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Ian McConnell: Does SNP face impossible task as Scottish Budget looms?
This might feel at times like an impossible task for the SNP

L-R: Mark Houston, Claire Forrest, Jenny Junnier, Lynne Walker, Martin Osler, Lesley Hopwood, Max Chassels

L-R: Mark Houston, Claire Forrest, Jenny Junnier, Lynne Walker, Martin Osler, Lesley Hopwood, Max Chassels

Scottish accountancy firm appoints four new partners amid 65 promotions

Historic Scottish furniture firm for sale

Historic Scottish furniture firm for sale

Historic Scottish furniture firm for sale after a century in business

Liz Copland and Derek McNab

Liz Copland and Derek McNab

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One of biggest players in its sector in Scotland formed by major merger deal

L-R: Andrew Tweedie - chief financial officer, Jamie Tosh – managing director of Bancon Homes and Bancon Construction, Bob McAlpine - chairman and David Crawford – managing director of Deeside Timberframe

L-R: Andrew Tweedie - chief financial officer, Jamie Tosh – managing director of Bancon Homes and Bancon Construction, Bob McAlpine - chairman and David Crawford – managing director of Deeside Timberframe

Aberdeenshire housebuilder declares it has 'weathered storm'

Business Interview

'It's like being stuck in quicksand, but the sand is made up of email threads'

Business confidence fell much more sharply in Scotland than in the UK as a whole

Business confidence fell much more sharply in Scotland than in the UK as a whole

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Scottish business confidence tumbles

David Lonsdale: A Christmas Carol not the worst parallel

Shona Robison will unveil the draft Scottish Budget on Wednesday

Shona Robison will unveil the draft Scottish Budget on Wednesday

Scottish Liberal Democrats

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Explainer: What are the Greens and Lib Dems key budget demands - and red lines?

DUMBARTON, SCOTLAND - JUNE 02: The Scotland team warm up during a friendly match between Scotland and Northern Ireland U21's at C&G Systems Stadium, on June 02, 2021, in Dumbarton, Scotland (Photo by Craig Foy / SNS Group)

DUMBARTON, SCOTLAND - JUNE 02: The Scotland team warm up during a friendly match between Scotland and Northern Ireland U21's at C&G Systems Stadium, on June 02, 2021, in Dumbarton, Scotland (Photo by Craig Foy / SNS Group)

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Kevin McKenna on the fight to keep Dumbarton FC alive

Ian Duncan Smith in Easterhouse in 2002, taken by Martin Shields

Ian Duncan Smith in Easterhouse in 2002, taken by Martin Shields

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Fraser Nelson: Why aren't we solving the 'Glasgow effect' of ingrained poverty?

Portree, part of an area where health and social care provision has been cut

Portree, part of an area where health and social care provision has been cut

Highlands & Islands

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Letters: We must act to end unfair treatment of the Highlands

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Mark Smith: Read this book, and weep for what we’ve lost

Scottish Greens finance spokesman Ross Greer and First Minister John Swinney

Scottish Greens finance spokesman Ross Greer and First Minister John Swinney

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Greens prepared to vote against SNP budget if it doesn't meet party's key demands

The development is set to take a major step forward

The development is set to take a major step forward

Business Week 📈

Plan for 7,000 new homes on edge of Scottish city to get green light

Supporters of the 'Not Dead Yet' campaign, which opposes the Assisted Dying Bill, react outside the Houses of Parliament

Supporters of the 'Not Dead Yet' campaign, which opposes the Assisted Dying Bill, react outside the Houses of Parliament

How should Scottish religious groups present their opposition to assisted dying?

