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I spent a chunk of last week talking to the folk behind the UK Right to Food Commission. There are 14 million people going hungry in Britain today,...
In Scotland’s artisan, cycle-lane neighbourhoods where jeopardy only lurks in changing bin-collection times, they talk occasionally of livelier...
A few years ago, talking to a senior SNP politician, I was told that the best interests of Scotland could never be served by Westminster because Tory...
The smartphone footage is shocking enough, had it been recorded anywhere else in the world. The fact of it occurring on a Saturday afternoon on...
This isn’t a column about football. It’s much bigger than that. It’s been 28 years since Scotland’s men’s team last played in a World Cup. ...
As early summer approaches, many individuals and families will soon find themselves swept up in the joy and emotion of commencement and graduation...
Chances are you haven’t noticed it yet: the first one has only just been installed in a shop in Glasgow. But keep your eyes peeled in the coming...
As a Labour leadership contest looms, it has not been surprising to see Brexit feature prominently as the likely approaches of Andy Burnham and Wes...
Scotland’s youngest children are still being failed by slow and fragmented care decisions, writes NSPCC Scotland’s Joanne Smith, who warns during...
I can guess what you might have been thinking while reading through The Herald’s list of the top 50 most exciting chefs in Scotland, because I was...
I’m often asked about Rum’s population. How many people are there now? How many kids are in the school? Does it ever get political, or awkward,...
Another week, another protest against an ill-conceived and intrusive development in one of the country’s cherished beauty spots. The last time I...
As National Volunteers’ Week comes to an end, I’ve been reflecting on what it means to be head of one of the biggest volunteer organisations in...
The result of the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections highlighted again – but ever more so this time – that it’s not quite all peachy for the...
After the revelations of the past week and the desperate attempts to pin the catastrophic failure of governance at the heart of the SNP which...
Imagine you’re a judge: the wig, the stern expression, the lot (some of you will find this easier than others). Now imagine there’s a man in the...
Most people, even many SNP stalwarts, agree that there should be an inquiry into the Peter Murrell embezzlement case. I accord with Noel Dolan, once...
There are apparently few shades of grey in the Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon saga. In political circles, and of course on X, you either think Ms...
The managers of the £16 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust provided much food for thought when they presented its annual results last week....
Has it been hours, minutes, or days? Wads of 2-ply toilet paper are wedged in my ear holes to staunch the bleeding. In trying to understand which song...
The trouble with young people today is that they just can’t pay attention, have no focus, are disrespectful, unengaged, lazy, unimaginative… I...
Earlier this week, two SNP councillors resigned three weeks after being elected as MSPs. City of Edinburgh councillors Simita Kumar and Kate...
Cannes is over for another year, and nary a sound was heard. The fleeting flash of the prestigious red carpet is, by now, long rolled up and stored...
Desecration piles upon desecration. The reputation of Henry Nowak: desecrated with lies that he was racist. His life: desecrated by the bestial...
I have spent much of my career in public service, including a long career with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, where decisions are grounded in...
The issue of funding for comedy has intensified recently, discussed from radio shows to government roundtables, but all too often presented as a...
Keir Starmer – never the most politically savvy operator – must be kicking himself that he dismissed John Swinney’s demands for a second...
“Fairly incredible” was how new Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Tourism and Transport Stephen Flynn described the progress made by Prestwick...
This article appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. So that’s the Bathing Waters season started, though many of us have been swimming...
You’re tempted to reach for the wisdom of Winston Churchill when seeking to comprehend the events of the last seven days in Scottish politics. In...
One of my most important formative experiences happened in April 1982 during the Falklands War. I was 12 and in first year at my Northern Ireland...
New SNP Government hails bullish green jobs report after suffering setbacks on major renewables projects The SNP Government has won a boost from a...
On Monday, he was shocked; on Tuesday defiant; by Thursday, he was cranky. John Swinney’s first outing at First Minister’s Questions in this new...
When Nicola Sturgeon’s autobiography, Frankly, was published, I wrote that it had been written way too soon. While its proximity to her resignation...
There’s a misconception that still permeates across the public consciousness that Scotland doesn’t vote Tory and, more broadly and in direct...
As the dust settles on the 2026 Holyrood election, Scotland’s political parties are variously celebrating their gains and licking their wounds. In...
The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry has now run for more than five years. Its own published total expenditure, up to the end of December 2025, is...
It’s always struck me as weird that Labour and the Left were so opposed to the sale of council houses. The idea was popular with the public,...
Since his re-election, First Minister John Swinney has stressed that economic growth lies at the heart of his government’s agenda. That’s...
There has been a fair smattering of good news on the Scottish business and economic front in the past week. Given the tough backdrop, such cheer is...
While the country basks in blazing sunshine and blue skies, I’m in my waterproof trousers, waiting at the ferry pier in the hopes a boat will turn...
Nowadays, you can put a camera in anything. Cameras are now so small and discreet that any innocuous household item could house one. If a plant...
“My inbox is full of energy debt issues. There’s just so much. People can’t afford to use energy like they used to and...
When it comes to housing, most attention this week has been on one big house in Saughton, and how the new resident of HMP Edinburgh’s remand wing...
You can choose your own analogy from history and mythology to portray what’s befallen Nicola Sturgeon, her estranged husband, Peter Murrell and the...
Peter Murrell, I thought, was a diligent, innovative, perceptive servant of the SNP and their wider cause. He is now an incarcerated criminal who...
I was walking down the street recently when something happened that hasn’t happened to me for at least 30 years. I heard a woman, at the end of her...
Like many, I initially responded to news that Nicola Sturgeon’s former husband was guilty of embezzling £400,000 from the SNP with the thought:...
Live music in Scotland is currently on two diverging paths. One is pulling in thousands of people into highly lucrative self-contained spaces night...
This has not been the week John Swinney was looking for. On Tuesday, at Holyrood, his new government created and won a vote to approve a request to...
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