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“I was finally offered a flat they said was suitable, but it had all these adaptations I didn’t need. I have no use for a pull...
There has recently been some criticism of Scottish education following the latest PISA international comparison of standards in reading, maths and...
One small advantage Edinburgh’s Georgian City Chambers has over Victorian civic piles is the lack of fixed seats in the main auditorium. As party...
It is one of the great ironies of Scottish politics that the party which legislated to recreate Scotland’s Parliament is now struggling to maintain...
There I am at the dump, putting paper in the paper recycling and cans in the cans and plastics in the plastics and generally being a responsible,...
It is only six months or so since I made a bold prediction about Edinburgh’s new visitor levy. As I emerged from a briefing on the city council’s...
There is a long history of Scots right at the top of Britain’s intelligence services. Meta Ramsay, from Glasgow, who I got to know well before her...
It’s been a terrible week for redheaded songwriter and spectre-of-supermarket-speakers Ed Sheeran, to put it mildly. And the source of the chaos has...
Every meeting on every day is, I suppose, historic in a literal sense. However we are asked by nationalists around the British Isles to regard...
The University of Strathclyde’s Professor Sir John Curtice usually has something interesting to say. And, characteristically, his comments published...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. I’ve been a full-time journalist for more than three years now, and while I’ve...
I walk through what I think is the main door of Frasers, although there are several along Buchanan Street, and enter the makeup department. Electric...
A Story Worth Killing For, VJ Randle Lauren Lowes didn’t anticipate waking up to a sight like this when she excitedly signed her first book deal....
The narrative surrounding Glasgow city centre is often relentlessly bleak. Antisocial behaviour. Closures. Vacant units. Reduced footfall as more of...
It is hard to think of a single pair of announcements which could have so immediately convulsed the British political system as the apparently casual...
Here's a story about two Englishmen. The first was a very famous journalist, a doyen of the liberal media. During dinner with him, and a flock of...
Every time my wife and I go shopping these days, I’ll wait until her back is turned and then slip some tins of repellent awfulness into the trolley:...
The growing shortage of physics teachers in Scotland can lead to worsening educational divides and compromise economic growth, writes Dr Iain Moore,...
In September 2010 I called a summit of political leaders in Scotland as swingeing cuts to police funding were being mooted. I did think about just...
A couple of views on Scottish income tax this month have grabbed the attention. Somewhat predictably, given Reform UK’s pugnacious approach, we have...
This article appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. The results from a new study on sea lice movement and distribution are a reminder...
Recovery for Scottish Labour is not guaranteed. That's the toughest lesson the party has learned since leaving office 20 years ago. The SNP has...
I keep getting struck by disturbing similarities between myself and Andy Burnham. I don’t mean this in a positive way - for either of us. You...
For the last two years, there’s been a rising tide of anti-immigrant protests north and south of the Border after the murder of three children in...
Both north and south of the border, governments continue to struggle to reconcile the demands of the public in wanting tangible action during a...
This article appears as part of the Money HQ with Ben Stark newsletter. For years, many people viewed their pension as more than just a source of...
Two stories have defined Scotland’s energy industry in the last decade. While renewables have grown to the point where the UK is now a world leader...
I have always been a bit of a fan of police and crime dramas, even the really bad ones, and they have taught me some valuable lessons down the years....
Andy Burnham intends to make devolution one of the defining features of his premiership. His plans for England promise greater autonomy for...
It has been interesting to watch the latest developments at Standard Life and at the financial giant formerly known by that name, both based in...
It’s hard to believe really that Ricky Bell, the new boss of Glasgow Council, is only the second leader of the city to be appointed from the...
At 6.50am on Sunday, I’m standing at Rum’s pier handing out life jackets to half a dozen people. Before this weekend, they were strangers, saying...
It might be a sign of how often I tune into the BBC that I’m beginning to feel tortured by the drip-feed of its catchphrase ‘This is our BBC’....
As a born and bred Weegie exiled in the apparently cold east, I afforded myself a chuckle at my fellow columnist Kevin McKenna’s interview with...
If you want to observe what a dusk-till-dawn curfew looks like, visit Lennoxtown towards the end of next month. For five days, when darkness falls,...
One can only imagine the atmosphere in Downing Street as loyal advisers gazed intently at the screen, witnessing the scene as their boss got into a...
You’ve got to feel sorry for these people really, the poor dears. First, they had to pack away all their Father Ted DVDs, never again to hear the...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. I’m not sure that the BBC could manage to offend and irritate Scots more...
MPs attending Parliament today to vote on the new assisted dying Bill could be tempted to think nothing has changed since they voted on the same issue...
The date was set. The sparkling diamond ring had been picked. Gavin Cushny and Susan Brady of New York and New Jersey were to be married on October...
Having written extensively on the Scottish Event Campus over the years, there has never been any doubt about the merits of its ambitions for another...
Mairi McAllan is now Scotland’s Education Secretary, but rewind just over a decade and she had just completed her Law degree, practicing as a...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. It has been a few years, but there’s nothing quite like PISA Day to remind you of...
Let's talk about the £948.01 pine box. What’s so special about this pine box? Perhaps it comes with some rare Pokémon card nestled inside....
As Scots, self-deprecation is our default factory setting. The reaction to the bid for UNESCO recognition of the morning roll was, in that sense,...
Scotland’s energy industry is at a crucial juncture and a decision due to be made soon could have wide-ranging repercussions for the sector and the...
I suppose I should be grateful to William and Kate Windsor. Not for any grovelling reason. I’m certainly no monarchist. But for knocking the last...
Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken’s comments as a new body launched with the remit of “shaping the city’s voice to the world” certainly...
John Swinney’s speech launching his new Programme for Government was a curious thing to watch. The FM is not a naturally flamboyant speaker or even...
This column appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. “We need education. We need more firebreaks,” said Sandy McCook, chair of Nethy...
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