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Politics has always been about rich people and their money. Once it was courtiers fashioning themselves into camps to ensure they had the king’s...
More than a century ago, in 1924, Britain got its first Labour government. It was a beleaguered administration that lasted barely nine months. Yet, in...
Margarita was finishing work at her computer when the shaking began. At first, she thought it might pass. But it didn’t. “We have been very...
One thing you may have noticed about me (the people who live with me certainly have) is that I do not like change – small changes, big changes, any...
There was much to dissect in a couple of sets of annual results - from two big players on the Scottish corporate scene - in recent days. Insight can...
After experiencing North American tipping culture first hand, food and drink writer Sarah Campbell warns that the same pressures emerging in Scotland...
The NHS was founded on a simple but radical idea – that good healthcare should be available to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay – from...
In Edinburgh recently I fell into conversation with a young shop assistant. The place was quiet, with no other customers, and as she dealt with my...
Typically, less than half the population votes in council elections, but in less affluent areas it’s common for only a third of people to cast their...
With admirable ambition and resolve, Andy Burnham set out a ten-year programme to transform the UK and raise living standards. Politically, the big...
In his big speech this week, Andy Burnham said politicians need to cooperate more and spend less time arguing and more time “pulling in the same...
Thomas Weber, professor of history at Aberdeen University, is recognised as one of the world’s leading authorities on Adolf Hitler and the Nazis....
I don’t envy outgoing Creative Scotland chief executive Iain Munro at all. It’s a thankless job, really, dealing with a constantly justifying use...
As we approach the fourth of July and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence – when Americans proclaimed their right to be treated...
To cone, or not to cone: that is the question. Pardon my use of Shakespeare , but I feel the Bard would have something witty to say about the...
The lofty ground-floor windows of Glasgow’s former Centre for Contemporary Arts are masked in metal sheeting and peeling posters. Six months after...
Missed opportunities are so deeply frustrating. Missing the opportunity to achieve something truly meaningful, truly transformational, is in many ways...
It is increasingly easy to be appalled by the short-term thinking of so many leaders in the corporate world as they run around like they have ants in...
By the time you read this, the summer holidays should be under way for all school pupils across Scotland. My own son finished up last week and is...
If you’ve been wondering whether Andy Burnham is simply a Labour version of Boris Johnson, then you’re pretty much bang on the money. About to be...
Almost a year after the Deputy First Minister announced she’d be quitting politics, her Christianity and integrity continue to trigger civic...
The British Government has recently sanctioned companies involved in Israel’s E1 settlement in the West Bank – a project that, if completed, would...
Let’s talk money. It’s a taboo subject, right? Salaries, savings, spending habits - a quiet, underlying pressure that each of us carries but...
That will be that then – it’s over. After such a long and bruising campaign to eventually get over the line – and, if we’re being brutally...
The long history of investment trusts was highlighted by the Financial Conduct Authority on Friday as it published a consultation paper on proposed...
This column appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. The problem for some was that they came from China. When I wrote a piece last week...
At the end of June, I was in The Old Fruit Market in Glasgow with Martin Frizell for the inaugural Scottish podcast awards. We’d been nominated for...
Tourism in Scotland is changing. The main talking points for visitors, besides the natural beauty and the friendly folk, used to be the weather, the...
It wasn’t just the 35° heat melting my brain in London this weekend. My wife had sprung a surprise on me: front row tickets for the ABBA Voyage...
Prospect of cuts in subsidies for renewable energy developments causes alarm as oil giants lose interest in sector The SNP Government’s predictions...
In the end, it wouldn’t have mattered if Scotland had stuck three or four goals past Haiti in their opening World Cup game, we were still returning...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Scotland may be out of the World Cup but the behaviour of the Scottish fans...
In Scotland today, thousands of people are facing their final days in pain, distress, and uncertainty. Not because we lack compassion, expertise or...
As attention turns once again to who will occupy the prime ministerial hot seat, Keir Starmer is far from the only person who has been feeling the...
The term Clyde-built used to be synonymous with excellence, with yards on the river once building one third of the world’s merchant vessels. Yards...
Saturday night: I’m out and about in the centre of Glasgow and I’m feeling all my usual love and anxiety for the place, my old friend and mentor....
Foreign direct investment has been very much in focus in the last week, both at a Scottish level and for Glasgow City Region. As part of The...
I have a hanging basket outside my front door. It’s a pretty decent size, hooked onto a piece of fishing rope that’s curled around our porch. I...
Our advisers across local CABs know that for people on low incomes, food is the first thing to be cut when energy bills rise, rents increases or debts...
On a tour of what will become Edinburgh’s new National Centre for Music, the line from the old Doors’ classic The End sprung to mind … weird...
TRNSMT 2026 was off to a soggy start. For hours last Friday, the rain came down in soaking sheets. It seemed like every supermarket and pound shop...
A new direction from an ancient institution. The King has become the first monarch to disclose his tax bill. Some £12.9m for 2024/25, since you ask....
The new Scottish Nationalist MP Lara Bird took the oath of allegiance in the House of Commons this week but she didn’t seem very happy about it did...
Another quiet week in the sleepy hollow that is UK politics. Just the one prime ministerial defenestration, followed by the jailing of a former First...
One of literature’s most famous opening lines comes in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is...
Scotland is facing an unexpected future in which our independent and niche arthouse cinemas might outlive the once-reliable local chain cinema. While...
Five years ago this summer, Glasgow was in the final stages of our preparations for COP26. As host, one of our key responsibilities was finding common...
So, we’re having Manchesterism. Even by the standards of modern British politics, this week has been quite a spectacle. Andy Burnham, the prime...
The thing which jumped out immediately on looking at EY’s latest foreign direct investment survey for Scotland was a 20% fall in the number of...
As readers of The Herald will surely know, I spend a great deal of my time uncovering the problems and controversies in Scottish education, and I’m...
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