ACCORDING to Neil Oliver, the referendum will be the biggest decision in 300 years. I wonder. In 1707-15, as far as the mass of Scots were concerned, there was no decision.
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ACCORDING to Neil Oliver, the referendum will be the biggest decision in 300 years. I wonder. In 1707-15, as far as the mass of Scots were concerned, there was no decision.
Both sides of the referendum debate would do well to heed the good doctor’s famous warning, writes Allan Massie
Britain could struggle to mount another military operation on the scale of the intervention in Libya, MPs warned yesterday.
The corporation’s decision to kick Alex Salmond into touch raises questions about its ability to cover Scottish affairs properly
IT SEEMS odd that David Miliband should choose this time to re-emerge from the shadows where he went to hide after narrowly losing to his brother Ed in the Labour leadership contest.
The corporation has the technology, but not the will, writes the editor of The Scotsman
JOHN Swinney has defended plans to give up to 60,000 EU nationals living in Scotland a vote in the independence referendum.
FIRST Minister Alex Salmond has accused the BBC of acting like a “tin-pot dictatorship” and questioned its impartiality after being dropped from a BBC Six Nations panel at Murrayfield.
THE Church of England has more than doubled the amount of cash its multi-billion pound endowment has invested in hedge funds, it emerged yesterday.
NEW Energy Secretary Ed Davey is being urged to back Edinburgh’s case to host the new UK Green Investment Bank.