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John McLellanHerald Scotland |
Who could disagree with the Crisis Scotland charity that the deaths of 40 homeless people in a relatively prosperous city like Edinburgh in 2024 was...
The SNP U-turn on holding an inquiry into grooming gangs should be followed by accepting that a wider public investigation into child safeguarding is...
Time could be up for Edinburgh’s creaking minority Labour administration as the horse-trading over the City of Edinburgh’s Council’s budget come...
More allegations of bad behaviour in the increasingly dysfunctional City of Edinburgh Council once again demonstrate the Ethical Standards system...
With six months to go before Edinburgh’s Tourist Tax goes live, a bundle of good, bad and indifferent plans have been lined up to spend the expected...
Whistleblowers’ experience of Edinburgh Council’s handling of freedom of information requests shows just how much reform of the system is needed,...
The housing crisis is real, and although solutions are there to be had, politicians are doing little to solve it except to make it more difficult and...
Nearly 6,000 Edinburgh households are set to be hit by the SNP’s new mansion tax, another assault on the capital’s aspirational middle classes,...
This week’s events at Holyrood only confirm that a lack of genuine accountability and responsibility for serious mistakes is becoming an accepted...
Yet another scandal involving Edinburgh’s shamed former council leader Cammy Day should mean Labour’s chaotic administration of the capital city...
The rejection of more parking restrictions in Edinburgh was the right decision, but might only be a temporary reprieve for residents, writes Herald...
The Care Inspectorate report into Edinburgh’s troubled residential care system for young people has only scratched the surface of deep-rooted...
Amidst the chaos of Edinburgh’s housing emergency and a soaring population, hundreds of unsellable homes are to be demolished and millions spent on...
A Scottish Care Inspectorate report into concerns about child protection services in Edinburgh is due next week, but campaigners are not holding their...
Edinburgh Council’s prolonged illegal use of unlicensed accommodation was an embarrassing failure of leadership and a gift for unscrupulous...
Unless the Scottish Government changes its attitude to investment in Edinburgh ’s economy and infrastructure, plans to extend the city’s tram...
As Chancellor Rachel Reeves gets set for a manifesto-busting tax raid , Edinburgh’s Poverty Commission demands more taxpayers’ money to hit an...
The farce at the heart of Edinburgh Council has reached Whitehall proportions with the sacking of one senior councillor and the rehabilitation of...
When even using a basic and commonly available artificial intelligence tool can cause a rumpus, the green agenda will do nothing to improve Edinburgh...
The observers who warned Edinburgh's net zero policy was unachievable can now say: told you so, says John McLellan If the past, according to author...
Aspirational Scots are being hammered for tax and John Swinney should take Kemi Badenoch’s advice and scrap the punitive Land and Buildings...
The Standards Commission for Scotland and its Code of Conduct is inconsistent and too easy to weaponise and abuse, says Herald columnist and former...
Edinburgh councillors’ hate-hate relationship with tourism threatens to derail the re-establishment of an essential conference marketing agency,...
After a slew of major tech announcements this week, new developments in Edinburgh give it a chance to grasp the opportunities big data offers, writes...
Edinburgh scores highly in the new PWC Good Growth for Cities Index and although it doesn’t gloss over problems, it’s a PR stunt which masks SNP...
Edinburgh is crying out for new housing developments - and new public transport to get to them, says Herald columnist John McLellan Less than...
The potential extension of Edinburgh's trams may come with an extraordinary bill, says John McLennan Like pilgrims wearing a cilice in an act of...
Liam’s not happy with Edinburgh. And he’s spot on Liam Gallagher’s opinion of the City of Edinburgh Council was crystal clear. I can’t spell...
As the crowds flock to Festival venues and wonder which toilets they can use in safety, the usual arguments about “over-tourism” will doubtless...
A good few years ago, a body was found in Niddry Street just off Edinburgh’s High Street, at the service entrance to the Whistle Binkie’s pub, a...
I’m not sure what qualifications are required for “national treasure” status. Most people would say great age and the absence of controversy,...
It’s reassuring the chair of Edinburgh’s new Visitor Levy Advisory Forum, Julie Ashworth, and her new team of 12 advisors are “excited to get to...
Most of us will have suffered buyer’s remorse at one time or another, from a bad choice in a holiday restaurant to an awful car. The electric thing...
From feather dusters to cocks of Craiglockhart Hill, no-one could blame Edinburgh Lib Dems for being cock-a-hoop after their narrow and unexpected...
The Tour de France claims to be the world’s third biggest televised sporting event after the Olympics and the football World Cup, which would make...
Every speaker was heard in respectful silence, but then councillors debating a report into the handling of allegations of sexual harassment against...
Of all the recommendations from the latest report into whistleblowing culture and safeguarding in the City of Edinburgh Council, it’s doubtful the...
For a week devoted to putting Edinburgh under the microscope, one of the stand-out stories in The Herald this week was Glasgow’s decision to change...
The applause from Hibernian supporters for Sir Tom Farmer as the hearse carrying his body passed Easter Road stadium this week took me back to the 90s...
I’d never been to New York until last month, and like most people visiting for the first time, I was blown away by the experience. Hamilton on...
Most folk enjoy a good old moan about the state of the roads, if enjoy is the right word. Potholes, speed limits, bad junctions and all that sort of...
There are few occasions Edinburgh councillors are in full and genuine agreement, but Thursday’s emotional tributes to the late Val Walker, the...
It was the local government equivalent of the “I’m Spartacus” moment when Kirk Douglas was about to be nailed up at the end of the 1960 sword...
The last vehicle to roll out of the Madelvic factory in Granton was before the First World War ended, one of the first casualties in the sorry saga of...
Now Sir Keir Starmer’s bandwagon has been derailed in spectacular fashion by a litany of broken principles and promises, the chances of Anas Sarwar...
It’s very, very easy to take the mick out of your local councillors, puffed-up panjandrums lording it about their communities like the big bloke in...
Edinburgh International Festival-goers are well used to seeing the Dunard Fund credited as one of a small handful of principal sponsors, without which...
For the past two years, Edinburgh residents have been getting used to a ban on cars and buses from George Street at the heart of the New Town, and the...
Sauchiehall Street is a bomb site, Aberdeen’s Union Street is a wasteland, now three central Edinburgh community councils have united to brand...
The Stockbridge Slug, the Inverleith Toad, the Zit, call it what you will, not since the Golden Turd adorning the St James Quarter has an Edinburgh...
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