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ANALYSIS Is the Scottish media ready for an independence referendum?

In BBC thriller The Capture, a politician acting against the national interest is suspicious

COMMENT Shona Craven: The reality of Tory incompetence is now stranger than fiction

Having good relationships builds trust and can open people’s minds to the Yes message

comment The good conduct of supporters will be crucial to the success of the Yes campaign

The City of London is disconnected from the real economy of business and commerce

COMMENT Toxic Tory groupthink has to be driven out if we are to change the UK

In Scotland, Kurdish people and the Kurdish community have been contributing to culture, art, and music

comment History has repeated itself as the Kurds have once again been betrayed

Douglas Ross has been cruelly exposed by his own party as a political lightweight

comment Wee Ginger Dug: Douglas Ross's latest U-turn exposes him as a complete irrelevance

Liz Truss on the first day of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham

COMMENT Conference speech now truly make or break for hapless Truss

The war in Ukraine has sparked fears that Putin could resort to using nuclear weapons

COMMENT Nuclear war is now a serious possibility – how can we stop it?

Nicola Sturgeon after addressing a Climate Action Week National School Assembly at St Albert's Primary School in Pollokshields, Glasgow

COMMENT Racist abuse of schoolchildren is new low for Scotland's political culture

The Royal Research Ship (RRS) Discovery in Dundee

FAREWELL Roxanne Sorooshian: Signing off after 30 years of discovery in journalism

Glasgow's Robert Cameron won £1m on the lottery thanks to the 'bonus ball' - but the term has come to mean something else in Scotland's biggest city

DIARY Kevin McKenna's Week: How enterprising Glaswegians are making an extra penny

'It is a sign of how extreme this Tory government is that it has effectively radicalised ornithology'

COMMENT Liz Truss, Brexit, and Tory Britain’s attack on nature itself

The population in areas such as Tarbert in Argyll and Bute has been falling for many years

COMMENT Why we must build our way to success - and how Scotland’s planners lost the plot

Mark Lawrenson left the BBC with a full-on howl, resentful at almost everything that the BBC has done to modernise

COMMENT Can anyone leave the BBC without slapping back at the corporation?

Liz Truss's Cabinet has done nothing but steer the UK into crisis

COMMENT With a failing UK descending still further into chaos, what should you do?

Concert by Dave Milligan and Karine Polwart was a ‘fesitval highlight’

REVIEW This Moray festival exemplifies the cultural health of the Highlands

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (right) and his UK party boss Keir Starmer

COMMENT Ruth Wishart: SNP must heed the lessons of Labour's spectacular fall from grace

Prime Minister Liz Truss is crashing the UK economy and it is the poor who will suffer most

COMMENT Andrew Tickell: Tories ditch pretence of levelling up in favour of blatant cruelty

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng may have sparked a reconfiguration

COMMENT Opinions shift ... but Scotland’s place in Europe is resonating

The Tory poll collapse over the last week has revealed a deep thirst for a return to societal balance

COMMENT Pat Kane: We cannot allow ourselves to be blinded by hate for our political rivals

Liz Truss's Nasty Party are nosediving in the polls

COMMENT What comes next amid Tory implosion? – The REAL Scottish Politics

Steps need to be taken in Parliament to reverse some of the most disgustingly greedy and insane aspects of the Chancellor’s plans – and then we need a General Election to get rid of the Tories

COMMENT Joanna Cherry: This is the time to forge a new social and economic vision for Scotland

It is hard to overstate just how disastrous the first month of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s tenure has been

COMMENT Ross Greer: Tory chaos has wrecked the Union’s credibility

Gordon Gecko’s ‘Greed is good’ maxim could be engraved on the door of 10 Downing Street, so central is the idea to Truss’s government

COMMENT Michael Russell: Liz Truss’s Tories don’t care that greedy Gekko was the bad guy

Prime Minister Liz Truss was unable to defend her decisions when questioned by local radio stations yesterday

COMMENT Richard Walker: Time to get mad as hell and break free from Truss and her cronies

