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That’s Entertainment: John Swinney on-song at SNP conference
Scottish Independence

That’s Entertainment: John Swinney on-song at SNP conference

In Aberdeen, Swinney’s SNP certainly seemed to look like its leader – a party less colourful than in past incarnations, and more focused
by Kirsteen Paterson
Tickets, please: ScotRail's not the Orient Express, but it's chuffing decent

Tickets, please: ScotRail's not the Orient Express, but it's chuffing decent

Sketch: MSPs have squawkward conversations

Sketch: MSPs have squawkward conversations

After years of false promises, the SNP still has no route to a referendum
Scottish Independence

After years of false promises, the SNP still has no route to a referendum

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Nicola Sturgeon has broken her promise to Scotland’s young people
Chris Marshall
by Chris Marshall

Nicola Sturgeon has broken her promise to Scotland’s young people

Sturgeon and the SNP’s soaring rhetoric has not been met with the same action on the ground
Until this country faces down the far-right, I won’t take any pride in our flags
Louise Wilson
by Louise Wilson

Until this country faces down the far-right, I won’t take any pride in our flags

Flags have long been co-opted by the far-right – the prime minister has finally recognised that

Mountain climbing and campaign litter

Ukip and the referendum

Asking a defining question

Switching off: Darling won the TV debate but Salmond was not the biggest loser

The sound of silence

May you live in interesting times

Secret agreements to rule the waves

The Neverendum – the constitutional nightmare that never goes away

The civil servant's puzzle

Ground control to Major Willie

Eurovision spin contest

Small world

Oil and trouble

Are the SNP holding back Scottish independence?

Imperial America’s decline

Tories score own goal

Europe matters, so does Scotland

Shaken, not stirred

Is it time to break up with the independence divorce analogy?

15 minutes of maybe
Society & Welfare

Choosing poverty

Yes, no, maybe

The F-word

Cards on the table
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