If politicians are not accountable to the public, then surely their tax rises become legalised theft, suggests Brian Monteith ...

The backbenchers now know the power they wield. Alongside a wealth tax, they are eyeing up policies including scrapping the ...

When Dokgo, a homeless Korean man, finds and wallet he returns it to its owner, Mrs Yeom, who runs a convenience store. Thus begins an ...

Scottish ministers are being accused of “taking a wrecking ball” to the North Sea oil and gas industry after a new report ...

Latest report on government-backed scheme finds it also created a further 110 jobs and leveraged £30m from the private sector ...

A Scottish Government energy fund has been attacked after a report found just 120 jobs have been saved in the sector despite a £43m spend.

As the birth rate continues to fall, Helen Taylor examines the bittersweet reality of a growing older without children ...

KENNY MacAskill has accused Nicola Sturgeon of presiding over a “conspiracy to do down Alex Salmond ”. The Alba Party leader ...

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

Peter Murrell is the SNP 's former chief executive from 1999 to 2023. The 60-year-old was responsible for the day-to-day ...

Those were the heady days in the wake of the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, and we were full of optimism. I burnt ...

ALEX Salmond was a former first minister of Scotland who led the SNP twice, from 1990 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2014. He first ...