close by 14:01, 11 MAY 2021 Get all the latest politics news via email updates Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. T...

PERHAPS those of us of a unionist persuasion are too negative about the result of another referendum on independence. The much-vaunted SNP achieved 50 per cent of the Scottish vote in the General Election of 2015. Research on Google suggests that that was its zenith. In 2014, more than 55 per cent voted for the Union; in 2016, 47% voted for separatist parties; in 2017 37% of Scots voted for the SNP, and in the 2019 General Election, 54% of Scottish votes were for Unionist parties. Nicol...

CONSIDERING that it is the foundation document of the United Kingdom, there is a vast amount of ignorance about Scotland’s Act of Union which brought about the Union on May 1, 1707. I seriously doubt if any more than, say, 2% of the Scottish population have read all of the Act of Union as passed by the Scottish Parliament on January 16, 1707, by 110 votes to 67. So today and next week I am devoting this column to that Scottish Act of treachery and self-interest. I am not writing about...

Robert Azzi: A free press is there to shine a light Published: 12/29/2020 9:28:53 AM ‘Remember,” I was recently cautioned, “it’s a holiday season – write less about darkness, more about light.” I’ll write about light. I’ll write that if it’s true that “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” as Justice Brandeis wrote, then we must be vigilant in assuring that our Public Square remain free of corruption and autocracy though the constant application of Brandeis’...