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It is over till the next time. Of course, this iteration of the cycle was different in terms of the widespread Israeli Arab resistance and the intensity of the rocketing from Gaza. Plus, the politically embattled prime minister Netanyahu was only too willing to over-do the bombing of the Gaza ghetto in a vain bid to divert attention from his own career troubles. But the ceasefire changes nothing. We are back where we started till the next round of oppression, resistance and repression beg...

Long-serving SNP minister and Highland MSP Fergus Ewing was a permanent presence in government since Alex Salmond took the party to power 14 years ago - but he starts the new Holyrood session on the back benches after a reshuffle by Nicola Sturgeon.

It was Good Friday, April 5, 1985, and veteran lawyer Willie McRae was heading to his Highland holiday cottage in the Ross-Shire village of Dornie near Skye. He had left his flat in Queens Park on Glasgows South Side around 6:30pm and expected to complete the 175 mile car journey in around four hours. As McRae neared the weekend retreat later that Friday he would almost certainly have been looking forward to sitting in front of a peat fire and enjoying a glass of his favourite malt whisky...

WE asked you how the campaigns are going in your area. Here’s what you told us ... I AM in Kate Forbes’s constituency, or at least in the Drumnadrochit part of this huge area, but I also travel to Moidart to visit my shellfish farm. My impression is that that the Unionist parties don’t seem to be bothering to campaign as far as posters on lampposts are concerned. It is only the SNP that seem to be doing that. The Tories, of course, have the money to give us voluminous mail shots, whic...

COMMENT The European Question has moved a lot of people from No to Yes as the years go on SCOTLAND’S independence is, for me, innately linked to Scotland in the world – the whole point to independence is being a normal nation at home making our own decisions, and speaking with our own voice in the world, forming common cause with like-minded partners and friends. All the issues facing humanity as a species are bigger than any one state, however big or small. Be it climate change, the fi...

* The introduction of a development land value tax to disincentivise the hoarding of land resources. * A proposal for a written Constitution for an independent Scotland. * Free school breakfasts and lunches for nursery, primary and secondary pupils using high quality Scottish produce centrally purchased with menus devised by leading Scottish chefs and nutritionists - every week of the year. * A proposal for Scotland to join the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and through EFTA adm...

Everything you need to know about the Scottish National Party ahead of their election manifesto launch.

  Mark Smith: What an icon of Scottish nationalism told me about the election. But can he be right? PREMIUM A Union flag, a Saltire flag and an European Union flag fly outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh I WAS talking the other day to Ian Hamilton, the Scottish nationalist who helped take the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey in the 1950s and someone who I think you could fairly call an icon, a high-celebrity of nationalism, so, naturally, I took the opportunity to ask him how...

Result in 2016: SNP 7 seats (6 constituency, 1 list), Conservatives 3 seats (0 constituency, 3 list), LibDems 2 seats (2 constituency, 0 list), Labour 2 seats (0 constituency, 2 list), Greens 1 seat (0 constituency, 1 list) IT’S easily forgotten that the eight electoral regions in which the Scottish Parliament’s list MSPs are chosen were originally based on the old Scottish constituencies for first-past-the-post elections to the European Parliament – although ironically those had become...

I WAS intrigued to read comments in the Sunday National of February 7 from Dr Peter Lynch of Stirling University – my youngest son (The week that shook the SNP). He was speculating on what the late Gordon Wilson would say about the current furore around Joanna Cherry MP. To put the matter into context, Labour had a referendum on Scottish independence in 1979. The Yes side had a majority, but a clause had been inserted by George Cunningham, a Scot but representing Islington, that there had...