The left must stop making fools of themselves with daft campaigns

FOR most of the 20th century being on the political left meant supporting a set of principles dating from the European Enlightenment. Humanism,...

Iain Macwhirter

3 yesterday

The highlight of my social life is bin day

DO I feel sorry for the lonely widower, aged 75, who put up a poster asking for friends and someone to speak to? I do not. These people need to man...

Robert Mcneil

4 yesterday

Forget the world and its woes, nothing stops harvest time

In two days’ time the autumn equinox will be upon us. Overnight, the hinge on which the year hangs will move imperceptibly to face towards autumn...

Rosemary Goring

4 yesterday

If only making friends as an adult wasn't so damn tricky

SOME parents were understandably anxious about schools reopening. Would our kids be safe? Does the iron still work? Has Scotland’s headlice...

Kirsty Strickland

3 yesterday

From Stirling Albion to Zululand

As an uncoordinated endomorph, my only distinction at soccer was the honour of being allowed to keep our primary school teams’s leather football...

David Vost

5 yesterday

Life can still be a beach

WE used to go abroad two or three times a year. A spring break, a couple of weeks in the summer and a week of winter sun. Sounds a bit indulgent, I...

Garry Scott

3 yesterday

Coronavirus shows Scotland is already behaving like a nation again

PERHAPS it was a sense of propriety that led the Yes movement to resist adopting a Project Fear approach to its 2014 independence campaign. More...

Kevin Mckenna

6 previous day

There is only one way unionists can stop independence

IT IS said that the difference between winners and losers is that losers focus on winners, and winners focus on winning. There is much truth in...

Andy Maciver

5 previous day

Care home residents must not be locked away from their families

THERE are still aspects of coronavirus policy on which there is disagreement – where, if anything, positions on the efficacy of lockdown, school...

Herald View

6 previous day

Cameron, Gove, Johnson are all in this woman's diary but no mention of Hibs

WHO would keep a diary? I kept one in my youth and am about to burn 12 volumes of it. Nothing but moanin’ and greetin’. Is that how I strike...

Robert Mcneil

4 previous day

While there’s hope I can keep the demons at bay

I’M finding it harder and harder to keep my spirits up and the blue hours start earlier and last longer. Today it’s only 2pm and I’m plunged...

Fidelma Cook

4 previous day

Biden and Harris could imperil peace hopes in the Middle East

FOUR years of domestic and foreign policy muddle and confusion, conveyed directly from the Oval Office by Twitter, have been topped by President...

Struan Stevenson

4 previous day

You might think I'm mad paying £4.50 for a loaf of sourdough but I think it's a bargain

I PAID, whisper it, £4.50 for a loaf of bread. I can already hear the derision: “Almost a fiver for one loaf? You’d never catch me doing that!”...

Joanna Blythman

4 previous day

Every human must be seen in the context of his time and his flaws understood – even David Hume

Joseph Farrell How David Hume would have savoured the ironies implicit in the decision of the University of Edinburgh to remove his name from one...

Joseph Farrell

4 previous day

Small talk in a pandemic has become about the need for connection

SO I'm minding my own business, grazing through a chunky tome on a bench in the Botanic Gardens. Behind me is the opaque arced swoop of the Kibble...

Catriona Stewart

5 friday

Rishi Sunak weighs novelties as job woe answer stares him in face as furlough scheme ends

CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak’s perception of the UK labour market – which for the avoidance of doubt is in reality in a grim state – seems to differ...

Ian Mcconnell

4 friday

We love you Miliband, come back May, this country needs almost anyone but Johnson

Boris Johnson is not very good at his job. Some jobs admittedly are harder than others and it turns out being Prime Minister does have more...

Rebecca Mcquillan

4 friday

Grassing, it seems, has become our coronavirus civic duty

If nothing else, this pandemic is going to leave us with an enlarged sense of irony. On the one hand we were told to step out with our neighbours on...