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Iain Maciver: CalMac’s astonishingly absentee board has to go

Tradition, good and bad, persists in much of public life, even today. It’s around the royal family, of course, in pretty much everything they do,...

Iain Maciver July 9 2024

For the first time in ages, I didn’t fall off my chair in shock after a pronouncement by the Scottish Greens. On this occasion, it seemed to hit...

It wouldn’t be much of a surprise if readers of The Press and Journal wondered whether it makes any difference who replaces Humza Yousaf as first...

There are some sports stars whose lustre remains undimmed long after they have vanished into the ether. It might be 30 years since the late, great...

“Freedom for Palestine. Freedom for Scotland. Freedom for everyone,” came the chant in Glasgow last weekend, from those attending a march in...

Do you know Newmill Hill Forest? As you cross the Culter Burn on North Deeside Road, over the bridge, passing Borsalino’s Italian restaurant, you...