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A little piece of Scottish journalistic history takes place this Thursday on the BBC Scotland channel. At 10pm, The Nine will sail off into the...
Just as Christmas seems to start earlier every year, so does the great rush to get away. With the Commons in recess from December 19 and the...
This year, as every Christmas since the 1950s, the North American Aerospace Defence Command will be tracking Santa as he goes about his one-day-a-year...
As someone who earns a sizeable crust from expressing his opinions, Piers Morgan is usually a stranger to the fine Scottish art of swithering. Indeed,...
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...
Almost a week on from the US elections and the chin-stroking among the commentariat continues, not least in those heartlands of pondering, the Sunday...
From employers and home buyers to pensioners and the parents of private school pupils, the queue of those complaining about Rachel Reeves’s Budget...
Gone are the days when new employees would be sent for a tin of tartan paint, a long weight, or other jokey requests. In certain trades, however,...
Rachel Reeves makes history today when she delivers her first Budget. After eight centuries of male Chancellors of the Exchequer, the purse strings...
Appearing on the new BBC Radio 4 series Surviving Politics with Michael Gove, Humza Yousaf revealed that his host had become a verb among Scottish...
Some news can silence the usual din from party politics and unite society as one. The revelation that Sir Chris Hoy’s cancer is terminal was one...
At age 78 it is late in the day for Donald Trump to be considering a career change, but let no one doubt the man’s willingness to serve his...
Parliaments have their own ways of marking the death of a member. Protocols are observed, some dating to an earlier age, others less so. As it is for...
Outbreaks are occurring across the country, from Liverpool and Birmingham to Glasgow and London. The condition began in the opinion columns of The...
Downing Street must have been looking forward to the Conservatives gathering in Birmingham. Labour’s conference week was dominated by rows over...
With time to kill before Keir Starmer’s first speech to conference as Prime Minister, I had a browse through some other landmark addresses. As you...
Was it the photo of the Siberian kitten that gave it away? Or the conference eve announcement that the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and...
As violence once more threatens the US presidential election, the Russian-Ukraine war reaches a dangerous crossroads, and thousands flee deadly...
Ten years since the independence referendum? Seems like ten minutes. It is certainly too soon to tell the whole story of those heady days. ...
His name was Alan Kurdi and he was just two years old. In September 2015, Alan, his parents and five-year-old brother left their home in Turkey and...
Westminster has been up and running for a week, and the first prime minister’s questions have been and gone. But nothing says the holidays are over...
You don’t need the Met Office’s State Of The UK Climate 2023 report to tell you that this has been a washout summer. Though it felt like the...
TWO things you can say for certain about Tony Blair’s new book, out this week. One, there will be no Harry Potter-style midnight queues at bookshops...
It is not every week that Michael O’Leary acquires a legion of fans for something he has said, but fair play to the Ryanair CEO. His call to curb...
Between sounding the alarm about tough times ahead, mending relations with Europe and battling claims of cronyism, Sir Keir Starmer has had another...
And just like that we were back in 2009, with a Labour government in power, Oasis set to go off on tour, and the sun shining (except for viewers in...
The forecast for London on Tuesday promises late summer sunshine and a gentle breeze. Perfect weather to sit in the Downing Street rose garden and...
Raspberry berets off to the fashion industry for once again trying to sell customers another idea that costs a fortune and looks daft on all but a...
It was all about the speech. Kamala Harris’s address to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was a now-or-never moment that would either...
It has been a quiet festival season for Scottish politicians. Time was when you could barely swing a canvas tote bag in Edinburgh without hitting some...
In the run-up to its landslide victory in 1997 one of the strengths of New Labour was its ability to keep secrets. Though plans were made for the...
Regular travellers to Ayr will know them. The bridge folk. They wave Saltires at the traffic, and every now and then a driver gives them a honk....
Of all the insults hurled at Donald Trump, few have pierced that famously rhino hide of his. You can count on the fingers of one unnaturally small...
Showing tonight on Sky Documentaries is Elizabeth Taylor: the Lost Tapes. Built around recordings made by the double Oscar-winner in 1964, filmmaker...
If you are Christmas shopping this weekend (what do you mean you haven’t started?), be sure to get your paws on Fefe, a new perfume for dogs by...
After locking the doors and windows and drawing the curtains they ran upstairs to hide. It wasn’t safe on the ground floor. They had seen the videos...
To everything in politics there is a season. Or at least there used to be. At this point in the summer news cycle, with Westminster now joining...
In our street it is a Friday. Round the corner it is a Saturday. It has even been known to take place on Sundays at Christmas and New Year. Fancy. ...
I checked the Guide Dogs “sponsor a puppy” calendar on the fridge. Sure enough, there it was. In the box for July 4, under a picture of a young...
As every Strictly fan knows, timing is everything. With the 22nd series of the ratings smash on the way in the autumn, it probably seemed the right...
Anyone who has read Hillbilly Elegy, the Appalachian rags to Silicon Valley riches memoir of JD Vance, would have come to the same conclusion: if this...
Early this morning, before the birds and breakfast show presenters are up, a group of hardy individuals clad in red, black and gold finery will search...
Week two of the new Labour government begins and Sir Keir Starmer is finding foreign affairs taking up the lion’s share of his attention. His...
Respect to Tony Blair for waiting so long before he jumped in the back seat and started giving directions to the new Prime Minister. It must have been...
“What are you going to do about this?” “Whose fault was it?” "Are you standing or not?! “Who used the last of the Touche Eclat eye bag...
At lunchtime yesterday a very British revolution took place. Saltires, Union flags, and Welsh Dragons fluttered as a cheering crowd welcomed a new...
As one of the dwindling band of Tories fortunate enough to keep his seat, it was mere minutes into his acceptance speech before Rishi Sunak took...
Whatever the comings and goings on Friday, no politician will depart the stage to the cheers heading Andy Murray’s way when he retires. Though we...
“We are not doing a running commentary on toilet arrangements.” This response from Labour when asked how the Treasury might be preparing for the...
Hello, police please. I’d like to report a mugging. Broad daylight, last Saturday, in the cafe of a well-known High Street store. What was stolen?...