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Ten-years on London 2012 showcased the best and worst of the Olympic Games - Susan Egelstaff

Ten-years on London 2012 showcased the best and worst of the Olympic Games - Susan Egelstaff
IN just a few weeks, it will be the 10-year anniversary of the London Olympics.

Nicola Sturgeon sets out in Holyrood last Tuesday her routemap for a second independence referendum. Photo Jeff Mitchell/Getty.

PREMIUM Kathleen Nutt: Sturgeon's bold indyref2 strategy may well work - here's how

Letters: If Sturgeon really wants to talk, why can't she put forward a genuinely fair referendum?

Letters: If Sturgeon really wants to talk, why can't she put forward a genuinely fair referendum?

UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 08: The ancient Iona Abbey and St Oran's Chapel on Isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides and Western Isles, West Coast of Scotland (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images).

PREMIUM The atmospheric Scottish island where Celtic Christianity took root

No flares allowed, but the permitted list for a Liam Gallagher gig is interesting…

This week in the Herald Diary: What you should and shouldn't take to a Liam Gallagher gig

Arbroath Smokies

Scots Word of the Week: Arbroath Smokies

Nicola Sturgeon smiles during First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament, on June 30, 2022 in Edinburgh. (Photo by Ken Jack/Getty Images).

Hold 'em or fold 'em? Nicola Sturgeon goes all in with her big gamble

Brian Donnelly: Nicola Sturgeon case for Indyref2 amid 'abundance of resources'

PREMIUM Brian Donnelly: Nicola Sturgeon opens case for Indyref2 amid 'abundance of resources'

Boris Johnson pictured with Sir Keir Starmer. Should their parties and the LibDems engage more over Indyref2?

Letters: The unionist parties must do their bit to break the deadlock

Time to talk about the language of the independence debate

Drew Allan: My word: The new lexicon of indy

Captain Tom Moore

PREMIUM Captain Tom's Week: Charity commission probe is a right to-do

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Nicola Sturgeon’s Indyref2 plan

Camley’s Cartoon: Sturgeon’s Indyref2 plan

David Caskie, Scotland Corporate Citizen Lead, Accenture

Agenda: Social mobility must be given greater priority in the workplace

Paul McCartney, from left, Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen perform at Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm, Somerset, England, Saturday, June 25, 2022. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP).

PREMIUM Sir Paul’s Glasto performance: how to live and not let die, by Robert McNeil

The dried up Aral Sea

PREMIUM David Leask: Why the world’s despots will cheer if Tories block indyref2

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

PREMIUM Brian Taylor: Indyref2 – is it now a question of when rather than if?

Halifax sparked a social media storm when the bank, operating as a trading division of Bank of Scotland, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, said staff can wear pronouns on their work badges

Issue of the day: Halifax embroiled in pronouns row

A Yes march in Glasgow

PREMIUM Kevin McKenna: Yes voters like me have a big SNP problem in the next referendum

Partick Thistle's Ross Docherty (centre) celebrates making it 1-1 during a cinch Championship match between Partick Thistle and Kilmarnock at Firhill Stadium, on January 14, 2022. (Photo by Craig Foy / SNS Group).

PREMIUM Herald Diary: Escaped goats, Andy Murray and Partick Thistle

Bailey Rice has moved from Motherwell to Rangers at the age of just 16.

Graeme McGarry Are young players jumping ship too early as top clubs exert power in the football food chain?

Catriona Stewart: Rayner should take Raab to the opera - he might learn some class

Rumours abound in that neo-gothic palace of corruption on the Thames, that a new Lib-Lab deal is being struck.

Neil Mackay: LibDem - Labour pact rumours could spell ruin for SNP Indyref plans

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed his gratitude for Boris Johnson's positioning of the UK regarding Ukraine and Nato

Letters: Guess which way Zelenskyy would vote in Indyref2?

The People's Palace has lost several of its significant objects and collections

Letters: It's time Glasgow Life made amends for the large-scale looting of the People's Palace

Professor Kevin Blyth, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Institute of Cancer Studies, University of Glasgow

Agenda: Help us fight this pernicious cancer with links to asbestos

Daniel Craig playing James Bond in the new Bond film No Time To Die.

