So football isn’t coming home after all. Nevertheless, across the UK, or at least in parts of Scotland and Wales, the celebrations will go on. Social...
Such badinage is part of any tournament tapestry. And yet the lighter teasing still mingles with some outright mean-mindedness. As an illustration, it is worth watching...
Generous Scottish tax-payers are to spend £2 million on a pilot scheme to give free bus travel to asylum seekers. The largesse is being provided by...
Of all the roles I have filled since leaving parliament eight years ago, few gave me greater pleasure than working alongside the Secretary of State for...
During the Covid lockdown, the sleeper was cancelled. In April 2021 myself and a colleague were offered the chance to volunteer for a special project on...
It was all about what Thatcher did to Scotland in the 1980s, which led to Ross describing as “absurd” the idea that everything that’s now wrong...
MARTEL MAXWELL: Tartan Army made Scotland proud Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. Caret...
For more than a decade, we’ve all had to put up with the SNP running down our economy and public services. We’ve had to watch Alex...
JIM SPENCE: Scotland, sun stroke and tennis with DUFC legend Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal...
MY dad Patrick Gerald McKinstry’s family was from West Belfast. His dad Danny McKinstry moved to Scotland in the 1920s in search of work — he...
There is another general election campaign going on in Britain just now and, depending on your point of view, it’s happily devoid of the supposed glamour...
John Swinney had an uncertain start to the general election campaign. While his more sure-footed predecessors (well, perhaps not Humza Yousaf, then) would have pretended to...