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A Glasgow Caledonian University group spearheaded campaigning efforts for change

Andrew Tickell: Coverage is missing mark on anonymity ‘rights’ of sex crime victims
MANY of you will have heard the story of Ellie Wilson on Scottish television and radio in recent weeks. The former University of Glasgow student

The Scottish Parliament passed the Hunting With Dogs (Scotland) Bill

COMMENT Kevin McKenna: Bill bemusement and a brick wall’s front-row seat

Stephen Noon says the SNP need to move on from being 'the 45'

EXCLUSIVE The SNP need to move on from the mindset of being ‘the 45’

The British state hangs by a thread

COMMENT The weak spot in the British state has been known for a long time

Stephen Flynn has shown how to turn up the heat on the Tories

COMMENT Stephen Flynn has set the tone for how to turn up heat on Conservatives

Suella Braverman confirmed last week she had ditched many of the recommendations made by those who examined the disgraceful Windrush debacle

COMMENT Ruth Wishart: Entitled Tory inequity is in clear view no matter where you turn

Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan star in The Banshees of Inisherin

COMMENT Mike Small: We must turn lens on ourselves as Irish talent steals the show at Oscars

The younger generations are drinking less alcohol than those that came before them

COMMENT Will next generation of Yes-backing, booze-shunning Scots herald a cultural shift?

Shoppers walk past a 'Powered By Levelling Up' sign put up by Rishi Sunak and his Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt

COMMENT The UK Government has proved it doesn’t give a damn about ‘levelling up’

NHS staff have been pushed to the limit as a 'perfect storm' of pressures puts the health service in crisis

COMMENT With the NHS in crisis, all private finance contracts must be terminated NOW

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter is referenced by a piece of street art in Edinburgh

COMMENT Michael Russell: Being suspended from Twitter was like watching my own funeral

Money has at the same time captivated and appalled economists for centuries

COMMENT Robbie Mochrie: Financial crash of 2008 showed no one had a clue about value

Rumours of students identifying as cats have been rife from the US to Scotland

REAL SCOTTISH POLITICS Why 'Scottish kids identifying as cats' is much more than a harmless rumour

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The National Grassroots The National unveils 'Indy Activist of the Year' award in tribute to campaigner

BBC chairman Richard Sharp was dining privately with Boris Johnson months after taking on the role

comment BBC chairman’s ties with Boris Johnson are an inevitable stain on the broadcaster

A prisoner in a cell at Cornton Vale, Scotland's only female prison

COMMENT Joanna Cherry: The question of trans people and Scotland's jails is far from answered

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack invoked a never-before-used power to block Scotland's gender reform from becoming law

COMMENT UK Government's gender bill block has exposed tensions in the Union

The Tory government plans to legalise genetically edited foods

COMMENT Scotland's parliament is left at the mercy of the Tory government

A coronation is demanded only by the ego of King Charles #NotMySpaniel

COMMENT Here's what broadcasters won't tell you about King Charles's coronation

Nadhim Zahawi paid a penalty of more than £1 million after his tax affairs were probed by HMRC

COMMENT Richard Murphy: Did Nadhim Zahawi really pay a £1m tax penalty for 'carelessness'?

Anas Sarwar and Nicola Sturgeon at FMQs

FMQS SKETCH Anas Sarwar treats First Minister like his own personal Alexa at FMQs - and why not?

We should applaud those know their worth and refuse to accept abuse as part of workplace culture

COMMENT 'I deserve better': Paying your dues should not mean accepting abuse

Scotland is a visibly more self-confident place than it was, says Alasdair Allan

Scotland's Confidence From cringe to confidence: The Scottish Cringe is in long-term decline

A Ukrainian soldier looks out of an APC during combat training in Zaporizhzhia region

COMMENT It’s not the West’s prerogative to tell Ukraine to concede territory for peace

Sanjeev Mann has launched a petition to improve accessibility in music venues

COMMENT Meet the DJ trying to make nightlife accessible for disabled Scots

The humble neep is a root vegetable many of us scarcely look twice at the rest of the year

COMMENT Don't overlook the miracle of the modern neep this Burns Night

Scotland voted comprehensively to remain in the EU, but was forced to leave anyway

COMMENT Alyn Smith: UK has to get real as the EU is sick of its nonsense

Nadhim Zahawi has faced calls to quit as Tory chairman after his tax affairs were scrutinised

COMMENT Kevin McKenna: Do any multi-millionaire Tories use UK banks like the rest of us?

