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Struan Stevenson

Whoever succeeds Nicola Sturgeon needs to face up to the economic problems that Scottish independence would cause (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Using figures accepted by SNP, the economic cost of independence is shocking

Protests in Iran and across the world broke out after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died while in the custody of Iran's 'morality police' (Picture: Safin Hamed/AFP via Getty Images)
Protests in Iran and across the world broke out after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died while in the custody of Iran's 'morality police' (Picture: Safin Hamed/AFP via Getty Images)

Are Iran's mullahs gassing schoolgirls in revenge for protests?

New research has unveiled the potential economic impact of Scotland leaving the union. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty
New research has unveiled the potential economic impact of Scotland leaving the union. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty

Quarter of a million jobs threatened by independence, new research claims

Demonstrators carry historic flags of Iran and portraits of Reza Pahlavi, the oldest son of the last Shah of Iran, during a rally outside the Munich Security Conference (Picture:Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images)
Demonstrators carry historic flags of Iran and portraits of Reza Pahlavi, the oldest son of the last Shah of Iran, during a rally outside the Munich Security Conference (Picture:Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran's despotic mullahs must not be replaced by son of deposed Shah

During the Brexit talks, Cabinet minister Dominic Raab threatened to end negotiations unless the EU gave way on one point, but backtracked when Michel Barnier called his bluff (Picture: John Thys/AFP via Getty Images)
During the Brexit talks, Cabinet minister Dominic Raab threatened to end negotiations unless the EU gave way on one point, but backtracked when Michel Barnier called his bluff (Picture: John Thys/AFP via Getty Images)

Grand illusion of Brexit puts ‘Scexit’ in a new light – Struan Stevenson

A protester poses in mock gallows during a rally held in central London this month against the Iranian regime (Picture: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images)
A protester poses in mock gallows during a rally held in central London this month against the Iranian regime (Picture: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images)

Ireland must not re-open its embassy in Iran – Struan Stevenson

Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, seen at the Cannes Film Festival in May, has been arrested and charged with 'spreading falsehoods against the regime' (Picture: Christophe Simon/AFP via Getty Images)
Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, seen at the Cannes Film Festival in May, has been arrested and charged with 'spreading falsehoods against the regime' (Picture: Christophe Simon/AFP via Getty Images)

Will world ignore plea from arrested actress as Iran’s tyrants kill its people?

A photograph of Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, stands on a table among candles during a demonstration by supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Berlin (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
A photograph of Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, stands on a table among candles during a demonstration by supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Berlin (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Brutally slow public hanging of Iranian protester shows why West must act

People hold up placards during a rally in Paris last month in support of the anti-government demonstrations in Iran (Picture: Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images)
People hold up placards during a rally in Paris last month in support of the anti-government demonstrations in Iran (Picture: Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images)

Protests against Iran's fascist regime are turning into a full-scale revolution

Protests against the Iranian regime, like this one in Tehran on Saturday, have been held across the country in recent weeks (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)
Protests against the Iranian regime, like this one in Tehran on Saturday, have been held across the country in recent weeks (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

As Iranians make bid for freedom, West must shut down mullahs’ propagandists

Vladimir Putin has been compared to Adolf Hitler by protesters all over the world, including these people in Tel Aviv, Israel, in March (Picture: Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)
Vladimir Putin has been compared to Adolf Hitler by protesters all over the world, including these people in Tel Aviv, Israel, in March (Picture: Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin is a Nazi and Russians are starting to realise it – Struan Stevenson

Nasibe Samsaei, an Iranian woman living in Turkey, holds up her ponytail after cutting it off during a protest outside the Iranian consulate in Istanbul (Picture: Yasin Akgul/AFP via Getty Images)
Nasibe Samsaei, an Iranian woman living in Turkey, holds up her ponytail after cutting it off during a protest outside the Iranian consulate in Istanbul (Picture: Yasin Akgul/AFP via Getty Images)

