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It is the drowsy hum of bees and the sun on the back of my neck that I remember most vividly. That, and the head-high rows of ripe raspberries which...
One of the best-known names in the overseas travel sector in Scotland celebrated its 50th birthday at a dinner at Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket last...
There’s a quiet truth emerging in Scottish football: no one’s coming to bail us out. For clubs like St Mirren – embedded in the community,...
I must have blinked and missed it. This was the week John Swinney was supposed to set out his ‘vision’ for independence. The irony is: there’s no...
Scottish politics is different now than it was a fortnight ago. Labour’s surprise win in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election has...
Being poor is more expensive than being rich. That concept baffles a lot of people, but it’s true. It’s what many call the poverty premium. The...
In my long experience, politics is a short-term business. That is driven partly by participants, partly by the people and partly by the press, the...
It was revealed this week that a headteacher in Scotland wrote to parents suggesting the Union flag could be considered a sectarian emblem, but...
Good luck, Thomas Frank. It can't be easy for a manager to fill a vacancy when there was uproar surrounding his predecessor's dismissal. And it...
Every speaker was heard in respectful silence, but then councillors debating a report into the handling of allegations of sexual harassment against...
The First Minister gave two major speeches at the start of this week. In the first, delivered to an audience at the Imaging Centre of Excellence at...
Millions of people were transfixed by the TV drama Adolescence recently and not just because of the dark theme of misogynist radicalisation. It was...
The argument is straightforward. The two child cap is irrational, discriminatory and should go. The £2.5 billion required to get rid of it should...
It had not quite registered that Scotland’s national stadium would play host to one of the most notorious woman beaters of my generation because...
The cautionary tales surrounding AI art get ever more ridiculous and concerning. Superstar music producer Timbaland has announced an AI record...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. This week the SQA has released material reviewing its handling of the 2024 exam...
If you’re living with a severe mental illness in today’s Scotland, your average life expectancy is 15 to 20 years shorter than other people's. ...
The Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election provided lots to talk about. An alarming, and overlooked, implication is for our voting system....
Big change is difficult, but if we are genuine about tackling destitution, poverty and financial insecurity, then it is necessary. Today, a group...
There was much to grab the attention in the latest foreign direct investment figures for Scotland published this week. The top lines were mostly...
There’s little guaranteed to get veins pumping on the necks of the great, full-breakfast-eating, Clarkson-chuckling, rights-demanding British...
A slab of freshly baked focaccia is a joyous, life-affirming thing. Oily, doughy, bubbly, salty. There are few foodie pleasures greater than...
A healthy dose of scepticism should always be applied to any government spending announcements – especially when the accompanying spin machine hits...
It feels longer than a week since the Chancellor of the Exchequer got to her feet and unveiled the UK’s most significant spending review in years....
I was in town last week, which gave me a chance to see how dear old Sauchiehall Street was coming along. Once a premier Glasgow thoroughfare, now (...
Memory is rather unfashionable these days. Nobody seems able to remember a simple fact anymore, unless prompted by the phone in their pocket. ...
This article appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. Tensions are growing in Scotland over clean energy infrastructure. Last week saw...
I feel the organisers of this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival have been unfairly maligned for seeking to bring kindness into the cruel...
Rupert Everett has some harsh words for the SNP government’s approach to arts funding, though his beef is more about the what than the how much –...
The Labour Government has caused outrage in SNP circles by announcing plans to spend billions of pounds earmarked for clean energy projects on...
TV presenter Kim Woodburn has died. She was 86. Woodburn first appeared on our screens in 2003 alongside Scot, Aggie Mackenzie, in the Channel 4...
Across the UK, an estimated 14 million adults cannot swim. That’s roughly one in three of us. It’s a startling figure, especially when you...
It was Barack Obama who summed up the extent of tribal division in US politics when, in 2015, he observed that not even becoming a literal...