WE’RE often told it’s the young, not the old who care about the future. The youth are what drive us to recognise that our house is on fire and we need to act. But I’ve never really bought that line. I’ve always thought there are people in all...

Humza Yousaf has urged Police Scotland to "hold those responsible to account" following a video clip showing racist chanting in Glasgow city centre.

Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove was spotted dancing in a nightclub in Aberdeen.

By Kristy Dorsey

If there’s a word guaranteed to give me the boak, it is the word woke, which has been co-opted by fusty conservatives to pillory anyone vaguely left-leaning. On Saturday, educationalist Professor Alan Smithers became the latest to set my teeth on e...

YOUR first reaction on reading Andrew Neil’s Daily Mail column about the SNP/Green coalition deal was: If only it were true. Mr Neil had dismissed the Greens as “Eco-zealot Marxists”. HM Mail, in trademark style, lifted the phrase into its head...

There is nothing quite as British as a queue.

Nicola Sturgeon promising she won’t mention independence during a coronavirus briefing is like me promising I won’t mention independence during a column about independence. It’s not going to happen. And so it was no surprise at all when the Fir...

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and other officials are set to focus on future engagement with the Taliban in a bid to find an international consensus on how to deal with Afghanistan’s new regime.

Analysis By Joanne Lockwood  

United need a dominant midfielder

DINBURGH’S Scott Quin revealed he was one of the Paralympic swimmers forced to self-isolate in Japan but rebounded to win bronze 48 hours after returning to the pool.

Analysis By s1jobs  

Companies looking to hire across the sector-wide shortage of senior technology team leaders need to be more honest and conversational in their recruitment, an industry executive has said.

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By Ian McConnell

FOR millennia out of body experiences have been seized on as evidence of an afterlife or proof that humans have a soul which leaves their body after death.

Celebrity chef Nick Nairn has thanked people for their support after a "terrible fire" at one of his restaurants.

A Scots woman who says menopausal symptoms left her fearing she was suffering a heart attack says GP training in symptoms and treatment solutions must improve.

IN a letter published by you on July 19 this year, I correctly predicted that the easing of restrictions would be disastrous in terms of further increases in Covid-19 with consequent rises in long Covid. Our National Health Service will be shortly ov...

MAYBE you like to keep it simple and resist becoming one of those “I’ll have a half-soy non-fat de-caf organic iced vanilla frappuccino extra hot with foam” kind of people. For everyone else, it will soon be pumpkin spice latte day.

Food for thought

On Saturday, the 38-year-old produced one of those days to fend off the advances of Dundee United and secure the Jam Tarts all three points. 

VETERAN Scottish hotelier and restaurateur Ian Fleming is seeking a “suitable operator” to take on the remaining 10-year leasehold for the landmark Lake of Menteith Hotel to focus on building his historic inns business in the US.

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of more than 100 books including poetry, short stories, children’s novels as well as detective and general fiction. He grew up in Zimbabwe before moving to Edinburgh to study law at the University, where he late...

THERE are few people who know the rugged wilds of Scotland as intimately as Paul Murton. The TV presenter and author began hitchhiking around the country as a teenager, catching lifts from Ardentinny in Argyll where he grew up, to explore the many hi...

There have been 7,113 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

THE SNP’s independence plans have become “more extreme” since the referendum of 2014, Gordon Brown has said.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the UK departure from Afghanistan was “the culmination of a mission unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes”.

Clinging to cliff faces and rocky outcrops are the gnarled and stunted high-altitude survivors of times long gone by.

ONE of Scotland’s leading architects has called Glasgow School of Art’s approach to its students as “despicable” and accused the institution of leaving them floundering at a key point in their education.

JIM McColl, one of Scotland's wealthiest men, has said he would be willing to make a return to the helm at the firm at the centre of a shipbuilding fiasco but says Scottish Government-controlled ferries operation needs to end.

GARDEN furniture prices have soared by as much as 155 per cent during the pandemic new research has revealed.

SCOTLAND's justice system is back in the dock as it emerged a system for vetting police and stopping officers avoiding investigation introduced four years ago in England and Wales has so far failed to emerge north of the border.

The devastating terror attack at Kabul airport was a reminder that other dangerous forces exist in Afghanistan. Foreign editor David Pratt runs the rule over the Taliban’s allies and enemies that will now shape the country

Professor Catherine Heymans talks to Writer at Large Neil Mackay about what came before the Big Bang, the Multiverse, alien life, time travel and her hunt for dark matter

“Here I am Lord, send me”, Joe Biden quoted the Old Testament Prophet Isaiah in his belated statement on the killing of 13 American servicemen and women in Kabul last week. A peculiarly inappropriate reference. The last thing anyone needed was th...

ST MIRREN and St Johnstone are both still looking for their first win of the season after an entertaining 0-0 draw in the cinch Premiership at the Simple Digital Arena, though both teams will have felt they could have taken all three points.

Scottish teams will invariably always be regarded as selling clubs, they know their place on the food chain in a vast football landscape.

It is maybe not enough yet to make up for Line Of Duty’s duff ending, but Suranne Jones as a cop working a case aboard a submarine, and our own Martin Compston in a beard?

BOROUGHMUIR Bears battled back to beat Stirling County 23-17 at Meggetland yesterday, but the Edinburgh side remain bottom of the table as Super6 begins its brief mid-season break.

The first round draw for this season’s Scottish Cup took place this evening at Hampden Park with Scotland Rugby Head Coach Gregor Townsend conducting the draw.

Afghans aren’t much taken with dogs. Many of them consider them haraam, or forbidden, although the only stipulation in the Koran is that they shouldn’t be kept in the house. Although the Hadiths are much more forbidding. So, generally they won’...

Defeated, Britain again pulls out of Afghanistan, as it has done three times before, leaving behind blood and military treasure and many of those who supported the endeavour, which started as a mission to root out al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden and mor...

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WE have not yet seen the summer out and already the gloomy message that Christmas could be "cancelled" is doing the rounds. In the good old days, my mother used to wait until at least after Hallowe'en to pull that one out of the bag if I wasn't on my...

The Taliban has deployed extra forces around Kabul's airport to prevent large crowds from gathering after a devastating suicide attack two days earlier, as the massive US-led airlift winds down ahead of its August 31 deadline.

We’re seeing growing numbers of gulls in our towns and cities and while this is due in part to climate change, the public can help alleviate the problem.