With the Scottish Parliament turning 25 now seems to be a good time to ask whether it could be doing better. There is, it seems, some consensus that it could. Over the weekend, the veteran Tory MSP ...

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The Scottish parliament is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The inaugural meeting took place on 12 May 1999, less than a week after Scots went to the polls to vote in the first Holyrood election.

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LONDON — The Scottish Parliament suspended a vote on whether to hold a second referendum on independence from the United Kingdom, following the terror attack in ...

Novelist Allan Massie ponders how the birthplace of Adam Smith and Walter Scott declined into a depressing culture of ...

Falkland Islands London Office representative, Richard Hyslop has been in Scotland to congratulate Holyrood, the Scottish parliament on its 25ty anniversary. Links between the Falkland Islands and ...

The Scottish Parliament could make a national apology for slavery, according to the Scottish National Party's (SNP) proposals. A resolution included in the party's provisional conference agenda ...

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The future of nuclear power in Scotland is shaping up to be a battleground at next year's Holyrood election – and Torness, on ...

Scotland plans to throw its weight behind a legal battle against the British government to stop it from kicking off “Brexit,” First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s office said Tuesday. Last week, the High ...

Professor Heald raises the issue of austerity, saying in terms of public spending cuts more than half are still to come. He says the downward pressures on spending in the next five years are going to ...