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Neil Mackay: John Swinney has made a total ass of himself over Donald Trump

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...

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Neil Mackay

Brian Wilson: Holyrood parties must unite against the SNP's disastrous ferries regime

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...

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Brian Wilson

As Justice Secretary, I cut legal aid, but we need to fund it before it’s too late

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...

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Kenny Macaskill

Colin Lancaster: ‘Legal aid helping more people – but system needs to change’ Colin Lancaster, chief executive of the Scottish Legal Aid Board writes for The Herald's legal aid series. Legal is is helping more people, but the system needs to change, he argues.

Colin Lancaster is the chief executive of the Scottish Legal Aid Board. Here, he argues legal aid legal aid helps more people. However he...

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Colin Lancaster

Ian McConnell: Home truths infuriate in-denial Brexiters It says much about the in-denial Brexiters that a simple statement of fact has set the cat among the pigeons

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,...

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Ian Mcconnell

Carlos Alba: X marks the turning point: we must regulate social media

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...

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Carlos Alba

Rebecca McQuillan: Independence splits over Holyrood budget are an embarrassment Every public service is in a smouldering crisis. Everyone knows the push for independence is going nowhere in the foreseeable future. But instead of working together constructively to make stuff better for people, we have MSPs making the peripheral and currently irrelevant question of independence their red line in budget negotiations.

Is everything broken? It sometimes feels like it. Take one example. Edinburgh City Council is considering reductions to the education budget, with...

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Rebecca Mcquillan

Labour missed a chance to save lives – but it's not too late

Heart and circulatory diseases claim 170,000 lives annually, accounting for a quarter of all deaths in the United Kingdom. Each year, there are...

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Stuart Callison

Kevin McKenna: Flynn is the SNP's last chance. Let the bloodletting begin

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...

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Kevin Mckenna

Neil Mackay: I know what fighting for free speech means. This isn't it

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...

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Neil Mackay

Mark Williamson: SNP Government credibility in tatters amid Rosebank furore The SNP Government's credibility has been undermined further after a nationalist big gun attacked plans for carbon capture projects in Scotland

The SNP Government's credibility on energy matters has been undermined further by a nationalist big gun after ScottishPower provided a £1 billion...

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Mark Williamson

Alison Rowat: It's not just Jeremy Clarkson who is being driven to despair by Labour

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...

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Alison Rowat

Farmers are important. But Galloway National Park can't be all about them

  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...

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Vicky Allan

EIF ascends under Benedetti – meanwhile, BBC Scotland are stuck relying on London Edinburgh International Festival is the jewel in Scotland’s cultural crown... while BBC Scotland is stuck commissioning and producing through London via branch offices.

This article appears as part of the Herald Arts newsletter. Nobody should be in any doubt that the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) is the...

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Barry Didcock

How solar farms can help our declining bee population

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...

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Neil Lindsay

Struan Stevenson: Will food and drink exports be hit by new trade deal?

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...

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Struan Stevenson

Expensive but essential: Grid investments key to powering the UK economy

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...

monday 10

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Paul Sheerin

Mark Smith: The Govan revolution that could be good for all of us

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...

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Mark Smith

Roz Foyer: Trump is back, closer to home the far right is too

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...

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Roz Foyer

Zahra Hedges: Scotland can follow Iceland's example to help the next generation

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...

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Zahra Hedges

Kirsty Hughes: As the world changes, impotent Starmer is stranded on the sidelines Questions over UK's relationship with EU as Donald Trump's US election victory leaves Labour with a headache.

The questions have been piling up since President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping election victory. How will Trump impact on conflicts around the...

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Kirsty Hughes

The neat future of whisky making

The whisky industry has long been one intertwined with rich heritage and Scottish culture, so breaking into a traditional space with a...

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Stephen Hamilton

For the first time, the elimination of a cancer is within our reach

Every year, over 350,000 women die from cervical cancer and another 660,000 are diagnosed. As a consequence, children are orphaned, families...

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Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Kevin McKenna: Why would anyone not want to live in Cumnock? 'It’s about having a vision. The town itself is very vibrant'

The greatest ever match report about the brutal world of Ayrshire Junior football was written 30 years by Graham Spiers, then Scotland’s...

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Kevin Mckenna

Ian McConnell: Huge developments for Scottish airports

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...

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Ian Mcconnell

Condemnation of class could be the last acceptable prejudice in Scotland ‘DON’T be a snob!”. Remarkably, this was the formal advice given by the University of Edinburgh to its students this week

‘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...

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Andrew Tickell

To all Scotland's 'liberals', no-one gives a Friar Tuck if you flounce away from X To all Scotland's 'liberals', no-one gives a Friar Tuck if you flounce away from X

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...

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Kevin Mckenna

My Midlife Diary: I turn 47 this weekend - when will I feel like an adult?

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...

17.11.2024 10

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Susan Swarbrick

Scottish Government needs to do more on women’s health, says Engender Health inequalities faced by women and girls in Scotland are deeply entrenched within the systems that are meant to care for us, writes Engender.

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...

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Herald Scotland

Exclusive By Catherine Murphy

Edinburgh Uni must stop appalling snobbery from Saltburn-esque toff students

EDINBURGH University — in common with most Russell Group institutions — prides itself on its efforts to help underprivileged young people gain...

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Dani Garavelli

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