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Andrew TickellHerald Scotland |
IN August 2017, Katie Allan drove her car while under the influence of alcohol, lost control, mounted a pavement and struck a pedestrian. She pled...
THERE are, somewhat remarkably, 92 hereditary peers in the House of Lords. Since 1999, 90 of these choice gentlemen have been farcically elected to...
EIGHT months on, has John Swinney managed to turn the SNP’s fortunes around? When he first took over in the spring of this year, the task he...
IT comes back, in the end, to a problem of under-definition. Some political strategists promote the benefits of creative ambiguity. Avoid defining...
POLITICIANS in governing parties often seem to enjoy the diplomatic parts of their jobs. For prime ministers, a foreign junket is a good excuse to...
LAST week, the journalist Lewis Goodall prompted a modest puff of controversy by arguing that some MPs are being dishonest about why they oppose...
LAST week, The Herald shone a spotlight on access to justice in Scotland. Scots lawyers are – ironically – often terrible advocates for their...
‘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...
THE Scottish Tories are feeling chipper this week after winning four local government by-elections caused by a slate of councillors being elected...
Are we heading for an early Holyrood election? On Wednesday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves will present her long-deferred Budget statement to the House...
I SOMETIMES wonder if the best way to bury a controversial story in Britain is to launch a full public inquiry into what happened. I know this...
‘MARK my words. It’ll be Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands next.” This was the predictably doolally reaction from some self-styled British...
ONE sentence in the recent Scottish Fiscal Commission’s report on the state of Scotland’s finances has been singled out for repetition. You might...
THERE’S a famous exchange towards the end of the play A Man For All Seasons. The setting is Tutor England, circa 1530. Sir Thomas More is on trial...
I THINK the Jesuits used to call it mental reservation. The rest of us know it as crossing your fingers. It has other good names too. Casuistry....
CRITICS and fans probably agree – the proposal was emblematic, in its way, of the late Nicola Sturgeon and brief Humza Yousaf premierships. In...
I MET a Tory-minded friend last week who suggested there’s only one important question in Scottish politics right now: What’s the price of...
IT is difficult to imagine a would-be politician in the UK saying “vote for me, I used to be a PE teacher”, and harder still to imagine a crowd...
YOU probably know the fable of the scorpion and the frog. Stuck on the riverbank, unable to swim, the scorpion asks the frog if he will carry it...
YOU might think vice-chancellors would be more preoccupied with the government of the day’s education policies, but in recent years, it’s been...
WHEN you hear the phrase “freedom of movement,” you could be forgiven for thinking we’re talking about the European Union. But the idea has...
CAN five years imprisonment for peaceful protests ever be proportionate? Convicted of a conspiracy to cause public nuisance under section 78 of the...
I have never lost a friend before. A granny, a colleague – but never a friend. Two weeks ago, as returning officers were counting up the votes...
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