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The UK is said to be experiencing an epidemic of working-age illness. Growing numbers of people are living with chronic conditions and diseases that...
A week in Westminster. Where they know what’s coming, but are left agonisingly waiting to find out when it will hit. That’s how the House of...
Humza Yousaf has survived a year as first minister, but he could be forgiven for feeling he has little to celebrate. Former Scottish Labour leader Jim...
Scotland’s dormant network of community councils could be at risk of becoming a platform for the far-right to gain legitimacy. Unpaid, unfunded and...
Critics of the SNP’s new hate crime legislation have rightly seized on a juvenile marketing campaign by Police Scotland to promote the law. In a...
In the aftermath of Nicola Sturgeon’s abrupt resignation as first minister and SNP leader, it was clear the party had no obvious successor. The...
Across Tayside and Fife, local councillors have set out grim budgets for the year ahead against a backdrop of cuts directed their way from London and...
The Scottish Labour faithful will gather in Glasgow this weekend, confident that they are on the road to power. With the party on the ascendancy in...
Humza Yousaf may just find a silver-lining if a report into the conduct of his under-fire health boss proves difficult, using a potential cabinet...
It was an opportunity for them to show the importance of a strong, independent civil service, and the crucial role they played in responding to a once...
Asked to name one of their party’s biggest achievements in government, SNP members will consistently point to the scrapping of tuition fees. The...
MSPs could only watch on as the reality of the SNP’s draft budget was laid bare by the boss of a leading Scottish anti-poverty charity this week....
Humza Yousaf will face a crunch test in 2024 – with a clear goal for the General Election already set in stone. Political leaders normally shy away...
Away from the content, it was Deputy First Minister Shona Robison’s delivery of the SNP government’s budget on Tuesday that attracted most...
It’s nearly Christmas. A political fall out was always inevitable. But rather than something interesting or of substance, just weeks into his new...
Sir Keir Starmer ends the year on an undoubted high after a string of polls predicting a Labour victory, but some of the party faithful in Scotland...
A stark report this week has unmasked sky-rocketing rents across Scotland, and perhaps more importantly, why housing should prove crucial at upcoming...
As one former prime minister returned to government this week, another told a London audience packed with business leaders why they must urgently back...
Humza Yousaf heads into his first party conference as SNP leader amid a harrowing family crisis that will overshadow the domestic political turbulence...