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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...
There is much good news for Scotland’s airports in data released this week by the UK Civil Aviation Authority. The numbers, covering the first...
When Dr Samuel Johnson and his travelling companion and biographer, James Boswell, visited the small island of Ulva in October 1773, they found little...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. As anyone with even the most passing interest must be aware, Scotland’s...
As the health visitor headed off from the flat, a little girl known only as Child A banged her hands against the window, shrieking for the grown-up...
Late last year, I opened The Herald to find a columnist castigating my organisation For Women Scotland (FWS) for not caring enough about the broader...
I hope my grandad forgives me, but he was the first person who came to mind when I saw Tony Blair had crept out of his crypt to pontificate about the...
It has been a busy few weeks since the first edition of The Herald Arts supplement was launched. I knew there would be a lot of interest in the new...
One of the very hardest things any police officer has to do is to tell a loved one that their son, daughter, husband, or wife has been killed. The...
One aspect of John Swinney’s speech to the Confederation of British Industry in Scotland’s annual lunch in Edinburgh on Friday stood out. This...
This article appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, and the vast majority of us are not making a...
Earlier today, the oil giant BP removed its chairperson, Albert Manifold. The company’s board said it had “serious concerns” about “important...
A few days ago, a judge in Hampshire handed down an astonishing sentence. Three boys convicted between them of 10 counts of rape walked free from...
It's quite a mouthful for a book’s title, but I recommend A Psychiatric Study of Myths and Fairytales: Their Origin, Meaning and Usefulness by...
Until this year, every Scottish and UK election I’ve covered has been characterised by one or two dominant themes. These are issues that have cut...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Spare a thought for Keir Starmer who as Prime Minister seems determined to...
These are exciting times, if our new Deputy First Minister is to be believed. By far the clearest policy direction we have received from the new...
Ever since Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and the Jetsons blasted off in our newspapers and TV screens, jetpacks have been in our culture. Strapping on a...
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