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Ireland has voted by 66.4% to 33.6% in favour of changing its strict abortion laws.

Hurrah! We are each going to be £4,100 a year better off – I love the precision – by being more like New Zealand or maybe Finland. The “Arc of Prosperity” on which we were previously invited to stake our future is so last decade.

An independent Scotland would take up to 25 years to match the economic performance of other small countries, according to the SNP’s independence blueprint.

As a major international conference is taking shape, we consider how a global perspective can find ways to tackle issues around alcohol

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Nicola Sturgeon has been told that people growing up in the Margaret Thatcher era had more opportunities than children growing up under her “negligent” Scottish Government.

The SNP’s independence blueprint said that it would take up to a quarter of a century for Scotland to catch up with the economic performance of other small advanced countries.

compared with the razamataz of Alex Salmond’s immaculately choreographed independence White Paper, the launch of the indyref2 document was something else entirely.

There is a “real possibility” that the UK could hold a second Brexit referendum in the summer or autumn of 2019, the author of Article 50 has said.

Morgan Freeman is facing allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour.