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 ...

(Bloomberg) -- A renewed push for Scottish independence is about to force its way onto embattled UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s agenda. The debate over a second referendum on Scotland breaking with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite setbacks, the Scottish independence question is merely delayed but far from resolved. Now that the United Kingdom has formally left the European Union, the next challenge is to define the UK’s ...

Fraser McMillan receives funding from the ESRC as a Scottish Election Study Research Associate. He also receives ESRC funds as the ScotGov Tracker project's Principal Investigator. Ailsa Henderson ...