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Richard Leonard vows: We won’t repeat election mistake

Politics

Jim Murphy says Gordon Brown vetoed the idea for a 2008 referendum. Photograph: Neil Hanna

Jim Murphy wanted Labour indyref in 2008 but was blocked by Gordon Brown

General Election

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says the SNP is open to forming a coalition with opposition parties. Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

Nicola Sturgeon ready to form SNP-Labour coalition if snap general election called

News

Stacey Dooley's Instagram picture reveals much about Comic Relief's enduring colonialism.

Dani Garavelli: Celebrities like Stacey Dooley should think twice about Comic Relief

Opinion

SNP plans for post-independence Scottish currency branded a ‘desperate act’

General Election

John Swinney wants schools grading system scrapped to stem ‘culture of fear’ among Scots teachers

Education

US federal agents on hunt for Scottish man who ‘faked own death’ in California

News

Heartbroken mum to set up action group after tot’s tragic cancer death

News

The legacy of a Scottish-born psychiatrist whose 'mind control and torture' research and experiments was covertly sponsored by the CIA and later used against political prisoners worldwide including in Northern Ireland and Guantanamo Bay, is to explored in the premiere of 'Do No Harm' at the Glasgow Film Festival.

Scottish doctor’s cruel Guantanamo Bay legacy

Politics

Why no-deal Brexit is a threat to Scottish independence – Joyce McMillan
Joyce McMillan

Politics More Politics >>

Jim Murphy says Gordon Brown vetoed the idea for a 2008 referendum. Photograph: Neil Hanna

Jim Murphy wanted Labour indyref in 2008 but was blocked by Gordon Brown

General Election

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard says the party will focus on social, economic and environmental issues. Photograph: John Devlin

Richard Leonard vows: We won’t repeat election mistake

Politics

Labour's Baroness Bryan of Partick asks what assessment the government has made of the process for awarding complex warship building in the UK, and how this will affect the UK shipbuilding industry.

‘Slow crisis’ warning over lack of progress on constitutional reform

Politics

Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson is now engaged in a strategy of grinding passive aggression and Jeremy Corbyn can't do anything but take it. Photograph: PA

Euan McColm: Why Tom Watson stands the best chance of saving the Labour Party

Opinion

Scottish Secretary David Mundell. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Brexit: David Mundell and Jackson Carlaw urge backing for PM’s deal to leave EU

Politics

File image - currency.

Currency comes with ‘opportunities’ and ‘risks’ - Graeme Roy

General Election

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says the SNP is open to forming a coalition with opposition parties. Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

Nicola Sturgeon ready to form SNP-Labour coalition if snap general election called

News

Brian Wilson: Football alone doesn’t cause and can’t cure sectarianism

Opinion

Donald Trump’s trade deal plan shows weakness of Brexit Britain – leader comment

Opinion

Heartbroken mum to set up action group after tot’s tragic cancer death

News

A tax on women just for being women is plain wrong – Christine Jardine

Opinion

Transport More Transport >>

The council is set to hand out contracts for the new tram extension before ratification.

Edinburgh Council to clear £128m Newhaven tram line contracts before final OK

Transport

The 78-year-old is being treated in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley. Picture: PA

Elderly woman suffers head injury in bus incident

Transport

The Edinburgh showroom is expected to be retained. Picture: TSPL

Tesla to switch to online-only sales but Edinburgh showroom expected to remain

Transport

Tesla's showroom in Edinburgh will be spared a cost-cutting cull (Picture: Ian Georgeson)

Tesla: Would you spend £33k in a minute on a smartphone? – leader comment

Opinion

Plans to restore hidden platform beneath Glasgow Central ‘on right track’, say Network Rail

Transport

One of UK’s greatest stations should make more of its hidden wonders – Alastair Dalton

Opinion

Number of rail journeys between Scotland and England rises to 9.6 million

News

Glasgow Airport to lose one million passengers

Transport

Education More Education >>

The actor Christopher Lee, seen here as Saruman in Lord of the Rings, could speak English, Italian, French, Spanish and German ' and also had some Swedish, Russian and Greek (Picture: Pierre Vinet/AP)

Why English-speakers have an unpleasant arrogance – Jane Bradley

Opinion

Deputy First Minister and Education Secretary John Swinney during a visit to his former school, Forrester High School in Edinburgh. Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

John Swinney wants schools grading system scrapped to stem ‘culture of fear’ among Scots teachers

Education

Graduation day outside the McEwan Hall. Picture: TSPL

Thousands of university students could be ‘put off’ Scotland by hard Brexit

General Election

Theresa May has repeatedly refused to rule out a no-deal Brexit (Picture: Francisco Seco/AP)

Brexit: Even Government admits it doesn’t know how bad no-deal would be – leader comment

Opinion

The counting hall at Meadowbank stadium in Edinburgh as the Scottish devolution referendum votes come in, March 1979.

