1+ hour, 13+ min ago  (1181+ words) Anyone who lives in Scotland and is registered to vote can vote, but they must be 16 years of age or over on polling day and have not been legally excluded from voting (for example, because they are serving a prison…...

13+ hour, 9+ min ago  (350+ words) To say someone has lost his mind can carry a range of meanings. Accusations of mental instability may be merely a kind of insult, bandied around cheaply in politics, and not a serious diagnosis. Imagine he worked in a bank....

16+ hour, 9+ min ago  (354+ words) Nigel Farage has pledged to deport hundreds of thousands of people who have successfully claimed asylum after coming to the UK on small boats if he wins the next election. Reform UK said it would review all successful asylum claims…...

13+ hour, 9+ min ago  (211+ words) The government wants an extra 1. 5 million homes. Yet the companies meant to build them are pulling back. Berkeley Group is reducing land-buying and Barratt Redrow, the UK's largest housebuilder, has signalled the same. Housing starts have fallen for several years....

11+ hour, 24+ min ago  (823+ words) The Chinese company that spent millions of pounds with Lord Mandelson's lobbying firm Global Counsel has been accused of taking intellectual property from a United States biotechnology company. Wu Xi App Tec, a Chinese medical technology company, was reported to…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (748+ words) Scotland's prison service is refusing to quit a controversial scheme run by Stonewall, despite an exodus by other public bodies and a legal challenge over placing male prisoners in female jails. The Diversity Champions scheme, which has been abandoned by…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (672+ words) The SNP has "squandered" more than "1 million in taxpayers" money fighting'in court for gender self-ID policies that "threaten women"s rights". The Scottish government paid out nearly "400, 000 in legal expenses to the campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) on Friday,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (847+ words) Nicola Sturgeon has claimed there "was nothing I could have done" to have improved the tone of the debate on trans rights, in a reversal of her previous position. In her memoir published last year, the former first minister admitted…...

19+ hour, 57+ min ago  (594+ words) Kezia Dugdale "still believes" in gender self-ID despite the Supreme Court ruling that a person's sex is defined as biological. The former Scottish Labour leader has been named as the chairwoman of the controversial LGBT charity, Stonewall. Dugdale supported the…...

11+ hour, 44+ min ago  (767+ words) The departing head of the Foreign Office is consulting lawyers and will fight to "clear his name" after being sacked by the prime minister over the Lord Mandelson vetting scandal. Sir Olly Robbins was told that Sir Keir Starmer has…...