Princess Merida, above. Are Pixar's liberties fair enough? As Rab has said before, our flag should be a grey cross – because being Scottish is a cross to bear – on a grey background

Princess Merida, above. Are Pixar's liberties fair enough? As Rab has said before, our flag should be a grey cross – because being Scottish is a cross to bear – on a grey background

RAB'S SCOTTISH ICONS

Brave proves Scotland is the last country the world can mock with impunity

Supporters of For Women Scotland and the Scottish Feminist Network outside the Scottish Parliament ahead of the vote on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill in December 2022 demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh

Supporters of For Women Scotland and the Scottish Feminist Network outside the Scottish Parliament ahead of the vote on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill in December 2022 demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh

KEVIN MCKENNA'S DIARY

National government

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SNP advancing the idea that a man can become pregnant embarrasses us all

March against Grangemouth closure

March against Grangemouth closure

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Alan Simpson: Is the human cost of Net Zero drive really worth it?

The Herald on Sunday met with two globally respected academics to find out precisely how we got into this state, and how we get out of it.

The Herald on Sunday met with two globally respected academics to find out precisely how we got into this state, and how we get out of it.

NEIL MACKAY'S BIG READ

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Mass migration, war and poverty: How Scotland provides the remedy for bad capitalism

The Prisoners (Early Release) (Scotland) Bill, passed last week, lowers the minimum term served by short-term prisoners.

The Prisoners (Early Release) (Scotland) Bill, passed last week, lowers the minimum term served by short-term prisoners.

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SNP progress on Scotland’s buckling prison system is head-bangingly slow

Bethel Tesfay says that education in schools is crucial to making women and girls safer.

Bethel Tesfay says that education in schools is crucial to making women and girls safer.

Gender-based violence

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Why a peer-mentoring scheme in schools can make life better for women like me

SNP Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth continues negotiating with local authorities over the distribution of £145.5m in special funding to maintain teacher numbers.

SNP Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth continues negotiating with local authorities over the distribution of £145.5m in special funding to maintain teacher numbers.

Scottish Government

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ScotGov "does not have" information on £145m negotiations

Nigel Farage smiling

Nigel Farage smiling

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‘Nigel’s Not Scared of Scotland’: Tice defends Farage’s Scottish conference snub

The UK Government paid foreign offenders more than £6 million to leave the UK early within 2021 and 2024.

The UK Government paid foreign offenders more than £6 million to leave the UK early within 2021 and 2024.

Early release of prisoners

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Foreign offenders paid £6.4m to leave UK early in three year period

Reform rosettes

Reform rosettes

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Reform 'going where votes are' as Farage's party eyes Holyrood breakthrough

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden, appearing on the BBC1 current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. PA

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden, appearing on the BBC1 current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. PA

Alison Rowat: Another fine mess for Starmer's man McFadden to clean up

The Herald is again partnering with Scottish Book Trust for this year's Christmas campaign

The Herald is again partnering with Scottish Book Trust for this year's Christmas campaign

Scottish Book Trust

'Books are a ladder for Scottish children to climb above poverty and deprivation'

Buhle (right) lives with her aunt, Girl (left), 54, as her parents died in 2020.

Buhle (right) lives with her aunt, Girl (left), 54, as her parents died in 2020.

Highlanders FC to Mary's Meals: How a Scottish legacy lives on in Zimbabwe

An estimated 366 council and 138 private addresses in the Balnagask area of Torry have RAAC in roof

An estimated 366 council and 138 private addresses in the Balnagask area of Torry have RAAC in roof

Aberdeen RAAC residents take their case direct to First Minister John Swinney

Deal to bottle Scots whisky near Moscow

Deal to bottle Scots whisky near Moscow

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Anger over Scots company's whisky deal with Russia

A woman carries a picture of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as she returns to Dahiyeh, in Beirut, Lebanon, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024

A woman carries a picture of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as she returns to Dahiyeh, in Beirut, Lebanon, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024

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'This war has cost us so much' - Lebanese Scots welcome ceasefire

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‘You will wear the tartan!’: Long-serving peer who became ‘mother of the clan’

Glasgow by-election looms after Labour legal blunder sees new councillor disqualified

Glasgow by-election looms after Labour legal blunder sees new councillor disqualified

