Opinions

Only four weeks ago I wrote about the impact of the SNP’s police budget raids, how repeated cost cutting had slashed the number of front-line officers and was...

Opinion is divided on the benefits and dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) but it’s here to stay and by calling this week’s global summit at Bletchley Park...

With an unfunded Council Tax freeze and a whole splurge of spending promises in Humza Yousaf’s conference speech apparently blocked by the civil servants for...

What were you doing yesterday? At work as normal, occupying the kids at half-term, getting the shopping in? What you weren’t doing was voting in the second...

Anyone who has arrived at the ASDA at Chesser for a quick evening shop will know it can sometimes be an uncomfortable experience passing groups of intimidating...

​One thing we didn’t need to learn from Lord Hardie’s report into the Edinburgh tram fiasco is if you don’t live near the line then your benefit is virtually...

One benefit of being an MSP is use of Holyrood’s underground car park, but living on the edge of Edinburgh and with regular appointments across Lothian, it’s no...

Throughout my time as an Edinburgh councillor during the often bitter debate about the completion of the tram line to Newhaven, the administration repeatedly...

Ask anyone living in Edinburgh to point out a dangerous pavement, or jagged pothole in a cracked road which threatens suspensions and sends shockwaves up the...