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So, that was 2016 - a year that many of us won't be too upset to see the back of. For the last few years I've generally made predictions on New Year's Eve for the coming year - some serious and some not quite so serious. However, I decided to sit it...

Scotland the Bold: Making the Case for a Radical Scotland Gerry Hassan Sunday Herald, November 6th 2016 This weekend I attended a Donald Trump campaign rally in New Hampshire. It was a surreal experience – of a Presidential candidate who isn’t a professional...

KARL RITTER AP MOTHERWELL, Scotland — Cooling towers, blast furnaces and coking coal. The grit and humor of steelworkers heading to early-morning shifts. That was Motherwell before the steelworks closed and the “Steelopolis” of Scotland became another...

Rob Lyons writes: Beautiful country, Scotland. Loads of wide open spaces, thanks to having just one-sixth as many people per square mile as England. Loads of mountains, islands and greenery. The cities aren’t bad, either. The capital, Edinburgh, has...

The Scottish government published a draft bill Thursday to pave the way for a second independence referendum to potentially cut formal ties with Britain. It follows an announcement by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last weekend at the Scottish National...