Opinions

In case anyone has forgotten, there’s an election this year and I’m very proud to be a candidate in the constituency where I was born and went to school. ​I don...

Even when events look like they are going only one way, it’s pointless to try to predict when to expect the next big moment in Scottish politics because so...

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read the manufactured outrage of both First Minister Humza Yousaf and justice secretary Angela Constance after the...

In parliament debates and council meetings we hear a lot about “joined-up thinking” and “collaborative approaches” and of course plans are always “holistic” and...

If anyone wants to know why Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act has been an unmitigated disaster, they should speak to the women who attended the Let Women Speak...

Crisis? What crisis? Older readers may remember how the words attributed to Prime Minister Jim Callaghan dogged him as the British economy crashed in the late...

Not for the first time, something very strange has been going on in the City of Edinburgh Council’s education department, but this time the implications go well...

The continued slide in standards in our schools is not news, but a depressing slew of Scottish Government statistics this week provides plenty of evidence for...

Most mums know instinctively when something isn’t quite right with their babies, and as a nurse Bernadette Phillips was sure her six-month-old son Nathaniel...