A FORMER Tory minister has savaged Boris Johnson’s leadership failures and accused him of presiding over a “culture of casual law-breaking” in Downing Street.

The Isle of May, a wedge of volcanic greenstone rising up out of the Firth of Forth, is possibly best known for its birds. Over 285 species have been recorded there, including thirteen key species of seabird.

IT is a short trip from the pavement to the Great West Door of St Paul’s Cathedral. Barely a hop, skip and a jump compared to the 528-step hike to the dome. To Boris Johnson and his wife, however, it must have felt like an ascent of Everest when th...

MINISTERS are breaching the law on safe staffing by allowing the enlisting of students to fill gaps in nursing cover in the NHS in Scotland, a new investigation has found.

By Scott Wright

CHURCH leaders have backed SNP ministers removing psychological assessments for trans people wanting to obtain a gender recognition certificate.

When perplexed, my late uncle George would invariably shake his head and mutter, “I don’t know”. Usually, he had just recounted the latest goings on at the shipyard where he spent most of his working life.

Scottish nationalists are proposing a new code of conduct for their movement and, given they’ve come up with the idea during the jubilee, I have a suggestion for what the code’s first rule should be. It would go something like this: Relax. Calm d...

THE company that claims to be the "world’s first" app-based broadband provider, Brillband, has made two key appointments as it prepares to launch a pioneering trial of its technology in Scotland.

GLENEAGLES Townhouse, the hotel company’s new venture in the Scottish capital, is due to open its doors today.

How we get bent out of shape protecting comfortable old lies, like the universal popularity of monarchy and its mongrel offspring ¬ the landed aristocracy. Both are symbols of a bygone age and yet were vigorously paraded this weekend, with relativel...

THE Scottish and UK Governments have both had cause to give thanks to The Queen for her longevity. Her Majesty’s platinum jubilee celebrations arrived at just the right time for Boris Johnson as he seeks to divert attention from the lies and corrup...

By Ian McConnell

Next month I’ll be taking on the role of chair of the Scottish Fiscal Commission. It is a huge honour to be following in the footsteps of Dame Susan Rice, who has led the commission over these last eight years.

By Myles Fitt

REBECCA McQuillan's article ("Renewable power is cheap so why are we being ripped off?",The Herald, June 3) exhibited a very poor level of background research and a too-ready acceptance of renewable energy industry myth and misconception.

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Overlooked by high rise flats and a short kick of the ball from the national stadium, Cathkin Park is the final resting place for a slice of football history and symbol of how the once mighty can fall.

A NEW documentary explores the role Scotland played in moulding an English horror classic.

HE is the world's richest man who is working to revolutionise transport - and Twitter - but in recent days, it is a question Elon Musk traditionally asks in interviews that has had people scratching their heads.

THE Diary’s favourite (sorta) Scottish singer is Sir Rod Stewart. Unfortunately, he’s receiving derisory criticism for his weekend performance at the Party at the Palace concert, especially his version of a certain Neil Diamond ditty.

Secretary of State for Scotland, Alister Jack has said he will back Boris Johnson in tonight's vote of no confidence.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a vote of no confidence

Kevin Lindsay, the union’s Scottish organiser, has said that he believes a deal is “close”

A vote will take now take place at 6pm tonight, in accordance with the Tory party's rules

Emergency services attended but the 23-year-old died at the scene

A minister has backed Boris Johnson to ‘face down’ rebel demands for him to resign during a potential vote on his future as Britain’s leader

Looking for the best meme coins to invest in 2022? You aren’t alone. More and more retail investors are ditching first-generation crypto and turning to meme coins

A SCOTTISH roofing company established in 1965 has ceased trading, with all of its 20 employees losing their jobs.

The Home Office has been accused of attempting to deport unaccompanied children to Rwanda.

A SENIOR Tory minister doesn’t think a confidence vote against Boris Johnson will materialise this week but has insisted the PM will see off any fight.

A SENIOR Tory minister doesn’t think a confidence vote against Boris Johnson will materialise this week but has insisted the PM will see off any fight.

NATIONALISED ScotRail has confirmed the Dutch state transport firm Abellio which formerly ran the franchise is cashing in on continued contracts to support crippled train services.

MORE than 50 nationalised ScotRail train services have been cancelled today - despite the timetable being slashed due to driver shortages to provide greater certainty and reliability.

GOVERNMENT officials have admitted more work is required to protect Scotland from the impacts of the climate crisis – amid a warning a strategy is “not yet keeping pace” with the worst consequences.

MINISTERS have been accused of failing to tackle an epidemic of long Covid, especially in children as a record 155,000 Scots have been revealed to be suffering from the debilitating condition.

FEARS have been raised that a ministerial pledge to revolutionise the care of young people in Scotland is at risk with social workers at “a critical tipping point” as staff report increasing concerns that social work workloads have become unmanag...

NATIONALISED ScotRail have been told they have gone too far with cutting services during the crippling pay dispute - as union leaders say drivers have been sitting around doing nothing.

It is one of the most tranquil and beautiful members of the so-called Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides that for many years had been dogged with problems with absentee landlords, including lack of home and business security, unemployment and poor hou...

An analysis for The Herald on Sunday by the Institute for Fiscal Studies found that outwith the protected areas of health and teacher recruitment, up to 13 per cent of staff in areas targeted for savings could be lost.

Pristine and perfect, for visitors who travel past the calm sanctuary of Iona Abbey to reach the island’s North End beach find a precious place on earth, seemingly far from the turmoil and turbulence of the modern world.

For a while, Connor Graham was dubbed the “most missing boy” in Scotland, a serial absconder from school, the care system and life in general, the troubled teenager most likely to be AWOL from class.

THE face-masks have all but gone, so too the social distancing. The press conferences, featuring those familiar medical experts accompanied by a welter of statistics, have disappeared from our TV screens.

From Africa to Asia, Europe to America, a 'perfect storm' of factors topped off by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has precipitated a world food crisis. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines the causes and effects

Dr Paul Morland is the UK’s leading demographer – an expert on trends in human society. Here he talks to our Writer at Large about the grim outlook for Scotland and the rest of the UK, what demography means for the constitution, the decline of th...

How does the SNP get away with it? Last week’s spending review was an exercise in what can only be described as fiscal austerity. Yet the media and political response has been strangely muted. The nationalist commentariat politely looked the other ...

By Andrew Quinn

WHEN Pope John Paul was shot and wounded by a Turkish assassin, Mehmet Ali Ağca, in St Peter’s Square, Rome, in May 1981, amongst the global reactions of shock and outrage was an understandable degree of speculation about his visit to Britain in 1...

Badgers, Beck and rock licks: Johnny Depp's post-trial odyssey

FURTHER to Alex Orr’s letter (May 29) and the case of Joseph Knight, it is worth noting that the much-maligned Henry Dundas, the future Lord Melville, successfully presented Knight’s case before the Court of Session in 1777. The senior judge on t...