THE UNION between Scotland and England in 1707 created the United Kingdom. Since then Scotland has provided prime ministers, such as Gordon Brown, intellectual luminaries like Adam Smith and David ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon said in an interview Tuesday that Europe's crisis over Russia's war in Ukraine only makes Scotland's drive for independence more important, and ...

The decades-long campaign for Scotland’s independence from the United Kingdom (UK) suffered a setback last month when the UK Supreme Court ruled that no new referendum can be held without London’s ...

(Bloomberg) -- Alex Salmond, who turned his Scottish National Party’s dream of power into reality even though he didn’t see his vision of an independent country come true, has died. He was 69. Salmond ...

Referendums aren't great, liberating acts of direct democracy. They offer us no revolutionary change and the debate around the question is framed by various sections of the ruling class. This is as ...

The intervention from London angered Scottish politicians, but it’s not clear that backers of independence can use the issue to their advantage. By Stephen Castle LONDON — When Scotland united with ...

Murray Leith has previously received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020, and the UK Ministry of Defence. He is currently working on research funded by the Scottish Government. If the SNP ...

Scottish flags are held by demonstrators outside the U.K. Supreme Court in London on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) (CN) — In a landmark decision Wednesday, the United Kingdom’s ...