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WOMEN left out of pocket by surprise pension changes were let down by the Department for Work and Pensions, an ombudsman has found.

WOMEN left out of pocket by surprise pension changes were let down by the Department for Work and Pensions, an ombudsman has found.

MY post-lockdown delight has been boosted by a message from an old friend and colleague, Neal Ascherson, the renowned radical journalist I o...

THE first person to be jailed for his part in the insurrection riot at the Capitol in Washington on January 6 is starting an eight-month sen...

IT was September 19, 2018, when I visited Jordi Cuixart, Jordi Sanchez and Raul Romeva in their cells in Lledoners prison.

NEW data from the House of Commons Library reveals how small European nations are out-performing the UK on aid spending.

IN this week’s article we will continue with the focus on the potential for local government pension scheme (LGPS) funds to provide “product...

I GET my lockdown hairdo and the hairdresser explains to me she’s going to Thailand for her holidays. Phuket? Pun intended.

THE introduction of a universal basic income (UBI) and freeing Scotland from a “crazy” system of welfare which generates poverty is one of t...

AT least 110 people have died in devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium, officials said, as rescue operations and th...

RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin plotted to put Donald Trump in the White House, leaked documents suggest.

YOUR report on the SNP’s new council of economic advisers (July 10) was depressingly one-sided. You gave ample coverage to responses from Jo...

SCOTLAND'S unemployment rate dropped slightly in the last quarter, according to latest figures.

UK inflation, and so Scottish inflation, was suggested this week to have reached 2.5 per cent per annum during June this year. If some econo...

AS the campaigning wing of the Scottish Independence Convention, Voices for Scotland has tackled the problem of how to keep the Yes movement...

"ONLY the hated Tories, with their hearts of stone, could pledge to the fishing communities of Scotland a bonanza, and then just shrug as it...

SCOTTISH fintech firm Zumo was founded in 2018 by entrepreneurs Nick Jones and Paul Roach. It aims to bring the benefits of cryptocurrencies...

A BARCELONA woman has sounded an SOS to help save almost 40 former Catalan government officials who are facing financial ruin – fines totall...

IN recent articles we have suggested that the 11 local authority pension funds (LGPS) have the capacity to invest in the Scottish economy to...

DEEP beneath the waters to the west of Shetland lies a question about Scotland’s future: do we allow the UK to continue implicating our coun...

THERE are arguments for and against the appointment of Lord Macpherson of Earl’s Court, the former permanent head of the UK Treasury, as a k...

SCOTLAND’S social security minister has called Boris Johnson’s decision to stop a £20-per week uplift to Universal Credit “indefensible” and...

DISCUSSIONS are taking place on how Scotland will test the model of a four-day working week, the Sunday National can reveal.

THE New Caledonia government elected the first pro-independence figure as president of the South Pacific archipelago, a French territory tha...

THE UK Government is being urged to set out exactly how much cash Scotland will receive from a scheme designed to replace European funding f...