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File photograph of the interior of Queen Street train station, Glasgow by Colin Mearns

Cutting fares must be the beginning of major public transport reform

Actor Tom Hanks recently had to warn fans about an AI imitation

COMMENT Can Hollywood actors stand firm as AI threatens to rob them of roles?

File photograph of Suella Braverman

COMMENT Suella Braverman's comments about immigrants show the dark road UK is going down

Wind turbine at the Whitelee windfarm

COMMENT Perfect storm hits Highland energy costs

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Poet Gerda Stevenson's newest book is called Tomorrow's Feast

ESSAY These four poems show remarkable range of Scottish writer Gerda Stevenson

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Rutherglen high street

PROFILE Rutherglen and Hamilton West: Everything you need to know about the constituency

What would Winston Churchill make of Rishi Sunak?

COMMENT The ghosts of politics past deliver their verdict on Rishi Sunak's government

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Can Fair Work Agreements really improve the lot of workers, asks Professor Gregor Gall

COMMENT Fair Pay Agreements could usher in a new era of progress for workers

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Hemp can be used for a wide variety of products - from food and textiles to medicine and cosmetics

COMMENT 'The most important crop in Scotland': Why hemp is coming to your kitchen

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Laurence Fox's suspension may just be start if GB News wants to become a serious broadcaster, writes Kirsty Strickland

COMMENT The time has come for GB News to decide if it wants to be serious broadcaster

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Neale Hanvey claims the Hate Crime Act will criminalise activists who identify as same-sex attracted

COMMENT Neale Hanvey: The Hate Crime Act should deeply worry all women and LGB people

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The use of 'remote' to describe places where people live does a disservice to islanders

COMMENT Rhoda Meek: Where and what should be defined as ‘remote’ is key for rural Scots

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The role of trade unions is crucial to what the independence movement is looking to achieve

COMMENT Trade unions are central to the case for Scottish independence

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The justice reforms begun stage 1 scrutiny by MSPs this week

ANALYSIS Long road ahead for Scotland's justice reforms with some changes to be contested

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The UK's secret polling on the Union deserves to see the light of day, writes Tommy Sheppard

COMMENT Tommy Sheppard: The big questions around our fight to see UK’s polling on the Union

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Sovereignty can be Scotland's way forward in tackling a myriad of complex problems, writes Stuart Nicolson

COMMENT Stuart Nicolson: Securing independence can help Scotland tackle global problems

United Kingdom: Map of the World showing the British Empire highlighted in red, London, 1886

COMMENT Westminster now abhors immigration but the British Empire loved it

The National Galleries of Scotland opened its doors and welcomed the public to the new Scottish Galleries yesterday

COMMENT Murray Pittock: New Scottish Galleries are a strong answer to critics

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Rishi Sunak's credibility in Scotland is falling by the day, writes Stuart Cosgrove

COMMENT Stuart Cosgrove: The HS2 fiasco blows a hole in the idea that Westminster knows best

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There is a moral gulf between Holyrood and Westminster, writes Ruth Wishart

COMMENT Ruth Wishart: The language of Westminster is increasingly incomprehensible to Scots

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A few years ago, I did consciously dial-down my overall news consumption

COMMENT ‘News avoiders’ get the blame but there is a bigger story we must try to uncover

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Could it be that Levelling Up is nothing but blatant cronyism?

COMMENT Levelling Up reveals UK’s funding model as entirely botched

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Fergus Ewing during First Minster's Questions at the Scottish Parliament

COMMENT Fergus Ewing is a formidable politician but here’s what he needs to remember

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Iona Fyfe, photographed for The National by Colin Mearns

COMMENT Iona Fyfe: Don't call me a traitor for criticising Scottish art funding cuts

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School support staff members of Unison during a rally outside the Scottish Parliament

COMMENT Roz Foyer: Debunking this week's poisonous, nonsense attack on Unison

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Emma Roddick is this week's Holyrood Weekly guest

PODCAST Migrants minister Emma Roddick on Suella Braverman and the hostile environment

Protesters demonstrate against the UK Government decision to grant consent for the controversial Rosebank offshore development

COMMENT Lorna Slater: Climate vandal Rishi Sunak is making reckless choices

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One of the UK's four nuclear warhead-carrying submarines at Faslane, west of Glasgow

COMMENT Scottish independence would end the UK’s nuclear delusion

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Conference motion will plot the path that can lead us
to independence

Comment Conference motion will plot the path that can lead us to independence

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The biggest menace in Westminster?

