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Nationalist leaders met in Cardiff last week for a summit. Pic: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Letter: Awakening English nationalism is greatest danger to UK

In Sinn Fein's eyes, the border on this island needs smashed - but Britain needs new ones built. Pic: (Brian Lawless/PA)

David Thompson: Balkanising Britain is all UK's nationalists offered in Cardiff

Nationalist leaders from across the UK came together in Cardiff. Pic: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

UK’s nationalist leaders come together to sign joint pledge

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Editorial: Sturgeon wasn’t details person of boasts

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Editorial: Election a deserved rebuke to Labour but show tensions that strain UK

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Editorial: NHS problems are largely the same around the UK

Lobby group For Women Scotland want the law to recognise biological sex, rather than someone's gender identity, when dealing with issues such as single sex spaces.

UK Supreme Court to deliver its verdict on what a woman is

We couldn't have disagreed more on Scotland's place in the UK, wrote Andrew Neil

Salmond was the most significant Scottish politician of modern era: Andrew Neil

The polling data indicated that more than 70 per cent of Scottish Christians believe the SNP government does not support Christian faith

Scottish Christians feel 'let down' by their government

Kate Forbes, the SNP politician, has been criticised for her membership of the Free Church. But intense worship and serious New Testament scholarship are hallmarks of the church. Photo: Michael Boyd/PA Wire

Letter: It was the Free Church which helped to shift me away from atheism

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Editorial: Scotland's hate crime law is like an April Fool, but is all too real

A spokesperson for the Scottish rock band confirmed the Canadian died on Tuesday night - Credit: Getty

Breaking Runrig lead singer Bruce Guthro dead at 62

A spokesperson for the Scottish rock band confirmed the Canadian died on Tuesday night - Credit: Getty

Breaking Runrig lead singer Bruce Guthro dead at 62

Police removed items from his Nicola Sturgeon’s home and erected an evidence tent in her garden in the first weeks of her successor Humza Yousaf’s spell as first minister.
SNP ratings are collapsing, their new leader, Yousaf, is the punchline to jokes and the separatist case is unravelling

Owen Polley: Some good news for the Union, as the Scottish nationalists implode

Ex SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon speaking to the media outside her home in Glasgow, after her husband, ex SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, was "released without charge pending further investigation", after he was arrested on Wednesday as part of a probe into the party's finances. On Nicola becoming leader her husband should have quit running the party. Photo. Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Ruth Dudley Edwards: From my sickbed I have enjoyed seeing SNP on the slide

SNP's Kate Forbes arrives at the main chamber for the vote for the new First Minister at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh yesterday. Her leadership campaign was characterised by transparency. She made it clear that political success does not trump her values. Photo: Jane Barlow/PA

Letter: I don't share her nationalism, but Forbes stood by her Christianity
A letter from Cliff Cardwell:
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Nicola Sturgeon arriving at her home in Glasgow on Thursday, a day after announcing that she will stand down as First Minister for Scotland after eight years. In that post she was responsible for many political failures. Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Letter: Nicola Sturgeon is a gifted orator, but was not a good political leader

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Editorial: Sturgeon has the insight that Sottish independence needs new leader

Nicola Sturgeon speaking during a press conference at Bute House in Edinburgh where she announced she will stand down as First Minister of Scotland

What we learnt from Nicola Sturgeon's resignation speech

Nicola Sturgeon has resigned as first minister of Scotland

Nicola Sturgeon to resign as First Minister of Scotland

Just as the SNP changed their long policy and instead backed a monarchy in an independent state, so could Sinn Fein

Sinn Fein will seek a united Ireland that is under the crown

Leaseholders in properties with dangerous cladding face up to £100k bills - here’s how your MP voted on motion to hold developers liable (Photo: Shutterstock)

Leaseholders in properties with dangerous cladding face up to £100k bills - here...

Ruth Dudley Edwards, the author and commentator, who now writes a column for the News Letter every Tuesday. She is author of 'The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions' and her most recent book is 'The Seven: the lives and legacies of the founding fathers of the Irish republic'

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Unionists have reasons to be angry but also hopeful

How did your MP score? (Photo: Shutterstock)

Every UK MP has been ranked from best to worst in new ‘People-Power Index’ - thi...

MPs are due to vote on several issues linked with an early general election in the House of Commons on Thursday.

Boris Johnson to pull plug on December general election if parliament gives vote...

A banner from Belfasts gay pride march in 2016, calling for people to back same-sex unions

On history’s side? I aim to be on eternity’s side

Prime Minister Theresa May was answering a question put to her by leader of the S.N.P. in Westminster, Ian Blackford M.P.

Is this the moment prime minister Theresa May hinted at a possible second refere...
Brexit anoraks the length and breath of the United Kingdom took to social media on Wednesday to communicate their reaction to what some are describing as prime minister, Theresa May's biggest hint at a possible second referendum.
Andrew Quinn

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Frank Field is in a great tradition of patriotic Labour MPs

SNP MSP John Mason has angered Scottish IRA victims yet again

'˜IRA tweet' MSP backs Easter Rising leader

The 10 DUP MPs in London with their party leader Arlene Foster, shortly after their election in 2017

Dominic Grieve: DUP seems to engage in tactical tricks with no long-term benefit...

John Mason MSP has caused further controversy

IRA '˜freedom fighters' MSP facing renewed backlash

A memorial to the three murdered Scottish soldiers in north Belfast

SNP MSP's '˜unbelievable' refusal to back fight for justice for murdered Scottis...

Clocks going back

When do the clocks go back? All you need to know

Alex Salmond

No jungle for me, says Alex Salmond

Prime Minsiter Theresa May

General election: Conservatives to lose overall majority - exit poll

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Scottish unionism might not be in such bad shape after all

Alex Salmond arriving for the funeral of Northern Ireland's former deputy first minister and ex-IRA commander Martin McGuinness, at St Columba's Church Long Tower, in Londonderry. Thursday March 23, 2017. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Scotland was not an oppressed nation says Alex Salmond, when asked why nationali...

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has apologised for comments about the IRA by one of her party's MSPs.

Sturgeon '˜sorry' over IRA '˜freedom fighter' Tweet

The memorial to Fusiliers John McCaig, his brother Joseph and Dougald McCaughey at White Brae on the outskirts of north Belfast where they were shot in 1971

Families of murdered Scottish soldiers query MSP's IRA apology

David McCaughey (cousin of Dougald McCaughey) at the monument for the three Scottish soldiers murdered in the IRA honeytrap attack in 1971.
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Â£10k target reached for landmark civil action against PIRA

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Sturgeon and Salmond damned by their silence on IRA remarks

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Richmond result shows the risks for Theresa May in calling a snap election

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Brexit has not given Scottish separatists any boost yet at all

Nuclear must be part of the energy mix for the near future

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Deterrence is the key point of having nuclear weapons

Tory civil war on EU is so bitter that the party will struggle to recover

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