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IS the Lord Advocate’s journey to the Supreme Court a fool’s errand? If the non-consequential referendum she is arguing for occurs, it will be…

VLADIMIR Putin has organised the Russian economy as such that financial sanctions won’t hurt it.

SCIENTISTS in Scotland are warning that the Omicron virus could spread dangerously and that, therefore, restrictions on social life and interaction…

SOME of us remember how former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher favoured the easy ride she got from sympathetic interviewers such as DJs Terry Wogan and Jimmy Young. She would avoid the likes of David Dimbleby, Alastair Burnet, Robin Day and Robert Kee like the plague. I was reminded of that watching Oprah Winfrey interviewing Mr and Mrs Harry Windsor, with the latter's actress skills in full display – the exaggerated looks of shock and stage-managed gasps of indignation and the repetition of key sentences for full effect. One craved seeing them interviewed by a grand inquisitor like ...

NICOLA Sturgeon might be congratulating herself on managing to wriggle out of answering the tough questions at the Holyrood inquiry, but has she done herself any lasting favours? Ms Sturgeon is no ordinary politician, her aim is not just to win elections, it is to completely change the history of Scotland by destroying a long-standing Union in favour of basically an unknown future. To do this she and her party must demonstrate much higher standards than others to show that the SNP is beyond reproach. The party and its leadership must be seen to be very effective in dealing with not only t...