Five fairly daft things we've learned this week

Meme of the Day

Herald Diary: Meme of the Day

Tourists on a beach in Portugal

Donald Macleod: How does tourism sector in Scotland compare to the continent?

Sir Keir Starmer

PREMIUM Rebecca McQuillan: Sturgeon has given Starmer a serious headache – and an opportunity

A reader spotted this sign in Glasgow’s Queens Park and wonders if this means that walking the pooch is now as deliciously debauched as hanging out with Led Zeppelin, back in the saucy 70s.

PREMIUM The Diary: Broom-broom beddy-byes

: Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Snake Island

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Snake Island

The cost-of-living is dramatically altering the way we shop

Issue of the day: The cost-of-living is changing shopping habits worldwide

Yes and No campaigners wait for the departure of Labour leader Ed Miliband on the Scottish independence campaign trail on September 4, 2014 in Blantyre. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images).

PREMIUM Michael Settle: Next general election could be the nastiest in Scotland’s history

The point about Putin is not his sex but that he is an elective dictator, writes Iain Macwhirter.

Iain Macwhirter: 'If Putin was a woman' assumption is patronising and sexist

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds binoculars while watching a military exercises on training ground

Is Boris right? Would Ukraine war not have happened if Putin was a woman?

Sidse Babett Knudsen, who plays Birgitte Nyborg in Borgen, and Nicola Sturgeon at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2013. Episodes from the series were premiered at the festival

Borgen spoilers Alison Rowat: Is Nicola Sturgeon's future set out in TV drama?

Mark Smith: How to fix the Glasgow midden

Mark Smith: How to fix the Glasgow midden

Nicola Sturgeon delivers her statement to MSPs on her plans to hold a second referendum on October 19, 2023 – or failing that, making the 2024 General Election a de facto referendum

Letters: Bring on the indy General Election. The SNP will be crushed

Is tertiary education too dominant in Scotland?

Letters: It's time to question the system that concentrates on churning out endless degrees

The Pollokshields Trust and Govanhill Baths Community Trust Kenmure Street Festival of Resistance. The event marked one year since the Kenmure street protest. Pictured is Cllr Roza Salih...Photograph by Colin Mearns.13 May 2022.

Rhiannon Spear: We need help for those arrested in the battle of Kenmure Street

An energy from waste facility

Agenda: Much more than fine words need if circular economy is to be delivered

Meme of the Day

Herald Diary: Meme of the Day

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on police goodwill

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on police goodwill

Douglas Ross with Boris Johnson

PREMIUM Neil Mackay: Johnson’s autocratic government bears full responsibility for what is now happening in Scotland

Trevor Muir spotted this intriguing game in the Dunfermline branch of Waterstones, and hopes that West Ham footballer Kurt Zouma doesn’t get his hands on it…

Herald Diary: The would-be Romeo going through a bad spell

Deputy Labour Leader Angela Rayner speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. PA Photo. Picture date: Wednesday June 29, 2022. See PA story Politics PMQs. Photo credit should read: House of Commons/PA Wire.

PREMIUM Westminster sketch: Martial arts mayhem in Commons with kung fu heels and karate winks

Kevin McKenna: Why opposition parties are convinced indyref2 would be nasty and divisive

Kevin McKenna: Why opposition parties are convinced indyref2 would be nasty and divisive

Scotland facing real examination of where they are in world rugby stakes - Martin Hannan

PREMIUM Scotland facing real examination of where they are in world rugby stakes - Martin Hannan

Nicola Sturgeon proposes to use the Supreme Court to promote the case for a Section 30 Order

PREMIUM Iain Macwhirter: See you in court, but we know where it will end

Paisley lost its town council in 1975

Letters: The loss of town councillors accountable to local communities has come home to roost

The First Minister aims to repeat the ballot question of 2014

Letters: Forget the haters and grab this golden opportunity

Agenda: We need to rethink the culture aound business start-ups

Sunshine at Elie Harbour Beach.

PREMIUM Rosemary Goring: Are second homes so wrong? Or are we just jealous?

Meme of the Day

Herald Diary: Meme of the Day