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With less than a week left until Holyrood election day, political parties are on the campaign trail the length and breadth of Scotland. The...
It’s no reflection on the individuals, but with only five days to go before this dreary Scottish Parliament election campaign is over, how many...
We’re now in the last-gasp days of the election campaign so the parties are mainly telling us to vote for them to stop something terrible. The SNP...
And so, humming Hail to the Chief, King Charles departs Trump town with a sense of constrained regal pride, clutching a decidedly valuable deal to cut...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. You'd be hard pushed to claim this Scottish election has been anything...
Being a powerful person shaping Scotland’s art scene is not the same as being good for the art scene. Take Pauline Barclay, for example. The...
Anyone in their mid thirties or younger has never known good times, at least economically speaking. If you were born in 1990, you became a working,...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Let me be clear: Green MSPs haven’t impressed me any more than those from the...
Seven Holyrood elections have been held in the devolved era and this one seems to have been the least engaging of them all. On social media and among...
I saw an advert for the grandly-named ‘prediction market platform’ Kalshi recently which summed up where we are as a civilisation in 2026. ...
The Palestinian protester spotted me near the Signet library on Edinburgh’s Parliament Square. Some old and familiar insults tumbled forth. “When...
I’ve been through every argument that the nuclear industry makes promoting new nuclear power stations – but scratch the surface and they just melt...
Malcolm Offord set the cat among the pigeons with his declaration during Scotland’s televised election debate that he owns “six houses, five cars...
The key election battlegrounds used to be health, education and policing – but this time around, the last of those three has been very much the poor...
Should the state-owned Scottish shipyard have been ruled out of this lucrative contract to replace a vessel it built in 1989? Business Editor Ian...
This column appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter The big oil and gas story this week is that fossil fuel giant BP has recorded a more...
During the Holyrood election campaign, the Scottish Greens have been criticised for seeking to ban greyhound racing, horse-racing and Donald Trump’s...
The King may have been dispatched to heal the UK-US relationship, but as the Falklands shows, Donald Trump will use anything to wound Britain if he...
The financial arms race in men’s professional golf is frequently portrayed as a battle between competing leagues, billionaire backers and superstar...
Take a bow Christine Jardine. The Lib Dem MP for Edinburgh West does a nice line in dry humour and deployed it deftly on BBC Scotland during an angry...
The manifestos are out. The glossy pages of the political parties’ prospectuses have been produced and are no doubt being pored over by the public....
In the run up to this election how often have you heard someone say, “I’m fed up with politics”, “What’s the point? I don’t trust any of...
The latest polling for the election next week is interesting. Survation’s figures for the constituency vote are SNP 35%, Reform and Labour both 20,...
With just 10 days until we go to the polls, we’re now firmly at the business end of this election campaign. I’m not saying there won’t be any...
It was inevitable more and more people would realise they had been sold a pup by the Brexiters, writes Business Editor Ian McConnell. And, as we...
When the Scottish men’s international football side last qualified for a World Cup there was no doubt in my mind: I had to be there. As I watched...
Tourist hotspots are now introducing blanket bans on motorhomes and campervans amid soaring popularity. Many users only have themselves to blame for...
With just two weeks to go until Scotland heads to the polls, the campaigns are in full swing – manifestos have been launched, party leaders have...
Like the sound of the first cuckoo, or Met office forecasts of sunshine and showers, the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree announces the arrival...
Nine per cent of households in Scotland have no access to the internet. Whether through poverty, geography or lack of skills, this makes...
Two historic Edinburgh city centre buildings a short walk apart share three things in common. One is both are the sites of highly controversial...
Geraldine at Number 12 tells us very politely that she doesn’t know much about politics and so can’t really say how she’ll be voting on May 7 at...
Take a look. Take a look at the excavators and the dump trucks, and the piles of bricks and sand, and the posters showing us what it might look like...
Voters, I calculate, are driven by a range of motivations. Chiefly, duty, habit and effect. Each is demonstrably weakened in this age of anxiety. The...
Unionists have reacted with outrage to John Swinney saying he’ll cooperate with Sinn Fein to boost Scottish independence. Why is anyone surprised,...
Each day close to 200,000 letters are plopped through door slots and slammed into the post-boxes of households across the UK, demanding the payment of...
As I type, I feel like what I am about to write has become a cliche, overused election after election by commentator after commentator. However,...
Brexit remains a very hot topic indeed in spite of the desperate efforts by those who visited the catastrophe upon us . It is hardly surprising to see...
There is an election campaign going on just now, although you could just about be forgiven for having missing it. It may just be a result of the...
Following the revelation that Geese and other popular rising acts are using a type of marketing involving networks of fake accounts, arts writer Derek...
In the post-war chronicles of those who’ve occupied 10 Downing Street, all human failings – and a few vices – have been evident in their...
I had the pleasure of spending time again with Professor Mary Beard last week, enjoying one of those slow, intelligent conversations which seem so...
Scotland's political parties have now published their manifestos. Here Herald columnist Calum Steele takes a tour through their contents They are...
The declaration last week from US hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein’s Saba Capital Management that the board of Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust...
This column appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. Another month, another multi-billion pound giant data centre announcement, this one...
WITH three weeks to go until polling day, attention is starting to turn to what will happen after Scots’ votes are counted. There is an outside...
‘You’re getting old,’ a well-meaning friend concludes after sitting through another heated rant about one of my ultimate restaurant pet hates....
Ms Mackay, in turn, endorsed the credentials of Mr Greer, (aka: the Bearsden Bolshevist), to be Finance Secretary. She said Mr Greer would make “a...
Our Writer at Large Neil Mackay explains how after a life chasing extreme experiences and emotions, he has learned that it is the simplest things that...
SNP manifesto hails strength of Scotland's green economy after hopes for windfarm jobs boom fade John Swinney has tried to demonstrate his...
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