With the Scottish and British governments in a stand-off over the future of the constitution our Writer at Large Neil Mackay talks to Professor Sir Tom Devine about where Scotland is in terms of the broad sweep of history - and what the future hol...

DOMINIC Cummings aimed to destroy his former boss last week. But he blew himself up instead with his intemperate j’accuse. Mr Johnson should really reward his former chief adviser – ennoble him as Baron Dom of Barnard Castle. He’s done him a gr...

LOSING a second referendum would mean the hope of Scottish independence would be “more or less lost” for a generation, Pete Wishart, the SNP’s longest-serving MP, has admitted as he warned that getting the timing right on staging Indyref2 wo...

THE taxman had a secret gameplan to push Rangers towards liquidation weeks before its financial implosion so there could be a full investigation over the non-payment of millions of pounds in tax, it has emerged.

Boris Johnson has married Carrie Symonds in a low-key ceremony planned in strict secrecy.

JUDGEMENT is the imperative on which all our politicians succeed or fail.

MINISTERS have been criticised for an "abject failure" over its 2020 'green capital of Europe' revolution which has produced as little as five per cent of the low carbon jobs it forecast.

ORKNEY'S 'five star' tourist attractions have helped it become named as the 'best Scottish island amongst British visitors.

MINISTERS face a court challenge over secret legal agreements which allowed the nationalisation of the owners of the shipyard at the centre of Scotland's ferry building fiasco.

With petals of vibrant pink, the deepest blue and dazzling yellow, the tiny wildflowers that cling to the harsh cliffs and weather-beaten coastline of southwest Scotland seem too delicate to survive.

BALMORAL estate Highland ponies owned by The Queen are to play a leading role in a battle against a brutal sickness that leaves horses fighting for their lives within hours of being struck down.

A new national flagship, the successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia, will promote British trade and industry around the world, Boris Johnson has said.

A new poll has found that just a fifth of voters in England strongly oppose Scottish independence.

Analysis has found over 1,000 assaults on police staff in the past year involved spitting and coughing or were otherwise linked to coronavirus, analysis suggests.

Vietnam has identified a Covid-19 hybrid variant, the country's health authorities say.

An MP in charge of the SNP’s finances has quit – claiming he was not given enough information to do the job.

The Health Secretary has urged residents to take advantage of the drop-in vaccination centres.

The Alba Party has launched its international chapter as part of a strategy that would try and secure a second Scottish independence referendum through  global pressure.

Anti-immigration protesters have brought traffic to a standstill in Dover as part of a protest in opposition to migrant crossings.

IT is teatime on a Wednesday as the faces of Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish pop up on my computer screen. We've arranged to talk – via the wonders of Zoom – about their new TV show, Men In Kilts, a travelogue which sees them criss-cross Scotl...

TAM Dalyell was wont to deploy a charmingly eclectic blend of interrogatory techniques in the Commons.

There have been 583 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

Glasgow's schools convener is urging the new Education Secretary to direct an overhaul of Scotland’s “unfair” and “inflexible” alternative assessment process as fears grow for pupils forced to self-isolate amid a fresh spike in Covid in...

Hundreds of people have gathered in central London to protest against the coronavirus vaccine rollout.

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RANGERS have lost the right to take legal action to force the receipt of two years income from its own branded merchandise worth millions after Mike Ashley's Sports Direct won a legal block.

Former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said Dominic Cummings aimed “to do as much damage to Boris Johnson as possible” when delivering evidence.

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A DATE has been set for a high-profile clash between London and Edinburgh over Holyrood’s powers.

IN the aftermath of the appalling “riot” by Rangers supporters in George Square, two themes have emerged that we find unhelpful and alarming.

THE pandemic will undo 10 years of progress in dementia care unless urgent funds are allocated by the Scottish Government, a charity leader has warned.

AT various points in Dominic Cummings’ testimony to Westminster’s Health and Social Care committee you hoped they were watching in places like India and Italy.

Scotland's Europe Minister has called on the UK Government to extend the deadline for the scheme allowing EU citizens living in the UK to apply for settled status.

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The chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has claimed the future of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is "in danger" if the Scottish Government does not ease social distancing rules.

Scotland’s Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said there was “significant community transmission” of coronavirus in the Glasgow hotspots.

IS IT bizarre to be so far away from Westminster and yet be so riveted by its doings?

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WHILST completely in agreement with Struan Stevenson ("March of the wind farms is destroying Scotland’s beauty – but we can stop it", The Herald, May 27) about the catastrophic effect of unrestrained wind farm development on Scotland’s beautifu...

AN AMERICAN woman has condemned the Home Office for ‘profiteering from their own incompetence’ over visa delays.

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After so many months in lockdown with little else to do, binge-watching has become an even bigger business than the streaming providers could have ever hoped back in 2019. Little wonder, then, that the battle for content is reaching grandiose scal...

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She was the matron of the Scottish Mission girls’ boarding school in Hungary and gave her life to protect Jewish schoolgirls during the Holocaust.

ALEXANDER McKay (Letters, May 28) asserts that the transfer of patients from hospitals to care homes led to unnecessary deaths. He seems unaware that Robert Cuffe, the BBC’s head of statistics, concluded that care homes receiving hospital discharge...

“WE are on the cusp of losing something critical to our cultural heritage,” Aleks Krotoski told listeners at the beginning of the first episode of a new series of The Digital Human. “And already so much has disappeared into history.”

WHAT would fashion in the 1980s and 1990s have looked like without Peter Lindbergh and Azzedine Alaia? As a new book, Peter Lindbergh Azzedine Alaia reminds us, the German photographer and the Tunisian designer effectively invented the age of the ...

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A Scots councillor has been arrested and charged over alleged child sex offences.

The Countess of Dumbarton has received her first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.