A parliament is only as good as the politicians it attracts. Unfortunately for Holyrood, it mostly attracts the flotsam and ...

But in an interview with the Scotsman podcast The Steamie, John Swinney expressed his worries over a rise in “populism” ahead ...

Scottish Labour leaders seem to put a lot of effort into finding something bad to say about our NHS but somehow never seem able to find ...

A judge has ruled that development can continue on two North Sea oil and gas projects, but there can be no production until ...

Scotland’s former health secretary says he was ‘literally chased down’ after using taxpayer funds to pay off bill of nearly ...

The Old Edinburgh Club draws our attention to what happened in the capital in years and centuries gone by. Day Event 1st: In 1918, Dame Muriel Spark (author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) was born ...

In 1999 Richard, then-29, was elected to the Scottish Parliament as a regional MSP for North East Scotland, before he became ...

THIS week marks the fifth anniversary of the UK officially leaving the EU, long enough surely to assess the accuracy of those promises made ...

Michael Matheson was forced to step down as Scotland's health secretary last year amid a public outcry over a near £11,000 iPad data roaming bill. In a new interview, the MSP said his opponents had ...

Over half of private landlords in Scotland are at least considering selling up as a result of new red tape, research shows.

Humza Yousaf’s decision to end the SNP’s powersharing deal with the Scottish Greens was “catastrophic”, former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said. Ms Sturgeon brought the Greens into government ...