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IT is said that history is written by those who are victorious in controlling the narrative and to a large degree in this era of multimedia outlets that is still true. Yesterday the electorate of Scotland went to the polls in what is arguably the most important, most crucial and without doubt most life-changing election to be held for our parliament. We know now what is at stake, we know now that if we fail to return an independence-supporting government then the powers of Holyrood will be torn from our grasp by an unfettered, unchecked and brutally uncaring Conservative and Unionist ma...

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack is backing the UK Government’s challenge to two Holyrood bills which incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Charter of Local Self-Government in Scottish Law. PETER A Russell's letter (May 4) is more telling for what he doesn’t say than what he does. His criticism of Alan Morris amounts to pointing out that after 2014 we got the Smith Commission and the 2016 Scotland Act. It would be easy to point out that in that same year we also got Brexit, and as Sir Tom Devine says: “I cannot recall any issue of such ...

ELECTION week is a dismal time to try to persuade politicians to be rational, but once more unto the breach I go. In two days, Scotland goes to the polls in what few dispute is the most important election of the devolved era. The election is about one thing: independence, and specifically whether or not there should be another referendum on the matter. The two main parties, in a strategy which one of them will likely live to regret, have made it the central, effectively single, issue at stake. That strategy makes it ever more difficult to dispute the legitimacy of the result.

Scotland's EU exit in January was lamented by many. Would independence turn out to be a more painful blow? Picture: Colin Mearns THE SNP cites Brexit and its negative impact on international trade between Scotland and the EU as its justification for another referendum on Scottish independence. Our company is a Scottish-based manufacturing business in the plastics sector that exports the majority of its products, much of them to the EU. We have now had four months’ experience of Brexit. In many respects, the SNP is absolutely right. Brexit has caused delays, administrative headaches and ...