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Neil Mackay: Ready for the next disastrous Scottish Government policy?

Neil Mackay: Ready for the next disastrous Scottish Government policy?
IT’S almost a year since I conducted a lengthy interview with Lorna Slater, the Green Scottish government minister.

La Liga president Javier Tebas is concerned by the inequal spending power afforded to Premier League clubs

Fresh scouting platform offers remedy to Premier League's nauseating transfer outlay

Sam Smith's new music video has caused controversy with its queer imagery

Opinion Mark Smith: The Sam Smith furore proves how much we’ve still to learn

When a student moves on to university there is an assumption they won't be able to cope with the dual role of studying and work – those who work are benefitting

Opinion Catriona Stewart: Don't feel sorry for working students – they're the winners

Shell appeared to hit the jackpot when it posted an eye-watering £32.2 billion profit

Opinion Alan Simpson: We are all responsible for Shell’s huge profits and we can’t moan

We have fewer nurses in the NHS than the OECD average – and with only around 2.5 beds for every 1,000 people, we have little over half the average

Opinion Andy Maciver: The NHS has crumbled. We must not be afraid of a new model

Will blame for the broken economy be placed at the feet of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, or will they be able to deflect the blame?

Opinion Michael Settle: As UK becomes sick man of Europe once again – who will get blame?

Bob Elliot is Director of OneKind

Agenda Time to end the misery of greyhound racing

“What this sign lacks in precision, it makes up for in accuracy,” points out reader Ed Black.

Herald Diary Be very careful when it comes to pie in the sky

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Trump golf course

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Trump golf course

Willie Collum checks on Ryan Jack after Nicky Clark's challenge on the Rangers midfielder

opinion The only thing clear and obvious is approach to VAR must change

Steven Fletcher's first-half penalty was saved at Rugby Park

Kilmarnock and Dundee United facing similar striking dilemma in bid to beat drop

Alfredo Morelos' celebration at Tynecastle was criticised by Neil McCann

Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos has been unfairly targeted by the Celebration Police

Sarah Lancashire plays Sgt Catherine Cawood, a heroine for these troubled times?

Opinion Alison Rowat: How Happy Valley’s Catherine Cawood became a heroine for our times

It's Groundhog Day – or rather, when a shy rodent called Punxsutawney Phil is roused from his burrow to declare whether there will be an early Spring

Opinion Susan Swarbrick: Feel like Groundhog Day? That's because it is ...

Scientists aim to bring the dodo back to life by taking dodo genes and inserting them into its closely-related living relative – the pigeon

Opinion Neil Mackay: Will we fail the science test and go the way of the dodo?

Is the First Minister's longevity and resilience finally waning?

Opinion Rebecca McQuillan: Nicola Sturgeon, impressive for so long, has lost her way

Wendy Halliday is the director of See Me, Scotland’s programme to end mental health stigma and discrimination

Agenda It’s time to talk – and take action against mental health stigma

Karen Traynor sends us this confusing use of signs. The good news is that one of them has to be right…

Herald Diary Darts on the telly? How about darts and the telly...

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on transfer deadline

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on transfer deadline

Carol Vorderman is using her platform to hold the government to account

Issue Of The Day Carol Vorderman holds Rishi Sunak to account in new role as Leader of the Opposition

Lee Johnson survived 'El Sackico' but remains couple defeats from another Hibs crisis

The Fixture Newsletter Lee Johnson survived 'El Sackico' but remains couple defeats from another Hibs crisis

Labour leader Keir Starmer continued last week's attack on the 'weak' Rishi Sunak at PMQs

Westminster Sketch PMQs sketch: On Walkout Wednesday, Labour takes it sleazy in Westminster

In Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s speech last Friday, he repeated a commitment to the development of investment zones 'focused on our research strengths and executed in partnership with local government'

Opinion Stuart Patrick: Here's how Hunt can make up with Glasgow

Bed-blocking is becoming increasingly challenging due to problems in social care and hospitals

Opinion Paul Kelly: Health and social care needs investment across the whole system

