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Kevin MckennaThe Guardian |
DOES anyone actually give a Friar Tuck about reaching net zero? By “anyone” I refer, of course, to the people whose lives and futures, we’re...
When Humza Yousaf took to the stage of Dundee’s Caird Hall on Tuesday to address STUC delegates, few among the audience were expecting the rafters...
The most divisive and antagonistic debate in modern UK politics effectively started with a message of tolerance and hope. It was tweeted in December,...
ONE of the Scottish independence movement’s leading thinkers has accused the Scottish Greens of doing “enormous damage to the SNP”. Jim...
HOLYROOD’S four main obsessions are - in no particular order - hate crime; gender recognition reform; assisted dying and minimum unit alcohol...
No one else does down Scotland quite as often and quite as gleefully as the SNP does down Scotland. As well as being tiresome and downright...
An unwelcome consequence of devolution has been the emergence of an elite political class reinforced by a new salon left. What was unavoidable, of...
ON the third floor of a gloriously chaotic study in University Gardens in Glasgow mounds of books are defying the laws of precipitation. And so you...
I was told last week that when it was first proposed that a painting of Mick McGahey be hung in the National Galleries of Scotland in...
Alcohol minimum unit pricing is a policy that divides opinion. As part of our Scotland & Alcohol series, we asked two of our writers to put the case...
AT the end of my interview with Stuart Cosgrove yesterday, he said this: “I’ll probably get f****** sacked from Off The Ball now.” The prospect...
I FIRST encountered the plague of anti-Semitism currently disfiguring the UK in a letter that a Jewish friend had shared with me. Only a few days...
The Scottish Government’s attempt to criminalise parents for protecting their children in its proposed conversion therapy ban reveals some troubling...
I’m surely not alone in feeling a shard of sympathy for Gregg Wallace after he shared his Saturday routine in one of those Life in a Day columns...
THE US political drama Scandal was purportedly based on the experiences of the Washington fixer, Judy Smith, played by Kerry Washington. During a...
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the achievement of my old school, St Ninian’s, Kirkintilloch, in reaching its 150th anniversary. In particular, I’m...
THE centenary of the UK’s first Labour Government will spark a forest of analysis on the extent to which it improved the lives of those whom it...
THE rite of baptism in the Catholic Church states that parents are the first educators of their child and that, as such, they bear all the...
OF all the former UK Prime Ministers still active in public life, only Gordon Brown has strived to improve the lives of those most in need of help....
Once, a visit to Sauchiehall Street was imbued with pomp and ceremony. It lit up a million west of Scotland childhoods and provided those moments...
IT seems that we’re in the midst of a contrived and fatuous debate about women media pundits in men’s football. It’s rooted in an ignorant...
AS 2024 approaches each of Scotland’s main political parties are finalising their lists of preferred candidates for next year’s UK election. Here,...
On each fresh visit to St Andrews you begin with a tour of inspection, lest anything untoward has occurred in your absence. Do the old university...
IT didn’t take long for Lisa Mackenzie to become aware that raising concerns about self-ID and Gender Recognition Reform from a women’s...
There's a view prevalent in some sections of the wider Yes movement that MI5 spooks have been active within the SNP for many years. It explains, they...
On Saturday afternoon, a little procession moved through Glasgow’s city centre and out towards the west. Around 70 souls, representing the main...
OF COURSE, judged by any reasonable measure of what voters deem to be acceptable behaviour in high public office Michael Matheson probably should...
WHEN Suella Braverman seeks solace in the tattooed folds of the Tory hard right this morning, she’ll be cheered all the way by Sir Keir Starmer. The...
A RIPPLE of consternation swept across some sections of the Catholic Church with the announcement that Nicola Sturgeon had been invited to deliver the...
Ash Regan's defection to Alba last week should be a teachable moment for the SNP. The party’s immediate response, though, suggests that it will...
ASH REGAN’S defection to Alba last week should be a teachable moment for the SNP. The party’s immediate response, though, suggests that it will...
Ash Regan, the former SNP leadership contender, who has joined Alba says many of her former colleagues in Humza Yousaf's party are very unhappy. ...
Extract from the Covid Diary of Nigel Harpenden-Chorley, Special Adviser at the Department of Policy Engagement (DoPE). February 7, 2021: Following...
Extract from the Covid Diary of Nigel Harpenden-Chorley, Special Adviser at the Department of Policy Engagement (DoPE). February 7, 2021: Following...
In the middle of Sarti’s at its Bath Street entrance, a long table has been assembled, comprising several smaller ones pushed together. A party...
Three days after the worst atrocity committed against their people since the Holocaust, Glasgow’s Jewish community elected to abjure bitterness and...
IN Germany next summer Scotland will begin the defence of our qualification for the Covid-delayed 2021 Euros. These are heady days for our...
FOR those of us who retained a sliver of hope that independence might yet be achieved in what remains of our allotted timespan the result of the...
IN the shape-shifting and treacherous terrain of professional football there’s often fun to be had observing sporadic outbreaks of maudlin...
IN Fort William last Friday afternoon, a gathering took place which captured many of the problems faced by Highland communities after the camper vans...
AT Fort William, on the north-eastern shores of Loch Linnhe where a lukewarm sun is being menaced by delinquent showers, Kate Forbes is the essence of...
MY inbox is bursting with complaints from people who have been triggered by the recent conduct of some in the SNP’s career wing. What seems to...
A SERIES of landmark reforms, starting in 1832 slowly opened the door to universal suffrage. Over the course of the next 96 years, Britain went from...
GIVEN the circumstances, few attending last year’s SNP conference in Aberdeen were complaining much about the location. After a lengthy hiatus owing...
More than 25 years ago at Cartha Queen’s Park rugby club on Glasgow’s south side I hosted an event sponsored by Scotland on Sunday newspaper. We...