In a paper to be published next year, Dr Siobhan Talbott argues the Franco-Scottish Auld Alliance of 1295 survived centuries of enmity and war between Britain and France – even after the Act of Union ...

Edinburgh today is home to the nation’s devolved parliament, established in 1999. The flamboyant building, symbolic of a new phase in Scottish nationalism (but designed by a Spanish architect), stands ...

The pro-independence Scottish National Party leader said she anticipates that a vote will take place “in the earlier part” of the next Scottish parliament, which begins next year.

Fiona Hyslop, Shona Robison, Christine Grahame and Richard Lochhead, who have all been in the Scottish Parliament since its inception in 1999, have done their time. Others have seen personal ...

The Scottish Parliament does not have a second chamber like the House of Lords. Instead, it has a powerful committee system which can propose as well as scrutinise bills. Committees are made up of ...

And in 1707, the Act of Union came into force, doing away with the Scottish Parliament for the next nearly three hundred years. Burns deplored what he saw as an unpopular constitutional merger ...

Scottish Labour has slipped back down to where it was in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, mainly due to unpopular policy decisions made in Westminster. Reform UK is predicted to win up to 15 ...