The over-50s are now back in demand in the workplace

Opinion Rosemary Goring: Attitudes need to change to get over-50s back to work

Might as well be reading horoscopes – there is simply no predicting what the market will do next

Opinion Kerry Hudson: I check house prices obsessively, like I did my horoscope when I was 14

Peter Farrer is Chair of the Scottish Apprenticeship Advisory Board (SAAB) and Chief Operating Officer of Scottish Water

Agenda Why apprenticeships are a win-win for everyone

Gordon Miller from Falkirk applauds this aspirational message

Herald Diary Foiled by the haggis that fought back

: Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the economy

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the economy

Todd Boehly has been far from reluctant in splashing the cash at Chelsea

The high risk, high reward gamble behind astronomical Chelsea transfer spend

Jamie Ritchie is still only 26 but has an old head on young shoulders

Martin Hannan: Jamie Ritchie can lead Scotland to victory at Twickenham

There are misconceptions about how crime in the courts is reported – some of our lawmakers may need more information

Opinion Catriona Stewart: Scotland's lawmakers need to brush up their knowledge

80 percent of Scotland's peatland is degraded or damaged yet the momentum for a solution continues to stall

Opinion Vicky Allan: For peat's sake! Scottish government's missed targets and false figures

Actor Alan Cumming returned his OBE and said his eyes had been opened by the 'toxicity of empire'

Opinion Neil Mackay: Hail Alan Cumming, the national treasure who returned his OBE

There are more headline-grabbing scandals in the pipeline for the Scottish Government and its ministers

Opinion Brian Wilson: We deserve a competent government, not one obsessed with empty boasts

Giving Scotland real legislative consent is a significant part of Labour's plans – their imminent Westminster governance means a reform package is on its way

Opinion Stephen Noon: Labour constitutional changes offer a path to independence

Marcus DiRollo is lettings director at full-service legal firm Gilson Gray

Agenda Rent freeze U-turn still leaves investors with more questions than answers

Spotted in a Sheffield toilet by Stan Milton, who believes these lavatories are mostly used by Stormpoopers, not Stormtroopers.

Herald Diary All fired up for a birthday celebration

Talking to strangers can help foster a sense of community

Opinion Daniella Theis: How a quick chat with a stranger made my day

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on gender reform

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on gender reform

'A lurch to the right has been aided and abetted by the vested interests of a client press'

Issue Of The Day Sex Pistols legend Glen Matlock accuses BBC of 'pushing Government line' on Brexit

opinion Underlying tensions help to produce hammer-and-tongs desert storm

Politicians making money on behalf of private interests is spiralling out of control

Opinion Doug Marr: Where is the line on political lobbying?

Has the First Minister's rhetoric lapsed into Poundland Trump territory?

Opinion Kevin McKenna: Why is Sturgeon now acting like a poundland Trump?

There are signs of trouble in the First Minister's rhetoric, both political and personal

Opinion Mark Smith: The signs of trouble ahead in Nicola Sturgeon’s rhetoric

Sauchiehall Street is part of Glasgow’s tarnished Golden Z for shoppers

Glasgow must be given more powers to revitalise the city centre: Herald View

Henry Maitles is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of the West of Scotland

Agenda An evil to which we must say: Never again

The differences over the Brexit result show the immeasurable divide the United Kingdom is experiencing

Opinion Lesley Riddoch: Scotland is still leaving the lights on for the EU

This image of 'Putin' front-and-centre meeting students in Moscow has sparked rumours it could in fact be a body double due to the sizeable heels and other apparently

Issue of the day Does this image prove Putin uses body doubles?

It seems there’s now an Australian version of Prince Harry’s autobiography, as this topsy-turvy, down-under window-display in the Sauchiehall Street branch of Waterstones proves.

Burns Night Supper that had an explosive start

Cormack apologised to Aberdeen fans following humiliation at Hibs

Is taking a back seat the best way for Dave Cormack to show his love for Aberdeen?

Michael Gove on BBC1's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Alison Rowat 'At times like these broadcasters sink or swim.' How did media handle Zahawi sacking?

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has always said that fairness is 'non-negotiable'

Susan Egelstaff: World Athletics must remember fairness is key in transgender debate