Scotland’s 1979 devolution plans: 40 years on from the ‘Yes’ vote that wasn’t

Education

Brian McFadden's song Irish Son contains a powerful critique of the Catholic Church in Ireland (Picture: Michael Gillen)

I believe in God, but is it just a fairy tale? – Jim Duffy

Opinion

Scottish pupils have the joint greatest level of reading comprehension. Picture: Greg Macvean

Scottish children reading books which are ‘too easy’

Education

YouTube refutes claims Momo ‘suicide game’ has broken into videos

Education

Jonathan Wood: Lack of training in mental health a concern in the classroom

Opinion

Scotland census under fire for sidelining foreign languages

News

Claudia Cavaluzzo: Without input from EU students and staff, we’d live in a much poorer country

Opinion

Environment More Environment >>

The whale was seen dragging the buoy. Pic: contributed

Worrying pictures show humpback whale caught in pot buoy in Firth of Forth

Environment

A fire in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh may have had a devastating impact on the rare bordered brown lacewing (Picture: Alasdair Lemon)

Insects are fleeing uphill as Scotland’s streams get warmer – Suzanne Burgess

Opinion

Tangled whale in the Firth of Forth.

Rescuers trawl for tangled whale in operation which could last months

Environment

Grangemouth oil refinery has long been a central part of the North Sea oil industry (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty)

Independence would help us stop burning ‘Scotland’s oil’ – Joyce McMillan

Opinion

Fears for rare bugs after major wild fire at Edinburgh’s Arthur’s Seat

Environment

Nicola Sturgeon urged to crack down on Scotland’s ‘idiotic’ and ‘wasteful’ packaging

News

MPs debate climate change for the first time in two years – Mel Evans

Opinion

Crowds delighted as humpback whales spotted in Firth of Forth

Environment

Health More Health >>

Landlines are being targetted

Fraudsters turning to landlines and posing as taxman, says HMRC

News

Megan Clarkson

Heartbroken mum to set up action group after tot’s tragic cancer death

News

A woman who carried an artificial heart in a rucksack after her own was removed has died from transplant complications.''Rebecca Henderson, 24, from Bicester.

‘Inspiring’ woman who carried artificial heart in a rucksack dies

News

Megan Clarkson who was diagnosed with cancer. Picture: Contributed

Two-year-old Scots girl who died ‘fobbed off’ numerous times before cancer diagnosed

News

Katherine Behl with daughter Anya, who is 18 months, and father Abhishek. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Scots toddler with one-in-a-million condition hoping for rare gene therapy

News

Peppe Pig is a worldwide phenomenon

YouTube refutes claims Momo ‘suicide game’ has broken into videos

Education

Jonathan Wood, national manager for Scotland and Wales, Place2Be

Jonathan Wood: Lack of training in mental health a concern in the classroom

Opinion

Jade McWilliam’s life shows modern world can be wonderful – leader comment

Opinion

Harry Burns: What the ‘Glasgow Effect’ and ‘deaths of despair’ tell us about austerity

Opinion

Call for overall junk food advert watershed in Scotland

News

Three in four full-time Scots workers see no daylight in winter

Business

UK More UK >>

Monterey County Sheriff's Department Commander John Thornburg speaks about missing Scottish man Kim Gordon

US federal agents on hunt for Scottish man who ‘faked own death’ in California

News

Volvo developed this 'family' of crash-test dummies but other manufacturers designed vehicles based on a model of a man (Picture: PA)

Think society’s not sexist? Crash-test dummies tell different story – Susan Dalgety

Opinion

Tesla's showroom in Edinburgh will be spared a cost-cutting cull (Picture: Ian Georgeson)

Tesla: Would you spend £33k in a minute on a smartphone? – leader comment

Opinion

A fire in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh may have had a devastating impact on the rare bordered brown lacewing (Picture: Alasdair Lemon)

Insects are fleeing uphill as Scotland’s streams get warmer – Suzanne Burgess

Opinion

Why English-speakers have an unpleasant arrogance – Jane Bradley

Opinion

Donald Trump’s trade deal plan shows weakness of Brexit Britain – leader comment

Opinion

Fraudsters turning to landlines and posing as taxman, says HMRC

News

A tax on women just for being women is plain wrong – Christine Jardine

Opinion

Opinion More Opinion >>

Bins not being emptied are a frequent cause for complaint.

James Walker: Don’t suffer in silence – complain to the council

Business

Salt Network members have pledged to reform business practices.

Successful businesses can be a force for good for the rest of the world

Opinion

Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson is now engaged in a strategy of grinding passive aggression and Jeremy Corbyn can't do anything but take it. Photograph: PA

Euan McColm: Why Tom Watson stands the best chance of saving the Labour Party

Opinion

Benny Higgin claims the bank 'will play a critical role in that the Scottish economy is structurally fit for thriving in the 21st century'. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Bill Jamieson: My concerns over new Scottish National Investment Bank

Business

Stacey Dooley's Instagram picture reveals much about Comic Relief's enduring colonialism.

