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On the 25th anniversary of the foot and mouth epidemic, Herald writer Rosemary Goring asks why it’s important we remember that cataclysmic event....
News of avoidable baby deaths at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, at the same time as a new Netflix documentary about baby killer...
The convictions of child serial killer Lucy Letby have come under the microscope in a new documentary from Netflix. The Investigation of Lucy Letby...
With the Trump administration growing increasingly authoritarian, Herald writer Rosemary Goring asks if America’s comedians are becoming the real...
On the announcement of a UK contract for a massive wind farm in the outer Firth of Forth, Herald columnist Rosemary Goring asks if its green...
With time on her hands, Herald writer Rosemary Goring decided to make a quiche. Would it go right this time? Of all the words that could be used to...
With the announcement that the last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots is to go on display at Perth Museum next year, Herald columnist Rosemary Goring...
With a group of volunteers in West Lothian collecting a record weight in rubbish this year, Herald columnist Rosemary Goring asks if we should expect...
As the Scottish Government drops legislation for greener heating for the second time in a year, Herald columnist Rosemary Goring asks what policy...
On the announcement of a competition for a memorial to Muriel Spark in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens, Herald columnist Rosemary Goring applauds...
It was over in seconds and, as always, I didn’t feel a thing. "That’s you for another year", the pharmacist said, discarding the needle. It felt...
This is my favourite way to spend a relaxing Saturday afternoon, says Herald columnist Rosemary Goring A friend who owns a bookshop has lost count...
A survey from the HomeOwners Alliance shows many over-55s would like to move to a bungalow. Herald columnist Rosemary Goring cannot agree. Some...
With Angus Council banning heating appliances using solid carbon fuels and gas in all its properties, Herald columnist Rosemary Goring asks if this...
Jeremy Clarkson is having a remarkable effect on farming, says Rosemary Goring In recent days tractors, their trailers heaped with grain, have been...
Encountering Nicola Sturgeon at the Govanhill Book Festival, Herald columnist Kevin McKenna asked if, with her memoir Frankly about to be published,...
On a bright summer’s day recently I visited Paxton House, a Palladian mansion near the English border. It lies beside the River Tweed within acres...
Come the new school term in August, North Ayrshire Council plans to axe its complement of five school librarians, who cover nine secondaries. In their...
As Keir Starmer and his cabinet try to keep control at the wheel it’s like watching the slowest car crash in political history. In scenes...
It is the drowsy hum of bees and the sun on the back of my neck that I remember most vividly. That, and the head-high rows of ripe raspberries which I...
Hard as it may be to believe but it is less than six months since Donald Trump became leader of what we used to call the free world. Even harder to...
On Tuesday, I found myself in a bar in Edinburgh’s New Town filled with military chaplains. Some were in dog collars, most were in mufti, and all...
How do bats avoid bumping into things in the dark? They’re governed by the same system, I suspect, as kids who, when scrolling their mobile phones,...
In recent weeks, various friends have returned from trips to Perth Museum full of praise for the staff, the renovated building and the stunning way in...
One of Alexander McCall Smith’s favourite anecdotes is of eavesdropping on two women walking along Morningside Road. One says indignantly, “Would...
“Whenever a friend succeeds,” said Gore Vidal, “a little something in me dies.” I thought of that when Nicola Sturgeon, having finally been...
In the late 1990s, I was taken by a friend to visit the writer-in-residence at Brownsbank Cottage, near Biggar. A former farmworker’s but’n’ben,...
When I first moved to a city, after university, I could not get used to sooty streets that the sun never reached and to people hurrying past head-down...
It’s good to see that BBC Scotland does not take it cue from the Scottish education system. Undeterred by the fact that Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s...
Brace yourselves. For the next six weeks we’ll be locked in a scrum, half-blinded by a fug of steam from the ruck around us, someone tugging on our...
In recent years, as the decline of the country formerly known as Great Britain has gone largely unchecked, there is one thing in which we remain...
Overlooking Lake Maggiore in the north of Italy lies the commune of Nebbiuno. It is typical of small Italian towns, with old churches, an...
“It’s not dark yet, but it’s gettin’ there”, sings Bob Dylan, in a warning growl. He might be referring to the benighted state of the world,...
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