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In an age when the cult of youth has never mattered more or swept more away, I remain an unrepentant and unfashionable believer in the wisdom of...
First, the ferry sad news. With a blast on the horn, the MV Hebridean Isles sailed out of Stornoway for the last time, bound for the Clyde and a...
As Justice Secretary for seven and a half years and a legal aid lawyer for 20 years before that, the plight of legal aid grieves me. Numbers...
Colin Lancaster is the chief executive of the Scottish Legal Aid Board. Here, he argues legal aid legal aid helps more people. However he...
It says much about the in-denial Brexiters that a simple statement of fact from the Bank of England Governor, made in the most cautious of ways,...
I can clearly remember reading about the death of Elvis Presley as I walked across Glasgow's Arran Drive, at the foot of Mosspark Avenue. It was on...
Is everything broken? It sometimes feels like it. Take one example. Edinburgh City Council is considering reductions to the education budget, with...
Heart and circulatory diseases claim 170,000 lives annually, accounting for a quarter of all deaths in the United Kingdom. Each year, there are...
Being an affable sort of chiel who never bears grudges, I was happy to impart some advice to Stephen Flynn towards the end of last year when we...
A belief still clings stubbornly to the calloused underbelly of debate that social media is somehow unrelated to the real world and shouldn’t be...
The SNP Government's credibility on energy matters has been undermined further by a nationalist big gun after ScottishPower provided a £1 billion...
From all corners of the kingdom they came, determined to have their say about inheritance tax. A sea of waxed jackets and jeans as far as the eye...
This article appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. You would think from the news coverage that the only people who have a strong...
This article appears as part of the Herald Arts newsletter. Nobody should be in any doubt that the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) is the...
The UK’s population of honeybees has fallen by 50% over the past two decades. An influx of pesticides, climate change, intensive farming and loss...
It has taken twenty years of tortuous negotiations, but now it seems likely that the EU will finally ink a comprehensive trade deal with the...
It may have caught your attention that there has been a recent stream of announcements in relation to new subsea cable projects around the coast of...
If you want me, I’ll be in Magpie’s Nest, and if you ask nicely I’ll take you across the road to the Pearce Institute for a plate of chips as...
We’ve had our fair share of comebacks recently. Oasis are getting the band back together. Primal Scream are back for a new album. Labour have...
From a young age we learn there are certain things that are good for us, and some things that are harmful to our health. Take smoking and ask any 9...
The questions have been piling up since President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping election victory. How will Trump impact on conflicts around the...
The whisky industry has long been one intertwined with rich heritage and Scottish culture, so breaking into a traditional space with a...
Every year, over 350,000 women die from cervical cancer and another 660,000 are diagnosed. As a consequence, children are orphaned, families...
The greatest ever match report about the brutal world of Ayrshire Junior football was written 30 years by Graham Spiers, then Scotland’s...
It has been a big week for Scottish airports. Last Monday, Prestwick Airport revealed that it had made a fifth consecutive annual profit. This is...
‘DON’T be a snob!” Remarkably, this was the formal advice given by the University of Edinburgh to its students this week, after conceding that...
Not long ago, I conducted a small survey among members of my family and some of my drinking colleagues. They only had to answer one question: are...
I have a birthday this weekend. It isn’t one that, in the grand scheme of things, is particularly noteworthy. Not like reaching the giddy heights...
Health inequalities faced by women and girls in Scotland are deeply entrenched within the systems that are meant to care for us. When it comes...
EDINBURGH University — in common with most Russell Group institutions — prides itself on its efforts to help underprivileged young people gain...