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A second Smiths-loving Prime Minister has just hit government. At least Andy Burnham’s love of the legendary Manchester group is looking to be a...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Back in 2024, Scotland’s exam board was embroiled in a huge controversy over the...
Do you want the bad news or the bad news? First, the nights are fair drawing in. Second, Nicola Sturgeon will soon be in your living room. Not on the...
Like many other right-minded Scots, I was delighted to learn that the SNP is to discuss its future governance following the Peter Murrell embezzlement...
When I was a kid, I loved the comic 2000 AD. I remember buying the first edition, which I still have and which is apparently worth a fortune, in 1977....
The SNP manifesto didn’t say much on public service reform. “We will reduce the number of public bodies, better integrating services and reducing...
Summer holidays are great even when you just got the top job and must still work. Most critics and troublemakers are away. The burdens of the...
Things look certain to remain tough on the economic front – as has been the case throughout the UK for so long now – and this difficult backdrop...
This column appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. Back on a glorious May day, I visited a patch of woodland, on the outskirts of...
The victims of politics were once merely confined to the likes of you and I – ordinary voters who had their lives maimed and afflicted by the...
It’s a good idea in any workplace to keep folk on side. Generally speaking, slanging matches on the office floor are not a great foundation on which...
If artificial intelligence can write reports, analyse spreadsheets, draft emails, answer customer queries and increasingly perform professional tasks...
There were several factors in the SNP’s 2007 Holyrood power-grab. Not the least of these was the complacency, turning eventually to entitlement,...
Being called a dolly isn’t usually something one wishes to be called in Scotland. To be hard of thinking. To be logically deficient. To be immune...
Scottish Government-funded childcare is a life-changing resource for many parents who might struggle to afford the amount of care that allows them to...
It was nearly 20 years ago when the then first minister Alex Salmond announced that the A9 would be fully dualled between Inverness and Perth. Three...
It is hard to believe another summer has been and is now all but gone. However much we may wish to deny it, there can be no doubt that the schools are...
The Scottish National Investment Bank has been firmly in the spotlight over the past fortnight. Last Monday, SNIB published its latest annual report...
Best to be honest: the more I see of Andy Burnham, the more I like him. He was in Ukraine the other day, with the troops, and someone handed him a...
Recent reports and recommendations on implementing the Welsh curriculum should be required reading for Scottish policymakers, writes Education...
When I first put my hand inside the burrow, all I feel is moss. I’m on the side of Hallival, Rum’s second tallest mountain, with staff from the...
Intimations of autumn are all around. Schools are back, leaves are falling, temperatures are dropping, and Celtic have already said adios to the...
Put down the placards, close the petitions, bring out the bunting: the Battle of Roseburn is won. The only part of the pipe dream to expand the...
The other Saturday I came out of an evening show at the Assembly Rooms on the Mound. It was not long after eight in the evening, the sky was overcast...
It was the dog that didn’t bark during the Holyrood election campaign: the idea of radical reform in Scotland’s public services, our NHS, our...
It is a constant disappointment to my parents that, despite the fact I spent four years studying law and earned the right to put LLB Hons (First...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Most of the Yes movement has long dismissed claims that the SNP isn’t...
“Yes,” said Stephen Flynn, Scotland’s Economy Secretary, to the question of whether Scotland will be independent by 2034, asked by the BBC’s...
Scottish Labour leadership candidate Michael Marra says the party will rediscover its ‘soul’ if he wins against rival Joe Fagan. The ballot opens...
Politics is politics and petty point-scoring is lamentably inevitable in the Scottish goldfish bowl. The political landscape is littered with so many...
Super producer Dr Dre has thrown his weight behind the use of AI in music, and predictably, the backlash is furious. In an interview with Interscope...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. There is never a shortage of outrage and controversy – confected or otherwise –...
Wetherspoons has taken a stand against a long-time scourge of pub-goers, banning customers from taking calls on speakerphone or playing music and...
On the 20th of May this year, less than a fortnight after the SNP had won yet another Holyrood election, Màiri McAllan became the Cabinet Secretary...
I fully agree with the central concerns raised in Cameron Wyllie's blog. The scale and frequency of violence and unacceptable behaviour in...
A government is never stronger than after it has been elected, or re-elected. A statement which has become something of a cliché in politics, but...
Scottish applicants sit at the bottom of the UK 'league table' for successful Oxbridge applications, a figure that Robert Gordon's Head...
It's difficult, if not impossible, to feel anything other than revulsion, and frankly hate, towards American social media giants. The equivalence...
Well done, Edinburgh. Unaccustomed as this Glaswegian is to tipping her hat to the capital, I must hand it to you. I’ve had a week of struggling...
The Greens are surely due the nation's gratitude for backing a campaign to elevate the Scottish Morning Roll to UNESCO world heritage status....
“The beatings will continue until morale improves” is one of those sardonic phrases that you’d once find on posters adorning the walls of almost...
They might not have been the most surprising survey findings in the world but they were certainly striking. And they painted a very clear picture of...
This column appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. Though once upon a time lynx roamed this land, no mammalian apex predator, apart from...
I’ve been doing a bit of research into the five emotional stages of the Edinburgh Festivals experience. Denial, euphoria, rehab, etc. It transpires...
There’s a process by which some public bodies, established with good intentions, turn rogue over time. It exploits the trust and goodwill of the...
It didn’t take me long as a young journalist to realise all was not well with my profession. I became a reporter long ago, in 1991. Margaret...
Rosebank oil field firm generates $1 billion cash from North Sea operations in six months as it bids to acquire BP operations in the area A North Sea...
It might be potholes shredding your tyres. It might be waiting lists. It might be slow police response times, but nearly all of us, in our own ways,...
This article appears as part of the Money HQ with Ben Stark newsletter. Japan, one of the world's largest economies, is struggling with a...
One of the brilliant things about living in Scotland is that you’re never all that far from the sea. Those of us who feel the sea’s call – and...
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