Dani Garavelli: Celebrities like Stacey Dooley should think twice about Comic Relief

Opinion

Millennials are widely regarded as the most technologically-adept generation to come into the workplace, says Starrett. Picture: Contributed

Comment: Millennials can bridge manufacturing skills gap

Opinion

From the Andes, above, to Ardnamurchan, insurers are creating unnecessary stress for people who already have the worry of health problems. Picture: Getty

Time to end ordeal of holiday insurance – Jenny Ross

Opinion

Think society’s not sexist? Crash-test dummies tell different story – Susan Dalgety

Opinion

Brian Wilson: Football alone doesn’t cause and can’t cure sectarianism

Opinion

New BBC Scotland channel must beware parochialism – John McLellan

Opinion

Tesla: Would you spend £33k in a minute on a smartphone? – leader comment

Opinion

World More World >>

Volvo developed this 'family' of crash-test dummies but other manufacturers designed vehicles based on a model of a man (Picture: PA)

Think society’s not sexist? Crash-test dummies tell different story – Susan Dalgety

Opinion

The actor Christopher Lee, seen here as Saruman in Lord of the Rings, could speak English, Italian, French, Spanish and German ' and also had some Swedish, Russian and Greek (Picture: Pierre Vinet/AP)

Why English-speakers have an unpleasant arrogance – Jane Bradley

Opinion

South Korean President Moon Jae-In speaks during the 100th Independence Movement Day ceremony(Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images )

Korea’s Moon vows closer North ties despite summit collapse

World

Indian residents dance and shout slogans at a central market in New Delhi (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)

Pakistan hands over captured Indian pilot in ‘goodwill gesture’

World

Shamima Begum and baby ‘moved from refugee camp’ after receiving death threats

Politics

I believe in God, but is it just a fairy tale? – Jim Duffy

Opinion

Jade McWilliam’s life shows modern world can be wonderful – leader comment

Opinion

Monica Lewinsky: ‘I almost took my own life due to humiliation’

Celebrity

Odd More Odd >>

Scottish shoppers took to social media to express their dismay as it emerged that M&S will not deliver groceries north of the border.

M&S shoppers's reaction: 'Flooding caused by tears in West end and Southside of Glasgow'

Odd

North Ronaldsay sheep. Picture: Wikimedia

Chef James Martin celebrates North Ronaldsay’s seaweed-eating sheep

News

Stock image. A non venemous python hitched a ride from Australia inside a woman's shoe. Picture: Max Pixel

Snake hitches ride from Australia to Scotland in woman’s shoe

Odd

The grandfather's rules ranged from overprotective to opportunistic

Scots woman shares protective grandfather’s ‘rules' for dating granddaughter

News

Friends of the Scotsman More Friends of the Scotsman >>

Sisters Emma left, and Joanne Russell, get some pancake-tossing practice in for Shrove Tuesday next week. Picture: Toby Williams

Why pancakes should give us food for thought – Anna Brand

Opinion

Stuart Goodall is Chief Executive of Confor: promoting forestry and wood

Forestry and wood playing vital role in meeting climate change target – Stuart Goodall

Opinion

Ross Macleod, Head of Policy (Scotland,) Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust

Helping farms to deliver on environment and climate – Ross Macleod

Opinion

Obituaries More Obituaries >>

Andre Previn at a London book signing in 1979 (Picture: Keystone/Getty Images)

Andre Previn

Obituaries

Baroness Falkender, then Marcia Williams, poses for the press in May 1974, the same year she was elevated to the peerage. (Picture: Aubrey Hart/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Obituary: Marcia Matilda Falkender, Lady Falkender CBE, aide to prime minister Harold Wilson who wielded unrivalled influence

Obituaries

David Paton of Grandhome

Obituary: David Paton, 9th Baron of Grandhome, business, arts and charity leader

Obituaries

Music critic Gerald Larner has died at the age of 82. Picture: Macbeth Media

Obituary: Gerald Larner, newspaper music critic for renowned for brutal honesty and fairness

Obituaries

Celebrity More Celebrity >>

Monica Lewinsky: ‘I almost took my own life due to humiliation’

Celebrity

Victim Louella Fletcher-Michie was the daughter of Scottish TV actor John Michie. Picture: PA

TV star’s daughter may have taken too much of party drug to be saved

News

Louella Fletcher-Michie, the daughter of Holby City actor John Michie, was found dead after taking party drug 2CP at the Bestival site at Lulworth Castle in Dorset in September 2017. Picture: Zoe Barling/PA Wire

Accused not giving evidence over John Michie’s daughter’s death

News

Edinburgh-born Nicky Campbell found tracing foundlings emotionally challenging

Scots TV presenter Nicky Campbell says rejection hard to shake after being adopted

TV & Radio

The Spice Girls will play a concert at Murrafield on 8 June, and although tickets have not sold out, they are being advertised for many times face value.

Spice Girls ticket resellers defy law for Scottish gig

Music