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I NOTE a breath of fresh air from Jim Sillars (Letters, January 17), whose own priorities do not include the currently-debased political footballs…

A leading Scots historian has accused culture leaders of being "historically illiterate" amid plans to mark Robert Burns link to the…

WINSTON Churchill’s primary aim during the Second World War was not to liberate Europe from fascism but to protect the long-term interests of the…

IT is a truth universally acknowledged that we generally get what we pay for. That we are in the midst of a conflict between public sector workers…

Presenter Seán Brosnahan said it focuses on the formation of the Otago settlement scheme from its genesis in Scotland through to how it played out on the ground.

It was once the largest settlement north of Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands until fate dealt the community a bad hand.

“'The funding for drug enforcement was basically a slush fund for corruption in the DEA,” said Tom Devine, McNichols’ attorney. “When a whistleblower threatens the organization, it leads to pretty almost standardized tactics of retaliation.'"

More than 30 years ago the outgoing leader of the SNP declared Scotland to be “England’s last colony”.

FORMER Scottish Secretary David Mundell has revealed he is to stand again at the next General Election.

SIR Geoff Palmer, the chancellor of Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University, has had a remarkable life. Born in Jamaica, he came to the UK in the…