Ian Johnston

Devolution was meant to see off SNP’s brand of centre-left nationalism but only encouraged it; tough rhetoric on immigration from mainstream politicians is designed to reduce prejudice but is instead fostering antipathy towards a fifth of the UK’s workforce – and it’s the hard-right who are benefitting

Historic battlefields should not stand in the way of valuable modern developments, argues Ian Johnston

The over-emphasis on ‘stopping the boats’ by mainstream politicians has helped create the public myth that most migrants have come to the UK illegally

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising the sea to levels dangerous to low-lying islands, but the wider effects could be even more serious

Is Edinburgh City Council’s decision to avoid offending China by not signing a friendship agreement with a Taiwanese city the right thing to do?

Amid uproar over high ‘dynamic ticketing’ prices to see Oasis, how much would you be prepared to pay to see this iconic band?

Universal benefits like free prescriptions and free university tuition increasingly look like a luxury the country cannot afford as NHS and universities struggle to make ends meet

AstraZeneca said a “small number” of its employees are under investigation by police in China, following a report they had been detained over...

The early release of violent prisoners, alongside non-violent ones, to ease dangerous overcrowding in Scotland’s jails is not only bad news for their victims, but for society as a whole

The West Country accent has become synonymous with the pirates of the so-called ‘Golden Age’ but how did they actually talk? Ian Johnston goes in search of the truth