Scots poet Robbie Burns in his cottage composing 'The Cotter's Saturday Night'

COMMENT Rabbie’s Bairns: Scottish champion of liberty has enthralled generations

Supermarket branding would benefit from a lesson in semiotics

COMMENT Supermarket branding would benefit from a lesson in semiotics

A rally for trans rights and against the UK Government's use of Section 35. Photo by Colin Mearns

COMMENT Gender reform block shows independence is about liberty and equality

The UK Government is looking to curtail workers' right to strike

COMMENT Human rights are under attack in the UK. A written constitution could help

It will soon be illegal for people under 18 to get married in England, but not in Scotland

COMMENT Do claims of a culture war in the UK really stand up to scrutiny?

Tom Nairn at home by Stewart Attwood

COMMENT SNP leadership should step up to ensure Tom Nairn's legacy is remembered

A majority of Scots do not think the BBC reported accurately on the effects of Brexit, a poll found

COMMENT Wee Ginger Dug: What will it take for the BBC to acknowledge its issues and change?

Protesters outside Downing Street, London, during the nurses strike, against the Bill on minimum service levels during strikes.

COMMENT Why is arbitration not being used to resolve the ongoing strikes?

The Tory party chairman's position is

COMMENT Rishi Sunak still has questions to answer over the Nadhim Zahawi taxes affair

A protestor holds up a flag that reads

COMMENT Fascism has already dug into the fabric of UK and the Tories don't seem to care

Tom Nairn at home by Stewart Attwood

COMMENT The Yes movement has lost one of its best and brightest advocates in Tom Nairn

Andrew doesn't deserve the title of the Earl of Inverness

COMMENT Prince Andrew represents no one in Inverness - his Scottish title must go

Nadhim Zahawi arrives in Downing Street ahead of a Cabinet meeting

COMMENT The Tories are corrupt, clueless, careless and reckless – and overruling you

Neurodiversity will frame debates, disputes and legislation in the decades to come

COMMENT Stuart Cosgrove: Time has come for Scotland's pioneering autism role

The corruption surrounding the allocation of levelling up funds should surprise no-one in Britain

COMMENT Westminster's Levelling Up funding an insult to Scotland

Free the Leopards: protesters gathered outside the Chancellery in Germany to demand Chancellor Olaf Scholz send Leopard tanks to help Ukraine fight the war against Russia

COMMENT David Pratt: The difference Germany could make to Ukraine with its tanks

With Liz Truss’s refusal to meet with Nicola Sturgeon and Rishi Sunak now making up for it with a meal and rictus smiles all round, it’s only a matter of time before the English-Scottish olive branch snaps

COMMENT Andrew Tickell: Section 35 risks a bonfire of Holyrood legislation

The risible Scottish Secretary Alister Jack is a walking anachronism if ever there was one

COMMENT Ruth Wishart: Section 35 move by Tories is a direct assault on Holyrood

BBC Scotland's Pacific Quay office

COMMENT Radio Scotland needs saved – but football should be outsourced

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt (left) and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at an event to promote Levelling Up funding last week

COMMENT Levelling Up is Westminster trying to buy us off while trampling over devolution

Beavers are Scotland's secret weapon in rewilding fight

COMMENT Beavers are Scotland's secret weapon in rewilding fight

Michael Russell writes on the latest BBC polling, commissioned by The National

COMMENT Devastating poll should prompt BBC to sit down with critics and listen

'If they get away with overruling the Scottish Parliament this time, who knows what else they will do'

COMMENT Mhairi Black: UK is spitting directly in the face of devolution process

Robin Angus died last May, but his legacy will live on

COMMENT Remembering Robin Angus: Complex, admired and rich – like a good malt

The amount of BBC Radio Scotland’s factual, non-news programming is tiny – what does get made is shunted onto digital and podcast, and seems to be mostly about murdurr and fitba

COMMENT Pat Kane: Culture cuts at BBC Radio Scotland speak to a much deeper malaise

The Disruption Assembly by David Octavius Hill

COMMENT Michael Russell: Disruption and the power of right over might of Section 35