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International Civil Society Letter to President Zelensky re. Draft Law #3450 OPEN LETTER SENT BY EMAIL AND POST TO: Mr. Zelensky, President of Ukraine 16th February 2021 Dear President Zelensky, We, the undersigned organisations join our voices to this letter from the Board of Trustees of the Whistleblowing International Network (WIN) to urge your leadership to defend the integrity of the law that protects those who risk their careers to fight corruption and block proposed draft Bill which unde...

Nation of Change: Democratic legislators introduce COVID Whistleblower Protection Act Democratic legislators introduce COVID Whistleblower Protection Act This article features our Legal Director Tom Devine and was originally published here. To guard against waste, fraud, and abuse, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Representatives Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), recently introduced the COVID-19 Whistleblower Protection Act to establish strong whistleblower protectio...

BREXIT has triggered a rise in anti-Scottish sentiment in England, according to academics who have uncovered a “surprising” number of…

LABOUR needs to be a patriotic party and be proud of the Union flag, Ed Miliband has insisted, as he dismissed claims something had gone wrong with…

By Murray Stewart Leith and Duncan Sim anti-scottish Sign marking the border between England and Scotland on the East Coast Main Line, circa 1993, United Kingdom. (Photo by Rail Photo/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images). ‘Why don’t you go back home?” said the woman to John (not his real name) when she heard his Scottish accent. As he later told us, it felt somewhat ironic as he was at Liverpool Pier Head for the Cunard bi...

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps claimed the removal of the EU flag from licences and plates was a historic moment BORIS Johnson’s Tory Government has been warned that plans to put the Union flag on all new car number plates in the UK will undermine plans to hold the home nations together. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps claimed that putting the Union flag on cars’ plates was a “historic moment for British motorists and a reassertion of our independence from the EU”. However the ...

A FURIOUS row has erupted after the SNP slated UK Government plans to put the Union flag on British driving licences.

One of the most influential newspapers in America has told its readership about soaring support for Scottish independence ONE of the USA’s biggest and most respected newspapers has told its readership of the possibility of Brexit leading to Scottish independence. The Los Angeles Times is one of the most influential newspapers in America, with the fifth-largest circulation of any American paper and a huge following online. It is the only major newspaper with its headquarters on America’s...

Submitting... The 25th Earl of Sutherland prompted the auction after inheriting Dunrobin following the death of his mother, Elizabeth, in 2019. From kitchen and domestic items - such as porcelain footbaths and chamber pots – to marble busts, weaponry and a collection of portraiture, the finds reflect the ‘upstairs, downstairs’ way of life at the imposing castle which overlooks the Dornoch Firth. Charlie Thomas, Director of House Sales, Private & Iconic Collections at Bonhams, said: “The...

IT’S almost getting to the point where the editor of The National could appoint a Statues Correspondent to cover all the stories that arise from the Scottish habit of generating genius, whether in science or philosophy, and then trying to make the fame eternal. It’s something of a contradiction in terms. If a man was that much of a genius, then he doesn’t really need a commemorative image of himself, does he? After all, there was, till 2008, not a single statue of Adam Smith in the la...