Independent advisers said the justice secretary had made two errors but a sanction beyond a reprove was not needed ...

They don’t make prisons like they used to. Back when the Victorians were building their monuments to incarceration the focus was very much on punishment, the idea being that cramped cells and limited ...

Over the last week accounts on the social media platform X have asked the AI chatbot to edit images of women to appear ...

First Minister John Swinney has suggested that Donald Trump breached international law with the arrest of Venezuela’s Nicolas ...

The first minister is proposing Monday 15 June be designated a holiday, which is the day after Scotland’s first game ...

What should have then been a simple apology and a correction of the official record became an exercise in obfuscation, ...

As the clock struck ten o’clock on the night of the general election, many were shocked by the exit poll. Suggestions Labour would win 410 seats stole the headlines. However, further down another big ...

A Green councillor has been cleared of breaching a code of conduct by calling gender-critical people “Nazis”. Councillor Elaine Gallagher said “extremists” had attended a Let Women Speak rally in the ...

It’s been three years since the Scottish Government last updated its digital strategy. A knee-jerk reaction to the Covid pandemic, it was drawn up to ensure everyone in Scotland had “the skills, ...

Marion Calder, Susan Smith and Trina Budge are an unlikely trio of radicals. We are sitting in Marion’s Morningside flat with its stripped pine floors, saggy sofas and the ubiquitous Edinburgh paper ...

Sir David Steel, the Scottish Parliament’s first presiding officer, is something of an expert in the parliament building. Although he never actually worked in it – his entire term in the speaker’s ...