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Key lawmakers are pushing to strip a much criticized whistleblower office of its primary powers just a few years after it was heralded as a transformational reform in enforcing civil service laws.

FEW of the 3.6 million people who cast their votes on that emotionally charged day for Scotland – September 18, 2014 –would have dreamt that it…

Leaders insist the office is turning a corner, but lawmakers and advocates say its structure is fundamentally flawed and in need of reform.

The House Committee on Veterans Affairs

IT was with more than a little hilarity that I read todays article about our poor teachers desire for a four-day week ("Glasgow teachers…

WHY does the Mannie’s statue still matter?

“For over 1000 years Britain has had a royal family,” Sky News presenter Rhiannon Mills confidently told viewers as she prepared to explain the…

Summer 1953. A boy called Tom has just moved with his family to a brand new council house in Motherwell. Tom is seven years old. The house is…

The BBC's Scotland editor James Cook examines how the country's view of the monarchy has evolved.

I remember once speaking to a nice old guy who worked on the royal yacht Britannia from the day of its launch in Clydebank in 1953 to the day he…