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"At some point in the 21st century, all homes will be zero-carbon. At some point in this century, all buildings of any kind will be...
In the summer of 2022, a slightly strange story appeared in the pages of several Scottish national newspapers. The gist of it was that Andy Burnham,...
Time is frequently the enemy of politicians. They may yearn for a period of calm reflection – but the political calendar demands action. That is...
At 7pm, my email inbox chimes: “Might need help” is the subject line, and it’s from a visitor who has checked out of my hostel just 12 hours...
I WAS standing in an unflattering hard hat in the middle of George Square the other day with Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken watching a...
Just three nights before the official return of Scotland’s biggest cultural celebration there was little sense of what is about to unfold in...
My independence is currently in storage. Somewhere between the boxes of books, kitchen equipment, and assorted crap I have accumulated over four years...
It is a constant surprise to me that politicians almost never ask themselves what their opponents do not want them to do. I have been advising,...
Brexit has been firmly in the spotlight in Andy Burnham’s early days as Prime Minister. The Liberal Democrats delivered the following message for...
By many measures, 2026 was a good year for exam results: pass rates slightly increased, the attainment gap between rich and poor slightly declined,...
You would expect any reasonable student or staff member at Cambridge University to understand the modern proverb, “if it sounds too good to be true,...
It has become a common rite of passage for small bands to play King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. It was the venue where Alan McGee of Creation Records...
Art workers in Scotland are helpless. Despite public outcry, the contents of the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow are now largely gone, sold to...
You’re tempted to spare a thought for John Swinney after reading Nicola Sturgeon’s new epilogue for her memoir, Frankly. Mr Swinney has spent the...
As I was preparing to head over to Royal Dornoch Golf Club, a dove settled outside my window; its song a gentle invocation for the day ahead. The...
The latest SQA statistics are another strong showcase of the hard work and talent of pupils and teachers in Computing Science across Scotland. In...
Policing is being reshaped in ways few outside the service understand. But fewer officers, fewer cells and weaker supervision risk leaving communities...
It was heartening, although perhaps not surprising, to see a significant vote of confidence in Glasgow from a major UK financial institution. Building...
This column appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. In some ways, the guga hunt is just the most visible expression of human impact on...
We’ve gotten used to exam results day being a fraught and scandal-hit affair. Over the last decade or so, students have endured a series of crises,...
It has been three and a half weeks since a fire ripped through 109-112 Princes Street, closing the thoroughfare to traffic and cutting off trams to...
You can take your pick from quirk of fate or outrageous good fortune, but it’s generally one or the other to which people ascribe the events which...
You might as well be entering another country when you spend time in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Other regions of the UK have their own...
From this past Friday, the world has been trading while insolvent with nature. This year's Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 30 – the point...
A snapshot from the past. It’s 1993, a flat in Edinburgh, and two young women aged 19 and 20 are in the kitchen. They are having an afternoon snack....
A reset is needed in the way Scotland values different educational pathways, and pupils need more options at an earlier age, writes Edinburgh College...
The Bank of England (BoE) has voted to keep the central interest rate at 3.75% as had widely been expected. Six members of its Monetary Policy...
WHEN he was President of the US, Ronald Reagan used to enjoy cracking jokes during TV addresses, mainly at the expense of the Soviet Union and his...
"Why is it so hot?" "Is it from climate change?" "Will it be hotter when I grow up?" Over the last few weeks many of us...
“Glasgow doesn't need fancy festivals to prove its soul. Glasgow doesn’t need to wait for a specific season to get cultural. Glasgow...
I’m sure I’m not alone in finding the Andy Burnham ‘King of the North’ patter rather irksome. The same commentators who would balk at the idea...
When he was President of the US, Ronald Reagan used to enjoy cracking jokes during TV addresses, mainly at the expense of the Soviet Union and his...
First Minister John Swinney is expected to unveil his new Programme for Government when Holyrood returns from summer recess in a few weeks. It will...
Glasgow South West MP Dr Zubir Ahmed writes that last week's disorder did not come from nowhere and that condemnations, however swift, are no...
Now it’s nearly over, it feels weirdly personal. It started last May when I was in Weatherspoons – as I almost always am – and sat and watched a...
I heard a phrase this week: nine months in, nine months out. My son turns nine months old today, and the time he has spent in the world now matches...
Henry Kissinger was perhaps the first global statesman to recognise – and deploy – the football’s soft power. The great US diplomatic chiseller,...
As the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games draw to a close, people across Scotland can take enormous pride in what has been achieved. Over the past week,...
A favourite new Edinburgh pastime is bemoaning the cost of a cup of coffee. Listening to complainers - who include me - is like going to an auction,...
When exam results start to land with students next week, it is inevitable that a significant proportion will be disappointed with some or all of their...
A fast start. And hopefully a sign of things to come. Because pace is precisely what is needed here. The Prime Minister’s announcement of the...
“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does,” said Nelson Mandela speaking at the...
In a downstairs cavern in Glasgow’s Garage nightclub, a rock god is rehearsing an intimate concert for 100 or so devotees later that evening. This...
There is, these days, a palpable sense of energy associated with Number 10, whether in Downing Street or Manchester. A drive to get things done. We...
The Prime Minister made three dramatic announcements this week. Firstly, he announced that the results of a review on social care will be announced a...
Exam results are to be released in a few days, marking the culmination of a year of work for thousands of students and their teachers and lecturers....
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Hello and welcome to Funding Challenges, a new show with a terrible title...
‘The greatest risk is not of money, but misjudgement’ T.S Elliot For those of us of a certain age who live and work on Scotland's western...
"What the hell will you do with a philosophy degree?" Is a question I heard whilst studying English and Philosophy, usually accompanied by a...
There is a strong case to consider Scottish politics extraordinarily boring. We are not a one-party state, but we are a jurisdiction in which only one...
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