Glasgow City Council

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Glasgow by-election looms after legal blunder sees new Labour councillor disqualified

Revealed: Scotland's plans to

Revealed: Scotland's plans to

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Explained: Scotland's plans to 'capitalise' on hydrogen and fuel Europe's industry

Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton

Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton

Alex Cole-Hamilton

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SNP and Liberal Democrats on cusp of Budget deal before final talks

Naim Qassem (R), deputy secretary-general of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, and Mohammed Raad (C), head of Hezbollah's bloc in the Lebanese parliament, attend the funeral of top Hezbollah military commander Ibrahim Aqil

Naim Qassem (R), deputy secretary-general of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, and Mohammed Raad (C), head of Hezbollah's bloc in the Lebanese parliament, attend the funeral of top Hezbollah military commander Ibrahim Aqil

National government

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A sense of deja vu prevails over fragile new ceasefire in the Middle East

Mourners remembered both the political and personal side to Alex Salmond at a memorial service in Edinburgh.

Mourners remembered both the political and personal side to Alex Salmond at a memorial service in Edinburgh.

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‘Not a saint but a human being’: the political and personal side of Alex Salmond

Duncan Hamilton KC reads a tribute

Duncan Hamilton KC reads a tribute

Alex Salmond Service

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Salmond resigning ‘most obvious strategic mistake’, says former political adviser

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'Change the culture': Alan Bissett on masculinity, boundaries and consent

The SQA and Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth will be grilled by Holyrood's education committee. (Image: PA)

The SQA and Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth will be grilled by Holyrood's education committee. (Image: PA)

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Gilruth and SQA hauled before Holyrood's education committee amid Higher History saga

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been urged by GMB Scotland to fund the shortfall left by the increase to national insurance contributions. (Image: PA)

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been urged by GMB Scotland to fund the shortfall left by the increase to national insurance contributions. (Image: PA)

National Insurance

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GMB: Reeves must fund national insurance hike facing Scotland's public sector

John Swinney, First Minister

John Swinney, First Minister

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Brian Donnelly: New SNP law has ‘forced investors to turn away from Scotland’

Bank put on market for sale

Bank put on market for sale

Landmark bank building in Scottish town centre goes on market

Veteran Scottish banker to retire from head of UK bank after 45-year career

Mark Reynier during his time at Bruichladdich Distillery on Islay.

Mark Reynier during his time at Bruichladdich Distillery on Islay.

Former Bruichladdich chief calls in receivers at Irish distillery

A conference this week looked at how the NHS in Scotland might get waiting times back on track

A conference this week looked at how the NHS in Scotland might get waiting times back on track

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Can NHS Scotland ever get back to where it should be on waiting times?

Susan Calman visits 'Scotland in miniature' Arran

Susan Calman visits 'Scotland in miniature' Arran

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Susan Calman names 'best beach in Scotland and the world'

Clinicians were said to be 'flabbergasted' after the changes were rushed through despite objections

Clinicians were said to be 'flabbergasted' after the changes were rushed through despite objections

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

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Medics 'flabbergasted' by NHS Glasgow shake up to Serious Adverse Event process

The iconic Highland coo

The iconic Highland coo

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Coos up close: How Highland Cattle are helping promote Scotland round the world

First Minister John Swinney and finance secretary Shona Robison

First Minister John Swinney and finance secretary Shona Robison

Alex Cole-Hamilton

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Shona Robison to end Humza Yousaf's council tax freeze in Budget

Daniel Cormack and Jia MacKenzie, GEG Capital

Daniel Cormack and Jia MacKenzie, GEG Capital

Inverness firm unveils two latest acquisitions

A completely passive approach to investment is unlikely to result in optimal performance, David Thomson writes

A completely passive approach to investment is unlikely to result in optimal performance, David Thomson writes

David Thomson: A rallying cry for investors in a world of noise

National government

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His rage burns on: the battle to commemorate the great Red Clydesider