Politics

Prior to Thatcher the notion of borrowing tens of thousands of pounds just to get on with life was WRONG!
Maoism…Rip it up and start again. We face a dangerous democratic deficit across Scotland and apparently…
The Pope’s visit to Scotland again shaped First Minister's Questions (FMQs) with Deputy First Minister (DFM…
The upcoming visit of the Pope to Scotland added colour to First Minister's Question Time yesterday (9 Sept…
Giving his personal experience of working in Communist Eastern Europe, former Foreign Correspondent Peter…
Can newspapers survive the internet? Most are available free on the web, but compete there with broadcast…
Football fans, politicians, and sports media examined the politics of Scotland’s national game and discussed…
Superlatives are weak and ineffective when in presence of a true master in his field: the newspaper comic…
One of the most respected economic commentators of our times, Joseph Stiglitz made a clearly welcome return…
Why is it we always remember where we were when something bad happens?
Today we lost the Scots Makar, Edwin Morgan who died aged 90. "Don’t let your work and hope be other than…
Christine Grahame MSP plans to screen a Dutch TV film "Lockerbie Revisited" at an upcoming SNP conf
The thumbnail of this picture by Norrie Stewart does the humour little justice as the 'Comedy Kicks Ass'…
Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, writing in Scotland on Sunday on 8th August…
First Minister Alex Salmond has written to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in order to assist…
The Main Hall of the Scottish Parliament and various Committee Rooms are given over to five days of public…
The First Minister, Alex Salmond MSP, discusses the Scottish Government's proposals for a referendum on…
Ruth Wishart is undoubtedly A Good Thing (to borrow Sellers and Yeatman's phrase of approval), and it was…
An inspiring programme of debate and drama starts today as the Scottish Parliament's fifth Festival of…
Former Royal Bank of Scotland chief Sir Fred "the Shred" Goodwin is facing increasing public and government…