What is it about tea that brings out the worst in people? Not those who drink it. Those who sell it. In Scotland, the ...

AN UNHAPPY anniversary to Keir Starmer, with the Prime Minister’s first year in office ending much as it began – with an ...

Labour has endured a difficult year in office since returning to power at Westminster for the first time since 2010. But how ...

Amelia Loulli has won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2025, supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies and run ...

In Alistair Grant’s article “Scotland's seagulls: A menace or Misunderstood?” I read, with incredulity, the expert Kirsty ...

Monaghan, cornered inside his bar moments after Lyons Jnr was shot dead, started selling Walkers Crisps, Weetabix, Colman’s ...

The Scotsman’s round-up of life in Scotland today dismays reader Yesterday (25 June) we had another edition of The Scotsman ...

Nicola Sturgeon ’s former chief of staff has been hired as a director of the book festival where the ex-First Minister will be one of the most high-profile speakers. Liz Lloyd has been taken on ...

Nicola Sturgeon has accused actor Rupert Everett of resorting to “deeply misogynistic tropes” after the Shrek star described the former first minister as a “witch”.

A furious Nicola Sturgeon has blasted back at a Hollywood actor after he referred to her a "witch" while claiming she ruined the arts sector in Scotland. British actor Rupert Everett, 66 ...

NICOLA Sturgeon will host an event in Glasgow for her upcoming memoir, Frankly. The former First Minister will take part in Nicola Sturgeon: In Conversation at Glasgow's University Union's Debating ...

According to Rupert Everett, he once loved Nicola but now cannot bear her. The reason: she ruined the arts in Scotland. Before Sturgeon, the… ...