Kaye Adams would have given Liz Truss a far easier time of it

COMMENT Liz Truss will wish she had been on Call Kaye – The REAL Scottish Politics

'I never thought she and Kwasi Kwarteng would be as bad as it turns out they are intent on being'

comment Richard Murphy: This is the worst economic crisis of my lifetime - here's how we got here

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have become figures of worldwide derision

The Jouker Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng humiliated on world stage by The Economist

Protests against the Iranian regime come amid the rise of far-right governments across the world

COMMENT David Pratt: World on the brink as regimes teeter and far-right gains power in Europe

The Labour Party conference in Liverpool was delighted with Keir Starmer’s plans for a Great British Energy company

COMMENT Lesley Riddoch: SNP must prepare to react to the new reality – Labour in the ascendancy

Far from building up the UK economy, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng are tearing it down

COMMENT PM and Chancellor AWOL as Tories wreck economy - The REAL Scottish Politics

Roddy Dunlop KC was among those to weigh in

COMMENT Kevin McKenna: Mini budget has led to a repugnant Flight of the Chiels by Scotland’s rich

Not content with Northern Ireland, Liz Truss wants to break the law in the Middle East too

COMMENT Alyn Smith: Liz Truss looks set to inflame tensions in Middle East

The influence of Crispin Odey looms large over the catastrophic Tories

COMMENT Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: Odious hedge fund boss is a symptom, not the cause of this crisis

The mandate for Scottish independence must be respected

COMMENT Supreme Court indy ruling could be final death knell for Union - The REAL Scottish Politics

Is Ireland's example of a presidential republic one we should follow?

comment It's time for us to declare a republic - but what kind should we be?

After the Second World War, price controls were extensive on basic food commodities

comment Price controls could offer a way out of the cost-of-living crisis

One of the defining points of premierships is to set an agenda for the first 100 days. It is unclear whether Liz Truss will actually reach that milestone

COMMENT Trussonomics exposes the political and institutional limitations of devolution

Liz Truss has gone from disaster to disaster

COMMENT PM's clown car is already losing wheels – The REAL Scottish Politics

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget risks accelerating inflation by pumping up demand

comment George Kerevan: What is shorting the pound, and what do the Tories have to do with it?

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s plans must be met with action

COMMENT Direct action required to deal with Liz Truss’s Tories, not mere hand-wringing

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng once worked for one of the UK’s top hedge funds

comment George Kerevan: The plunging pound shows why an indy Scotland needs to ditch sterling

Prime Minister Liz Truss is keen to make her mark – but her priorities are all wrong

comment Kirsty Strickland: This was more like a bomb than a mini-budget

Cuts in the 1960s left communities cut off from the network – with some having to travel 40 miles to their nearest train station

comment The whole of Scotland could benefit if we rerail the north-east

Following pressure from the Arran Development Trust, North Ayrshire Council has recently built 34 new affordable homes in Brodick, the first in a generation.

comment Here's what we are doing to tackle our island's housing crisis

Students these days don't have it easy, either

COMMENT Student digs and the perils of battling the SAS

Flags of Malta around the Malta Independence Monument in Valletta

COMMENT Malta changed its mind on independence – Scotland can too

The House of Lords is facing being ‘considered’ for abolition by the Labour Party

COMMENT Ruth Wishart: Scotland must look at how a revised second chamber would work

Kwasi Kwarteng delivered his mini-Budget tailor-made for the 600,000 richest people in the UK

COMMENT Andrew Tickell: The UK Chancellor is selling a lie

Boris Johnson appears poised to elevate Nadine Dorries to the House of Lords

COMMENT Ennobling of ridiculous Nadine Dorries should be trigger for Lords reform

Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a mini-budget that will prove a disaster for the UK’s poorest

COMMENT Pomp and pageantry mask the Union’s death throes

Liz Truss following the announcement that she is the new Conservative party leader, and will become the next Prime Minister.

Letters Welcome to a new Grey Age of war, strife, debt and hunger

Play – and not just in humans – happens because we have to rehearse our survival skills.

comment Pat Kane: Let the children play and leave formal learning until just a bit later