Struan Stevenson: Fury over woman's death in morality police custody rocks Iran

People step on a poster of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi as they protest outside the United Nations building in New York City (Picture: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
People step on a poster of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi as they protest outside the United Nations building in New York City (Picture: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Iran's president, the Butcher of Tehran, may now face justice after going to US

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran last month (Picture: Sergei Savostyanov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran last month (Picture: Sergei Savostyanov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran's bloodsoaked president must be banned from UN General Assembly

Mourners stand on a bridge during a funeral procession for Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, killed outside Baghdad airport in January 2020 by a US drone strike (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
Mourners stand on a bridge during a funeral procession for Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, killed outside Baghdad airport in January 2020 by a US drone strike (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

The pillars of Iran’s tyrannical regime are collapsing – Struan Stevenson

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, seen at a previous event, said the Rabat conference sought religious freedom 'in every possible sense of these words' (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, seen at a previous event, said the Rabat conference sought religious freedom 'in every possible sense of these words' (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Support for UN treaty to ban political abuses of religion is growing

An unidentified Iranian missile in front of a large portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a square in south Tehran (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
An unidentified Iranian missile in front of a large portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a square in south Tehran (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

Ayatollah's son reveals Iran was secretly trying to build a nuclear bomb

Then US President Donald Trump holds up a memorandum reinstating sanctions on Iran in 2018 (Picture: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Then US President Donald Trump holds up a memorandum reinstating sanctions on Iran in 2018 (Picture: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Iran may be working on secret nuclear weapon and plotting to assassinate Trump

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran in 2018 (Picture: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran in 2018 (Picture: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin's appeasers in West must not make same mistake over Iran’s despotic regime

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained in Iran for nearly six years, has been released (Picture: Zaghari-Ratcliffe family via AP)
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained in Iran for nearly six years, has been released (Picture: Zaghari-Ratcliffe family via AP)

What deal has UK done to free Iran's hostages? – Struan Stevenson

German troops crossing the River San during the invasion of Poland in 1939 (Picture: Keystone/Getty Images)
German troops crossing the River San during the invasion of Poland in 1939 (Picture: Keystone/Getty Images)

Why West should be mobilising for a full-scale European war – Struan Stevenson

Protesters hold posters of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Major General Qassem Soleimani outside the US Consulate in Istanbul after he was killed by a drone strike (Picture: Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
Protesters hold posters of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Major General Qassem Soleimani outside the US Consulate in Istanbul after he was killed by a drone strike (Picture: Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Iran's call for UN to punish Trump just shows its hypocrisy – Struan Stevenson

Newt Gingrich speaks at the Free Iran 2018 - the Alternative event held in Villepinte, north of Paris, in 2018. (Picture: Zakaria Abdelkafi /AFP via Getty Images)
Newt Gingrich speaks at the Free Iran 2018 - the Alternative event held in Villepinte, north of Paris, in 2018. (Picture: Zakaria Abdelkafi /AFP via Getty Images)

West must end appeasement of Iran over foiled terror plot – Struan Stevenson

Smog obscures the view from the Saad Abad mountain north of the Iranian capital Tehran in January this year (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
Smog obscures the view from the Saad Abad mountain north of the Iranian capital Tehran in January this year (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

How Iran's totalitarian mullahs have wrecked the environment – Struan Stevenson

Supporters of the People's Mojahedin of Iran protest outside a Stockholm court on the first day of the trial of an Iranian man for war crimes over the execution of political prisoners in 1988 in Karaj, Iran (Picture: Stefan Jerrevang/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images)
Supporters of the People's Mojahedin of Iran protest outside a Stockholm court on the first day of the trial of an Iranian man for war crimes over the execution of political prisoners in 1988 in Karaj, Iran (Picture: Stefan Jerrevang/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Iran's president will be terrified by war crimes trial – Struan Stevenson

Incoming Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi speaks during his first press conference following the election in Tehran (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
Incoming Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi speaks during his first press conference following the election in Tehran (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Iran's new president should be indicted for mass murder – Struan Stevenson

