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As a born and bred Weegie exiled in the apparently cold east, I afforded myself a chuckle at my fellow columnist Kevin McKenna’s interview with...
If you want to observe what a dusk-till-dawn curfew looks like, visit Lennoxtown towards the end of next month. For five days, when darkness falls,...
One can only imagine the atmosphere in Downing Street as loyal advisers gazed intently at the screen, witnessing the scene as their boss got into a...
You’ve got to feel sorry for these people really, the poor dears. First, they had to pack away all their Father Ted DVDs, never again to hear the...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. I’m not sure that the BBC could manage to offend and irritate Scots more...
MPs attending Parliament today to vote on the new assisted dying Bill could be tempted to think nothing has changed since they voted on the same issue...
The date was set. The sparkling diamond ring had been picked. Gavin Cushny and Susan Brady of New York and New Jersey were to be married on October...
Having written extensively on the Scottish Event Campus over the years, there has never been any doubt about the merits of its ambitions for another...
Mairi McAllan is now Scotland’s Education Secretary, but rewind just over a decade and she had just completed her Law degree, practicing as a...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. It has been a few years, but there’s nothing quite like PISA Day to remind you of...
Let's talk about the £948.01 pine box. What’s so special about this pine box? Perhaps it comes with some rare Pokémon card nestled inside....
As Scots, self-deprecation is our default factory setting. The reaction to the bid for UNESCO recognition of the morning roll was, in that sense,...
Scotland’s energy industry is at a crucial juncture and a decision due to be made soon could have wide-ranging repercussions for the sector and the...
I suppose I should be grateful to William and Kate Windsor. Not for any grovelling reason. I’m certainly no monarchist. But for knocking the last...
Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken’s comments as a new body launched with the remit of “shaping the city’s voice to the world” certainly...
John Swinney’s speech launching his new Programme for Government was a curious thing to watch. The FM is not a naturally flamboyant speaker or even...
This column appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. “We need education. We need more firebreaks,” said Sandy McCook, chair of Nethy...
What feels like aeons ago now, Holyrood had a dream. It was a Scotland where life was no longer organised around having a car. We would all walk and...
SNP Government economic plans based on flimsy claims about number of green jobs neglect North Sea oil industry potential John Swinney has struck a...
It’s the 1950s obedient housewife vibe that really shocks when you see the picture. It demands a double-take. There she is, Nicola Sturgeon, playing...
The celebration of Holy Mass on Sunday morning featured a much-loved tract from Matthew’s Gospel. Before this bit though, Jesus lays down the law...
New figures reveal that, in the first half of this year, Britain wasted nearly £1 billion paying wind farms, 99 per cent of them in Scotland, to...
The First Minister and I agree on this: Scotland's public finances are under pressure. But acknowledging a difficult financial position is one...
Two set-piece moments in the Scottish Parliament calendar matter most to business: the Scottish Budget and the First Minister’s Programme for...
The Scottish National Investment Bank was in the spotlight again last week. It found itself in sharp focus following the collapse of Scottish...
It was a sad day, seeing a great beast diminished, demolished, taken apart. HMS Ark Royal was being decommissioned on Loch Long before being taken to...
Recent reports have suggested a surge in whale and dolphin sightings around the coast, which is being attributed mainly to the weather, which is...
When you behold once more the medieval Gothic splendour of Glasgow Cathedral, an uncomfortable truth becomes apparent. We Glaswegians fondly portray...
I have just returned from Malawi, where I saw first-hand how SCIAF is supporting families and communities facing enormous challenges. Meeting people...
How much of our lives do we spend waiting? Waiting on a bus, a phone call, our turn at the front of the coffee queue. Counting down hours, minutes,...
Soap opera symbolism is always clunky. When scriptwriters want to add some subtext, they don’t tend to follow the Tennessee Williams’s formula for...
Eight years ago, Citizens Advice Scotland set up a special service to support people claiming Universal Credit (UC) for the first time. The Help to...
In 1956, an aspiring young writer working as a ticket assistant for an airline was given a remarkable Christmas present by her friends. It was a...
Having laid the groundwork for their own defenestration as Scotland’s dominant political force, it’s hardly surprising that Labour’s...
In political discourse, some topics receive obsessive, endless attention. Our health service, our schools. Neither, since you ask, in a notably robust...
We know how the story starts: on a bright cold day in April as the clocks are striking 13. We know how the story ends: in the basement of the ministry...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Here's the publicly curated image: Nigel Farage, man of the people,...
We are witnessing a slow, steady cultural shift in Scotland, one that has been quietly underway for years. The traditional, self-reliant values that...
It seemed a highly unusual step for an established publishing house in Edinburgh recently to open a submissions window for romantic fiction with a...
It is true, I am sure, that actions speak louder than words. Nonetheless, that does not render words unimportant. Indeed, politicians are at least...
A Scottish company founded by Scotland rugby star Bill Gammell, which floated on the UK stock market nearly four decades ago, is this week at the...
Scotland's higher education sector stands at a pivotal moment. In an exclusive article for The Herald, The University of Edinburgh Principal and...
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...
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