It’s hard to write an obituary for someone you can’t quite believe is dead. But we must look the truth in the eyes, and it is ...

When times are quiet in Scottish politics, as they currently are, our favourite genre of story is “mainstream press belatedly ...

Swinney was grinning like a yokel at the first meeting of the “Council Of The Nations And Regions”, held in Edinburgh but ...

Just a quick bit of housekeeping here with regard to the new Wings comments section, which offers far more functionality but ...

While we get on with some tinkering behind the scenes in the absence of any Scottish political news – we have an exciting new comment system and the Contact form finally works again! – readers may ...

As we write this article, Sandy Brindley (on the left of the picture below) is still in post as the CEO of Rape Crisis Scotland. For as long as that remains the case, rape victims in Scotland will not ...

Let us not be ungracious about the use of the term “leading figures” here. But equally, let’s not waste too much attention. The University Of Glasgow’s Centre For Public Policy yesterday put out a ...

Don’t say we don’t tell you, readers. Because we do tell you. We told you a year and a quarter ago. (Remember that time when Humza Yousaf was First Minister? It happened, honestly.) We told you again ...

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Earlier today we heard from the SNP’s depute leader Keith Brown that the party now accepts there will never be another UK-sanctioned independence referendum. And this afternoon in the chamber the SNP ...

We’ll be honest, folks, we’re not 100% sure this is how you build unity. But what uplifting and powerful alliances might we be missing out on? “A few thousand”, eh? We were a bit surprised on ...