Ebrahim Raisi, head of Iran's judiciary, waves to journalists while registering his candidacy for the upcoming presidential elections at the Interior Ministry in Tehran (Picture: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
Ebrahim Raisi, head of Iran's judiciary, waves to journalists while registering his candidacy for the upcoming presidential elections at the Interior Ministry in Tehran (Picture: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Why Iran's next president could be the clerical regime's last – Struan Stevenson

The head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, left, meets the visiting Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi in Tehran in February (Picture: AFPTV/pool/AFP via Getty Images)
The head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, left, meets the visiting Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi in Tehran in February (Picture: AFPTV/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

US must not join Europe in appeasing Iran's despotic regime – Struan Stevenson

This conference near Paris in June 2018 was said to be the target of a bomb plot by alleged Iranian agents. Front row, from left: Canadian foreign minister John Baird, retired Canadian politician Stephen Joseph, Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt, Maryam Rajavi, leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran, Rudolph Giuliani, attorney to President Donald Trump, and former US Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (Picture: Zakaria Abdelkafi/AFP via Getty Images)
This conference near Paris in June 2018 was said to be the target of a bomb plot by alleged Iranian agents. Front row, from left: Canadian foreign minister John Baird, retired Canadian politician Stephen Joseph, Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt, Maryam Rajavi, leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran, Rudolph Giuliani, attorney to President Donald Trump, and former US Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (Picture: Zakaria Abdelkafi/AFP via Getty Images)

West must end appeasement of terrorist regime in Tehran – Struan Stevenson

Ordinary Iranians are sick of the mullah's regime, says Struan Stevenson (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
Ordinary Iranians are sick of the mullah's regime, says Struan Stevenson (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran's sick boast about its 'different' human rights – Struan Stevenson

Chancellor Rishi Sunak heads up the UK Treasury
Chancellor Rishi Sunak heads up the UK Treasury

Nicola Sturgeon urged to involve UK Government in Scots Covid plan

A man holds a portrait of Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari during a demonstration in Amsterdam against his execution in Iran (Picture: Evert Elzinga/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
A man holds a portrait of Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari during a demonstration in Amsterdam against his execution in Iran (Picture: Evert Elzinga/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

How world should respond to brutal judicial murder in Iran – Struan Stevenson

What message should Nicola Sturgeon take from this weeek's GERS figures? (Photo by Fraser Bremner - Pool/Getty Images)
What message should Nicola Sturgeon take from this weeek's GERS figures? (Photo by Fraser Bremner - Pool/Getty Images)

Sticking with UK is best for Scotland – Letters

Mustafa al-Kadhimi opposed Saddam Hussein and, after he was forced to flee the country, lived in Iran, Germany and the UK (Picture: Hussein Faleh/AFP via Getty Images)
Mustafa al-Kadhimi opposed Saddam Hussein and, after he was forced to flee the country, lived in Iran, Germany and the UK (Picture: Hussein Faleh/AFP via Getty Images)

Can Iraq's new pro-West prime minister save his country? – Struan Stevenson

Warships take part in joint Iran-Russia-China naval drills held in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman in December (Picture: Iranian Army office/AFP via Getty Images)
Warships take part in joint Iran-Russia-China naval drills held in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman in December (Picture: Iranian Army office/AFP via Getty Images)

A dangerous new global alliance is being formed – Struan Stevenson

Struan Stevenson.
Struan Stevenson.

Extend Brexit talks or risk catastrophic hit to economy, ex-Tory MEP warns

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Outgoing First Minister Nicola Sturgeon leaves the main chamber after her last First Minster's Questions in the main chamber of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire
Outgoing First Minister Nicola Sturgeon leaves the main chamber after her last First Minster's Questions in the main chamber of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Sturgeon officially tenders resignation as First Minister to King Charles III

The Scotsman's Conor Matchett, Alistair Grant and Alexander Brown discuss the SNP leadership result.
The Scotsman's Conor Matchett, Alistair Grant and Alexander Brown discuss the SNP leadership result.

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Humza Yousaf speaks after being elected as new SNP party leader
Humza Yousaf speaks after being elected as new SNP party leader

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