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Kate Forbes proved her ministerial competence when she was thrown in at the deep end in February 2020. Promoted to finance secretary after the...
It's been clear for a while the Bute House Agreement was a busted flush. What started out as a well-intentioned idea has turned sour for both the...
The last thing parents and pupils want in the next few months is a round of school closures brought about by strike action. With a reported rat...
Recent figures on homelessness were shaming for the Scottish Government. The number of “open cases” jumped to more than 30,000 and applications...
Humza Yousaf, Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater must accept the inevitable. The Bute House Agreement has not worked and it would be best if the SNP and...
The crisis in Scottish dentistry is growing ever deeper and it is posing a real danger to the nation’s health. Generations of improvement is now in...
The recent publication of the Cass Review into gender identity services in England shed some welcome light on a difficult subject. Young trans people...
The Scottish Government wants the public to think it's taking the housing emergency seriously. Its latest legislation does contain some welcome...
Iain Packer’s reign of terror is finally at an end after decades of hateful violence against women. The victim list was extensive, not least because...
Scotland has its first female Chief Constable – and there is no doubt that Jo Farrell now has one of the toughest jobs in UK policing. The justice...
The new King faces a stiff challenge to make the monarchy relevant to the everyday lives of Scots. The institution remains popular but this reflects...
The mortgage scandal lays bare the destruction that the Tories have wreaked on the economy. The figures are shocking. They show that hard-working...
Boris Johnson’s performance at the UK Covid Inquiry will have given not one crumb of comfort to the bereaved mourning almost 250,000 deaths from the...
Many have their doubts about whether the COP28 talks in Dubai will do much to tackle the mounting threats of climate change. But it’s good news that...
The goalposts have moved dramatically in world football. Saudi Arabia will host the World Cup in 2034 – just 12 years after Fifa caused outrage by...
It is cruel of the Tories to ban 20 female Afghans from studying in Scotland. These women defied the Taliban, who the west have waged war against...
Labour’s by-election wins in the safe Tory seats of Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth are encouraging for anyone desperate to see the back of this...
Ally McCoist, Gabby Logan and James Nesbitt are just some of the famous faces who have given up their time to raise money for Doddie Weir’s MND...
We will have to wait until the end of a public inquiry before we know the full truth of the NHS hospitals scandal. The probe will look at problems in...
Criticism of Keir Starmer’s position over the Rosebank oil field development has raised the question once again – what does Labour stand for? The...
Campaigners, backed by this newspaper, have been calling for the use of safe drug consumption rooms (DCR) for years. Now, at long last, the decision...
The Station Hotel in Ayr, which went up in flames on Monday evening, was once the centrepiece of the historic seaside town. The structure was once...
It is an absolute disgrace that one in three Scots babies is living in poverty. A charity more used to raising awareness of hunger and want in the...
Paramedics and ambulance technicians are real frontline heroes – working flat-out to keep us safe. They regularly work beyond their finishing time...