COMMENT The real menace is at Westminster and it’s an insidious attempt to wipe out Scotland

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Professor Richard Murphy writes about inheritance tax

COMMENT What I learned from arguing with a Tory about inheritance tax live on the radio

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Standing for election has never been a particularly easy endeavour, but for women in Scotland in 2023 – it’s seldom been harder

COMMENT Kelly Given: Women’s voices are being stifled by political inaction

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Protesters demonstrate against the UK Government decision to grant consent for the controversial Rosebank offshore development off Shetland

COMMENT Green light for oil field won't make a difference when it comes to fuel security

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Home Secretary Suella Braverman talks to Drug Enforcement Agents during a visit to the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) in Baltimore, Maryland

COMMENT Braverman’s real danger is as a political ‘pilot fish’ for the far-right

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Let’s be a country of Kenmure Street; not Downing Street

COMMENT Let’s never allow the Tories to plunge us into the anti-migrant cesspit

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The Scottish Government should have backed the Rosebank development years ago, writes Chris McEleny

COMMENT Chris McEleny: We can't be embarrassed to say 'It's Scotland's Oil' to Rishi Sunak

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Abstentionism must be left on the table as an option for the SNP, writes Jim Fairlie

COMMENT Jim Fairlie: The SNP shouldn't be afraid of embracing abstentionism at Westminster

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Many Gaelic advocates have recently placed hope in Gaelic Medium Education (GME)

COMMENT Can Gaelic medium education pave the way for a revival? Lessons from Ireland

Population decline isn’t just a question of numbers, it will directly increase poverty

COMMENT Tories’ irrational immigration policy ignores Scotland’s ever-growing need

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Sunak's approach to environmental concerns has been notably lacklustre

COMMENT Sunak’s delaying of difficult choices now only means harder ones later

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Making a 'Nightmare 10' list would have been useful three decades ago

newsletter The 10 steps to create an economic, cost of living, banking and environmental crisis

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School support workers, who are members of Unison, on the picket line at Trinity Primary School in Edinburgh

COMMENT As the 2014 independence vote proved, trade unions are not Labour sock puppets

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Labour Leader Keir Starmer

COMMENT Shona Craven: Are Labour bold enough to defend a ‘hated’ tax?

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More likely a Tory Party in opposition will go further into the populist bunker

COMMENT Death of Tory Britain is approaching – but with that comes danger

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Our coastal communities are diverse, each with unique strengths and challenges

COMMENT Karen Adam: Let's give our vital coastal communities our support

Latest oil prices show we must be cannier about move to net zero

COMMENT George Kerevan: Latest oil prices show we must be cannier about move to net zero

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What should a Scottish Bill of Rights look like?

COMMENT We must be brave when it comes to creating a Scottish Bill of Rights

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Johanna Baxter is the head of local government for Unison Scotland

COMMENT It’s nonsense to suggest Unison strike is linked to party bias

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Grant Shapps tried to defend the PM's U-turn in a BBC interview on Sunday

COMMENT Kirsty Strickland: Sunak and Shapps give a taste of what's next for the Tories

Julian Assange is guilty only of exposing war crimes, writes Kenny MacAskill

COMMENT Kenny MacAskill: The UK Government dare not speak about Julian Assange

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Football is being transformed by the sums of money on display, writes Stuart Cosgrove

COMMENT Stuart Cosgrove: Scottish football’s fight for relevance in the era of big finance

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Keeping the cultural soul of Gaelic alive is about more than just teaching people the language, writes Rhoda Meek

COMMENT Rhoda Meek: Gaelic can be saved as a language but saving its soul will be harder

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A Ukrainian servicemen fires a machine gun towards Russian positions near Andriivka, Donetsk

WAR IN UKRAINE David Pratt: Ukraine's key battle lies in retaining support from allies

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Rupert Murdoch announced he will step down as chairman of News Corp and the Fox Corporation

COMMENT How the never-ending Murdoch empire polluted our discourse and our culture

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