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The graduate jobs market is tough at a time when we are seeing the rise of artificial intelligence. Business Editor Ian McConnell analyses some more...
History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up. Last Thursday, at the Scottish Parliament elections, the history of the unionist...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. So… another year, another exam scandal? The 2026 examination period isn’t even...
If you, like me, are a fan of superhero films, this will be a familiar scene: the false dilemma. Our hero finds themselves face to face with the...
The Michael Jackson biopic Michael has quickly become one of the highest-grossing biographical films of all time, spearheaded by the singer's...
Herald columnist Neil Mackay has predicted the United Kingdom will break up under pressure from a united front of nationalist parties in Scotland,...
I confess my bias from the get-go: I hate technology. Not all technology, I hasten to add. I don’t hate heart machines and radios, or satnavs and...
As the siege of Sir Keir Starmer has proceeded, the failures of Labour’s Scottish leadership have escaped scrutiny. When do the members start to...
The SNP’s emphatic win has reopened the independence debate, but those insisting that manifestos and vote shares settle the question might want to...
So why am I still writing about Brexit? Business Editor Ian McConnell offers his views on why this topic is so crucial as we look forward. Before...
This article appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. Anja Baak, who runs wild-venison-curing business Great Glen Charcuterie, observes...
The First Minister was wrong to state that he’ll exclude Reform UK from his cross-party discussions about Scotland’s political priorities, argues...
The Labour/Tory duopoly is collapsing and with it the political system. The future is a battle of nationalisms between Reform, SNP, Sinn Fein and...
Certain phrases should be banned from politics. Rising to the top of the list this week is “efficiency savings”. Making efficiency savings and...
As Scotland embraces its own digital revolution, are we accidentally deskilling our doctors? Across the NHS, a new authority is emerging: the...
This article appears as part of the Money HQ with Ben Stark newsletter. The Bank of England (BoE) held the base rate at 3.75% on Thursday, April 30....
Airlines have a responsibility to prevent drunk passengers flying but they do need a helping hand from airport bar staff, argues Herald columnist Alan...
A group of lawyers which campaigns on free speech has sent an email to senior figures at Edinburgh University this week raising concerns about the...
This year marks the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Anniversaries can often...
Amid the Scottish Parliament election campaigning last week, a couple of positive and non-contentious stories stood out on the business and economic...
It’s all change at Holyrood – sort of. First of all, the lack of overnight count - with the usual scenes of candidates and election agents...
Among other surprising things, President Trump has given new prominence to the normally quiet subject of overseas territories. Only four months ago -...
This week was a week of firsts, and also a week of lasts. My first day officially back at work came without much fanfare. No grand return, no...
When Tom Nairn declared that “Scotland will never be free until the last minister is strangled with the last copy of The Sunday Post,” he captured...
There’s a venerable hotel in a prime tourist location in Italy whose historic guest list includes Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens and Puccini. Who...
Labour’s Holyrood collapse exposed a deeper failure to reconnect with Scotland’s working-class communities, leaving political outsiders to exploit...
"I don’t know where to start.." A phrase our advisers hear all too often as people open up during a first...
First Minister John Swinney says Edinburgh Council must take the lead on its transport projects, but even before the election the SNP is already...
It would be churlish to open with anything other than warm congratulations to John Swinney, returned as First Minister with a victory earned in his...
I was saying the other day that there are several streets that lay bare the crisis in Glasgow and that one of them is Carlton Place, the Georgian...
Some absurd choreography now clings to these big election counts. At the Emirates Arena in Glasgow among the muffled cheers bringing news of an...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. There’s something deeply absurd and offensive about the way democracy in...
The next Scottish government, which now looks almost certain to be another SNP administration with or without a power-sharing agreement, can be sure...
The sun is shining, the bins are smoking, the streets are starting to sink and burst water mains are sending jets of water skyward like a Yellowstone...
As you read this, the direction of travel for Scotland has been set. Ballot counting following yesterday’s Scottish Parliament elections will start...
It was great to hear the update from the owner of the major Scottish yard as a shipbuilding 'step forward' was celebrated, writes Business...
As culture in the West faces decline in line with its economies, arts writer Derek McArthur considers why the 21st century will artistically and...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. At the time of writing this article, voting has begun for the 2026 Holyrood...
It was a night at the Tron Theatre for me on Friday, watching the National Theatre of Scotland’s Stand and Deliver, the story of the 1981 Lee Jeans...
In 2022, artificial intelligence reached a milestone that had eluded it for decades – it defeated eight world champions at a key aspect of the card...
I almost burned down my mother-in-law’s house when I learned I was about to become a dad for the first time. And she was a brand new mother-in-law,...
Any plan to implement the manifesto promises for Scotland’s NHS must also be accompanied by a plan for Scotland’s universities. Across all parts...
The Golders Green incident exposed raw hypocrisy on policing, argues Herald columnist Calum Steele As someone who is not averse to the periodic...
As the Holyrood election campaign nears its end, some candidates may already be thinking about a summer break. From Scotland’s airports, they can...
Why did the rules allow a major Scottish company's entire board to be ousted? Business Editor Ian McConnell weighs the major issues raised by the...
This article appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. Farming is what feeds us – but so many of us rarely think of what farmers do. Most...
At 22, my vote in this Scottish election is barely my second. This June, I’ll graduate into what feels like a barren job market and an unsteady...
Where once there were adverts for real physical books, today there’s only adverts for celebrity audiobooks. This reveals something very troubling,...
SNP Government claims that Scotland will become a renewables powerhouse undermined as Iran war fallout fuels interest in North Sea oil firms An energy...
A howl of righteous indignation from the right-wing commentariat rose to defend Malcolm Offord last week after he’d crowed about the extent of his...
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