After taking on the huge threat posed by Greenland, Canada and Mexico, and proposing to carry out ethic cleansing in Gaza, ...

France and the UK, Europe's only two nuclear-armed powers, have scaled back their forces since the end of the Cold War, but ...

Bookclub, presented by James Naughtie, speaks to the author Christopher Brookmyre, as he takes questions from a live BBC audience about his debut novel, Quite Ugly One Morning. The book is a pacey ...

The UK government is hiking defence spending to help build up Europe's forces against Russia — but decades of funding cuts ...

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he plans to offer a "gold card" granting wealthy applicants a path to ...

Jordan Bardella, leader of France's National Rally, cancelled his appearance at CPAC after Steve Bannon made an apparent Nazi ...

He published A Scots Quair, as the trilogy became known, between 1932-1934, the final volume appearing just a year before his untimely death aged 33. The journalist and author James Naughtie was ...

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (real name James Leslie Mitchell) The journalist and author James Naughtie was brought up in nearby Banffshire and knows well the area in which Sunset Song is set. He ...

It was the programme which brought to TV audiences one of the great 20th Century novels and revolutionised how drama was made in Scotland. Now, 54 years later, BBC Scotland's ground-breaking 1971 ...

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