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Rebecca McquillanHerald Scotland |
They’re at it again. The Scottish Greens are annoying people. Alex Salmond’s Alba won’t appear on the bill of a planned pro-independence rally...
Thank God. At last an authoritative voice in the trans so-called debate. The Cass Review into gender services for young people in England has found...
Demoralised. Discouraged. Fed up: the public sentiment that emerges from the latest survey into satisfaction with the NHS should put the frighteners...
Should the ScotRail booze ban remain in place? Rail bosses have been consulting on what to do about it. Speaking to a Holyrood committee this week,...
It’s not often I find myself agreeing with Jeremy Corbyn but he was right this week in his remarks about Diane Abbott, whom he called a trailblazer...
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...
Suella Braverman, a former Tory Home Secretary, wrote an inflammatory article asserting without evidence that “Islamists, extremists and...
The SNP has found a new role, positioning itself as the conscience of the Labour party. The party’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn, welcoming Keir...
It was the unfortunate high-handed tone that hit home. Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland yesterday, Finance Secretary and Deputy First Minister Shona...
I’m not so sure. Most of us, if asked, would probably prefer not to have them at the end of our road. But once they’re there, how many of us...
Were we right to put so much faith in our Covid leaders here in Scotland during the pandemic? Early in the outbreak, famously, Nicola Sturgeon...
There are some questions politicians prefer not to talk about if they can possibly avoid it. One is: can Scotland’s policy of free university...
If you’ll forgive me wallowing for a moment in some post-Christmas gloom, 2024 looks like being a bit rubbish. Inadequate wages, yawning inequality,...
There hasn’t been much to love about 2023, but by 'eck, as Pat the deceased Scout Master would say, we’ve been blessed to have Ghosts. If you...
So the SNP has published its “difficult” budget. In a tight funding round, ministers set out to limit damage to public services and bear down on...
Class photos haven’t changed much. The top row stands, the middle row sits and the front row lines up cross-legged on the floor, just as children...
If you believe some people, modern Britain is beset by three dastardly threats: small boats, woke ideology and, perhaps worst of all, heat pumps. ...
Ireland, like Scotland, takes pride in its reputation for friendliness. Having experienced high levels of immigration over a short time period, the...
Scotland wasn’t a nation bursting with national pride back in the 1980s, with the pits and shipyards closing, and political discontent rife, but we...
Was that really the very best we could do? That question hangs unspoken in the air at the Scottish Covid inquiry like a bitter rebuke. The inquiry...
We knew Boris Johnson was incompetent and a liar, but he was apparently heartless too. According to a note made in March 2020 by Johnson’s private...
We knew Boris Johnson was incompetent and a liar, but he was apparently heartless too. According to a note made in March 2020 by Johnson’s private...
It’s going to be another grim winter in Scotland’s hospitals. Updating Holyrood this week, Health Secretary Michael Matheson didn’t pick his...
It was supposed to be today. Back in June 2022, Nicola Sturgeon promised that today, October 19, 2023, Scotland would go to the polls in a second...
One day my daughter will realise I’ve been fibbing to her. As parents we edit our language for our children’s consumption all the time, to avoid...
Does Britain have to be able to control its borders? The answer, from left and right, is yes to both. But how you do it is another matter. The...
How concerned should we be about ultra-processed food? And if you wanted to cut it out of your diet, following a slew of worrying studies on it, how...
Hear that? It’s the sound of silence. Earlier this summer, talk of an independence referendum finally went quiet. Like a broken car alarm, it had...
In some parts of the Scottish Conservative party, there is no greater insult than to be compared to the former SNP leader. There are people who...