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How do you measure 365 days? I used to think the best way to measure the passage of time was my princess desk calendar. It was a pile of pink...
Let's be honest. Some of the hype on AI can be baffling. One moment it's going to change our lives, the next kill us all, and then...
Last year Scotland’s Citizens Advice network supported almost 200,000 people and secured nearly £170 million for those facing the greatest...
Across the political spectrum, the overwhelming reaction to this week’s Gherkin Budget was “meh”, and at a time dominated by AI-driven doom and...
There is a fundamental deceit at the core of John Healey’s Budget. Or perhaps, rather, a self-deceit. Either way, it is an endeavour to calm or gull...
Actor of the moment James Nelson-Joyce has been applauding the portrayal of his home town of Liverpool in This City Is Ours. “Of course it shows...
In 2023, researchers from the University of Stirling revealed that the introduction of Scotland’s brave new curriculum had led to a narrowing of...
On the 40th anniversary of the first episode of Taggart, The Herald got the cast and crew together for pictures and there was only really one choice...
The following article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Journalists aren’t supposed to ‘look away’. We’re meant to...
This is a Budget for the British worker, proclaimed Chancellor John Healey as he stood in the House of Commons to deliver his first economic...
Schools across Scotland have, for many years, faced persistent challenges in recruiting teachers in a range of subject areas. Our recent School...
Some numbers on the performance of the Scottish hotel sector since 2019 really grabbed the attention. They came last week from property agent Savills,...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. “I simply want Scotland to have a choice when the time is right. So, I hope that...
In an age of cynicism the cynic is king and boy are we in an age of cynicism. This helps explain why few of us are prepared to cut our politicians any...
Halloween weekend brings with it the usual tales of ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night. But as my Herald colleagues highlighted last...
Has the decline in our society reached a stage where pubs are applying to become a youth service? I suppose they are warm and have places to sit, but...
Everyone, run! The bots are on the attack! I’m not trying out some new Halloween gimmick here - this is very much real. Bot farms are now besieging...
As much is written about the outreach of Scotland’s venues, arts spaces, and industry, the elephant in the room remains social media's massive...
It sounds paradoxical - indeed it is paradoxical - but scarcity is ubiquitous today. Nothing is everywhere. At my local supermarket yesterday, shelves...
Since they succeeded in removing Alex Salmond from the conversation, the SNP’s independence strategy has been stunning in its simplicity. It’s...
Modern property factoring in Scotland was born out of a practical problem. Blocks of flats needed maintained, repairs needed instructed, bills needed...
A picture is worth a thousand words – according to the late American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane, it is anyway. But a graph can be priceless...
The arithmetic looked daunting for the board of a £1.1 billion Scottish company as it attempted to see off a move by a US hedge fund to take control....
This article appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. Roads in Saltcoats turned into rivers. A 60-year-old man dead, tragically hit by a...
Brexit showed what happens when voters back a leap in the dark. Unionists should stop refusing a second independence referendum and make the case for...
Long before doom-scrolling became an internet contagion, the primary school hymns of a Catholic childhood were preparing me for a lifetime on the edge...
I was a ghoulish child at times. Obsessed with Hammer Horror movies, my bedroom was filled with glow-in-the-dark models of Dracula and Frankenstein;...
Brexit was stressful, wasn’t it? Not in a losing your job or your home sort of a way, but in the sense that we woke up on June 24, 2016, and learned...
We might be heading towards a winter of unpredictable weather, but one thing we know is that those who have argued there are snowflakes everywhere are...
There’s that old Billy Connolly quip which suggests that even having the desire to become a politician should bar you from ever being one. Those of...
SCOTLAND is home to more than 900 islands with around 101 permanently inhabited, with 89 of these being classed as offshore. While this may seem a...
Before I go to see Mr James Pollock, I read all the paperwork, the applications, the technical data, the planning documents, what the company says,...
The UK Government’s £298 billion defence spending drive must benefit Scottish workers and businesses, writes Defence Secretary Wes Streeting. At no...
There are many words you could use to describe the current system of business rates in Scotland (not all are printable in a respectable newspaper),...
There has been plenty going on in Scotland’s hotels sector in the last week. The biggest news came somewhat out of the blue – the Crerar hotels...
Hardly anyone has heard of the Borders village where I live, and yet it attracts visitors from all corners of the globe. The reason is not our...
Don't know much about history, biology, geology, trigonometry, the science book, algebra - let alone what a slide-rule (or any so-called rule) is...
When the Chancellor steps up to the Despatch Box on Wednesday, millions of people around the country will be listening for one thing: how does this...
If anyone elsewhere in Scotland doubts a thriving Edinburgh is good for the rest of the country then a study presented to city councillors this week...
The big men who dominated political talk in my 1970s childhood home were all hewn from the same seam. They were born and raised in working-class...
When Batgirl came to town, in 2021, there was lots of talk about money and jobs and profile for Glasgow, but some local businesses said shutting down...
The following article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. It’s striking how little folk are talking about the death of BBC...
I am aware, as I construct this column in my head, that I risk portraying myself as exceptionally cynical, or at the very least advocating an...
Business (non-domestic) rates originated as a 16th century tax. Whilst business rates have changed a little over the intervening centuries, the basic...
A “significant risk” of shareholders of a £1 billion Scottish company “sleepwalking” into a change they “did not seek or desire”. That is...
A video came across my feed the other day that nearly made me spit out my scrambled eggs. It was a rapid splice of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. If you’re going to run a proper exam system, a lot depends on trust, whether in...
The annual Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award is upon us again, commencing early next month. The album shortlist is out, and the star-studded...
Last week, The Ivy opened its doors for what has since been described as one of the biggest restaurant launches Glasgow has seen in years. Fire...
Let me ask a simple question – would you like to see a 10% increase in the hospitality sector yielding over 22,000 new jobs and adding an estimated...
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