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ON the eve of the Second World War a Labour MP, Arthur Greenwood, stepped up to the despatch box in the House of Commons. He appeared unnerved by a shout of encouragement from the Conservative side of the House. The Tory backbencher Leo Amery was sickened by the appeasement policy pursued by his own prime minister Neville Chamberlain. Amery yelled out: “Speak for England, Arthur!” and Arthur did. He argued for the necessity of war with Hitler, helping pull the country together. But when Arthur spoke for England, he also spoke for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irelan...

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

BORIS Johnson came to Scotland last week: much trailed and talked about but certain to have no lasting effect. This was the week where a once-revered Scottish institution announced it had fallen on hard times. Once popular with Edinburgh ladies of a certain age and the middle-classes who believed that they had a refined taste and lifestyle; the similarities between Jenners department store on Princes Street, Edinburgh and the Scottish Tories, are many. This illustrates the long-term ­collapse of the institutions of Tory Unionism which once underpinned its appeal; given sustenance by chur...

  Ron McKay's Diary: So how much is it finally going to cost you and me to settle malicious prosecutions of Rangers administrators? PREMIUM GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 02: Former Rangers chief executive Charles Green leaves court surrounded by police on September 2, 2015 in Glasgow, Scotland. Green was the chairman of Scottish football club Rangers from 2012 to 2013 and was arrested along HOW much is it finally going to cost you and me to settle the malicious prosecutions of the Rangers administrators from 2012 and four others with cases still outstanding? I did ask the Scottish Govern...

Sir Tom Devine (left) accused Louis de Bernieres of displaying a 'sinister and dangerous' side to nationalism EMINENT historian Professor Sir Tom Devine has hit back at Louis de Bernieres after he claimed that “the constant complaining and smug grandstanding” from those in favour of Scottish independence had alienated many English people. De Bernieres, who won widespread recognition for his 1994 work Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, claimed that “the barely concealed Anglophobia of too many Scots” meant that England would be "glad to see the back of Scotland”. In a letter p...