In a referendum held last September, voters in Scotland rejected declaring independence from Britain, but by a 55-45 percent margin, much closer than most people expected only a few months before.

The new Scottish Government has pledged to establish a National Council for Economic Growth within its first 100 days. As my friend and former colleague Stephen Boyd argued recently in The Herald, the ...

THE Scots have always prided themselves that their education system is superior to that south of the border. But there is one new feature of Scottish education—a 35-hour working week for school ...

How do you deal with a political party that doesn’t even want to be in office? That’s the question that British politicians are asking themselves in the ramp-up to the 2015 UK election. Less than a ...

Scottish voters on Thursday chose to keep Scotland a part of the United Kingdom in a referendum on independence. Before the vote, independence movements in the U.S. looked to the Scottish secession ...

The referendum in Scotland and the result must be full of lessons for individual federalists and government groups in countries composed of many nations. Although there are vast cultural and social ...

"Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?" This is the question the people of Scotland will be asked today as the country holds a referendum that could see an independent Scotland ...

Scotland’s recent referendum did not end in a majority vote for independence. But the remarkable exercise in democracy has resulted in a renewed push toward a federal system for the constituent parts ...

As an outsider, I look at the Church in the United States with a certain amount of envy. Compared to the United Kingdom, you’re stronger and more blessed than you probably know. However, despite the ...