As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
We interrupt this column to bring you the latest shocking development from the White House.
It emerged last night that President Donald Trump has used an executive order to announce his plans to change the two-centuryold Latin inscription on the nation’s seal.
As of April this year the US seal will no longer bear the legend “E pluribus unum” (out of many, one) but rather Trump’s own family motto: “Carpe pudendum.”
Like the president in Wag the Dog, Donald Trump faces scandal at home and turns to conflict abroad. But the conflict with Iran risks igniting a regional inferno with global consequences, warns ROGER McKENZIE
Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
The New York mayoral candidate has electrified the US public with policies of social justice and his refusal to be cowed. We can follow his example here, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE



