ONE minute you are cock of the walk, the next a feather duster. It is a favourite saying of Piers Morgan (an expert in such matters) and suited the scene perfectly on the Sunday politics shows yesterday.

Boris Johnson’s departure has poleaxed the independence movement. That, at least, is the received wisdom.

It’s been a good couple of weeks for septuagenarians and octogenarians and it had nothing to do with pensions. The feelgood factor started with 80-year-old Paul McCartney’s astonishing performance at Glastonbury. In hope rather than expectation, ...

A subtle message can be glimpsed as high Tories and their nominees in the right-wing press jostle to tell us just what an all-round rascal Boris Johnson is. The impression they seek to convey is that the Prime Minister is a law unto himself and a man...

IT might not be the biggest, but it has its sights firmly set on being the best-loved, says Brillband founder Duncan Di Biase.

By Ian McConnell

Everyone knows your eyes can lie, that the evidence you see around you can give a false impression of what’s really going on, and it was like that in Glasgow in 2014. I remember walking about the city on the day of the referendum and every second p...

A SCOTS sculptor who has helped to fund a school for children with dyslexia in Bali will see first-hand how it can make a difference to their lives when he makes his first visit there.

HALF a million Scots could struggle to access cash due to the unprecedented rate of bank closures, MPs have warned.

Twenty-five years ago, the Bank of England was granted independence from HM Treasury. The first decade of that independence was largely uneventful. Inflation hovered around its target of 2%. Growth was stable, investor confidence high, and the public...

I HAVE read with interest recent letters from a couple of the usual “SNP bad” suspects scraping the bottom of the barrel and seeking to somehow link the conduct of the caretaker Prime Minister and that of our First Minister (Letters, June 7 & 8)....

By Aoife Deery

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THE Diary recently reported the terrifying true story of a breed of huge spiders that proliferated near the Hunterston A power station in Ayrshire.

HE found global fame as the bumbling, foppish star of Four Weddings and a Funeral back in 1994. But times change and Hugh Grant has become better known of late for his heated political views, even playing a leading part in events on the day Boris Joh...

Now in its fifth year, award winning accelerator programme opens applications for next cohort of clean energy start-ups.

BORIS Johnson has been accused of trying to secure a job for a young woman he was having an affair with.

THE redevelopment of a key city centre site is to get under way with construction due to start within weeks.

THE former SNP MP, George Kerevan, has accused Nicola Sturgeon of dangling the prospect of a second referendum as a distraction to stop independence supporters objecting to swingeing public sector cuts.

THE TREASURY has ruled out additional help for Scots with surging energy bills this winter.

Iain Mills from Largs says: "I write prose and poetry in a variety of genres, though it is fiction that gives me the greatest buzz. I’m really pleased to be one of the winners. I felt that my story, The Cauld Blast, came together well, though, as a...

TORY leadership hopefuls Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt have both ruled out a second independence referendum for another decade.

THE race to replace Boris Johnson has intensified overnight with eight candidates now vying for the Tory leadership.

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Lynn Shand's mother, Elizabeth, requires care, "from the moment she gets up to the moment she goes to bed."

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Few tears are being shed at the departure of the Lord of Misrule from Downing Street. Though deep in the bowels of Bute House there is the faint sound of the gnashing of teeth. Boris Johnson was the best recruiting sergeant for independence since Mar...

By Ian McConnell

He writes in the mither leid, the mother tongue. But nothing his own mum could ever understand.

By Donald Campbell

The colours have been chosen to reflect the deep lochs and vibrant sunsets, diverse wildlife and rocky outcrops, and every stitch will tell a tale of Highland and Islands life down the generations.

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HUNDREDS of patients are becoming critically ill while waiting hours for an ambulance, according to figures obtained by the Herald on Sunday.

“TREACHERY with a smile on its face.” Margaret Thatcher’s famous line after she was toppled by her once true colleagues is being echoed by those ultra-loyalists bemoaning the downfall of their hero Boris Johnson.

Dr Suzanne Zeedyk is Scotland’s leading authority on Boarding School Syndrome – a condition which turns children into adults devoid of empathy and a risk to others. If someone in power has the syndrome then they could cause untold suffering to so...

By Kathleen Nutt

By William Walker

AND so, now we know, the King – the man whose childhood dream was to become King of the World, had such a vacancy actually existed – is dead, long live the King.

MONDAY night, February 12, 1979. Prime Minister James Callaghan, who had been buffeted by a relentless wave of industrial action in the Winter of Discontent, has made his way to the McLellan Galleries in Glasgow. He tells a packed hall that the peopl...

There is something very Alice in Wonderland about the eccentric yew topiary of Crathes. It’s as if these “egg and cup” forms were meant to be precise geometrical shapes but, out of some will of their own, grew distorted. They are also one of th...

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THE Great Outdoors of Scotland was originally invented because the umbrella industry was going into steep decline, with potential customers explaining to despairing salesmen: “I’m afraid I can’t buy any more of your cloth-covered hingmies with ...

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