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Dani GaravelliThe Guardian |
John Swinney’s accession to the leadership of the Scottish National party has been called a “coronation”. Yet the smooth handover of power that...
THAT Humza Yousaf messed up was a given. He admitted as much in his resignation speech when he said he had underestimated the degree of hurt his...
The Bute House agreement (BHA) was supposed to stabilise the SNP. Brokered by Nicola Sturgeon in August 2021, the coalition with the Greens at first...
MY sons were born travellers. That’s not a boast; it’s a fact. At home, I often struggled to get them breakfasted and out the door of a morning. ...
ON THE day the Hate Crime legislation came into force, I was on Ben A’an. It was Easter Monday, so it was busier than usual, the steep paths to the...
Despite being open by nature, and frequently plundering my own life for copy, I have never written about my experiences of the menopause. The reasons...
DESPITE being open by nature, and frequently plundering my own life for copy, I have never written about my experiences of the menopause. The reasons...
FOR a decision allegedly taken to protect MPs, last week’s tampering with Westminster protocol hasn’t half enabled racist rhetoric and inflamed an...
FOR a decision allegedly taken to protect MPs, last week’s tampering with Westminster protocol hasn’t half enabled racist rhetoric and inflamed an...
By Dani Garavelli WITH the UK helter-skeltering towards oblivion, what voters crave is a route map out of the mess we’re in: someone - ANYONE -...
When Nicola Sturgeon broke down at the UK Covid inquiry she was accused of shedding crocodile tears. They looked real enough to me, induced by having...
THERE is no end to the questions raised by the Post Office scandal which, after 20-odd years, is finally getting the attention it deserves. Some of...
ONE of the most notable characteristics of 14 years of Tory rule is that the closer we come to breaking the seal on a brand new calendar, the more...
By Dani Garavelli EVERY time I walk from Glasgow Central to Glasgow Queen Street during the festive season, I experience the same weird emotional...
They set off for COP28 - David Cameron, Rishi Sunak and King Charles - in a squadron of private jets. Picture them, high on moral purpose, spreading...
MICHAEL Matheson’s iPad scandal is discombobulating precisely because it’s so relatable. Very few of us can imagine private donors stepping in to...
SO FAR the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has been like watching a weird TV chimera: part Charlie Brooker-style dystopia where a virus has been invented with the...
AFTER a lacklustre start to his leadership, Humza Yousaf knew he needed to produce a rabbit from his hat at SNP conference; to come up with a...
SO, the results are in and the corpse of the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election is being dissected like a frog in a biology class. The...
LOOK at the forests burning. Look at the river beds cracking. Look at the river banks bursting. Look at the sea levels rising. Look at the jellyfish...
The decision by Scotland’s Lord Advocate to greenlight the trial of a safer drug consumption room in Glasgow is a landmark victory for campaigners,...
ON May 28, 2019, I sat in in a record crowd of 18,555 Saltire-waving fans watching Scotland’s women’s team take on Jamaica in a pre-Euros friendly...