Herald View

Sunak and Sturgeon both have much to do to reassure the electorates in 2023

Herald View: Looking for signs of hope as we await 2023 with trepidation
AS a means of illuminating the current extreme crisis in our health service, it was grim, and it was truthful. Just eight, uncomfortable, words.

Railway cleaners outside the Transport Department (Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

Herald View: Sunak’s regrettable intransigence over the public sector strikes

The World Cup kicks off in Qatar tomorrow Picture: Adam Davy/PA

Herald View: The World Cup is a real coup for Qatar - but it has been so divisive

Nicola Sturgeon launches the Scottish Migrant Visa scheme paper in 2020

Herald View: As migrants debate turns nasty, SNP’s tailored approach to visas makes sense

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Rishi Sunak has blended calm authority with a blunt admission of tough times ahead

Herald View: Sunak didn’t get every call right but he’s the safest pair of hands we have

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Liz Truss addressing yesterday’s Downing Street briefing (Photo: Daniel Leal/PA Wire)

Herald View: Truss’s inept display is further proof that the Tories have run out of ideas

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Letters: Truss’s indyref voting plan is an affront to democracy - and Scotland

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Liz Truss agreed to an interview with the BBC’s Nick Robinson, but then said she couldn’t do it because she
was ‘too busy’

Herald View: Truss’s fear of robust TV interviews hinders our ability to assess her leadership qualities

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Boris Johnson's Week: Enjoy the final tour? Never fear, it’s not goodbye

Boris Johnson's Week: Enjoy the final tour? Never fear, it’s not goodbye

Herald View: Johnson has lost interest and is taking the hard-pressed voters for granted

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Herald View: Aid to Scots families struggling with fuel poverty can’t wait until new PM moves into No10

Herald View: Aid to Scots families struggling with fuel poverty can’t wait until new PM moves into No10

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Students at Auchmuty High School in Glenrothes, Fife, open their exam results. Photo: PA

Letters: The last-century thinking that shapes our approach to school exams

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The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, pictured by Gordon Terris in 2019

Letters: Can the Kirk still claim to be the country’s national church?

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Humza Yousaf at the Eye Centre, NHS Golden Jubilee National Hospital, in Clydebank

Letters: The NHS still functions well when needed

Accessing medical appointments on the phone can be difficult

Letters: Elderly NHS patients who can’t use new technology risk ‘being abandoned’

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Herald View: The NHS situation is grim but changes can be made if the political will is there

Herald View: The NHS situation is grim but changes can be made if the political will is there

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Letters: Truss is tactless when it comes to Sturgeon and Scotland

Letters: Truss is tactless when it comes to Sturgeon and Scotland

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‘The reality is that the ferry crisis poses no political threat to the SNP, unless it becomes a national issue’

Brian Wilson: The cynical calculations that shape ministers’ views of the ferry fiasco

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Judging by the First Minister’s language, the two years before the next General Election seem likely to be wasted on posturing and insults

Brian Wilson: The petty dishonesty that now passes for leadership in Scotland

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Caleb Landry Jones won Best Actor accolade at the Cannes Film Festival

David Wilson: Would we watch a film about Thomas Hamilton? I don't think we would

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Nicola Sturgeon has signalled that a second referendum or a general election fought on constitutional lines may perhaps soon loom larger in our lives

Martin Roche: Creating a lasting force for good in an independent Scotland

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Truss and Sunak are competing to find some distance from Boris Johnson, their continuing boss; and both candidates have alluded to Margaret Thatcher

Brian Taylor Will this leadership contest bring a Tory revival? Don’t bet on it

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Photograph: Colin Mearns

David Leask: Why we need to rethink our attitude towards Gaelic and its speakers

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Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

My Week, by Liz Truss: To strive to be a leader, drop your principles – fast

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James Watt was hooked on boats from an early age

Obituary: James Watt, superb marine artist who chronicled the Clyde and co-founded the Glasgow Group

President Biden fist-bumps Prince Mohammed bin Salman at their meeting in Jeddah this week

Andy Maciver: The absence of strong, clear global leadership in these unstable times

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Sunak’s trump card might be that he has a greater chance than Truss has of winning the next election

Michael Settle: Time is of the essence for Rishi Sunak

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Rose Ayling-Ellis, pictured with her professional partner Giovanni Pernice, was the first deaf contestant to win Strictly Come Dancing (photo: BBC)

Philip Gerrard: The new, long-awaited Edinburgh festival that will advance deaf culture

Supporters of Starmer and of Corbyn have had different reactions to the conclusions reached by Martin Forde QC

Iain Macwhirter: Why is no-one talking about the report into Labour's culture of racism and sexism?

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European Commission president Ursula von der Leyenhas much to deal with

Kirsty Hughes: The EU has no shortage of crises but is rising to the huge challenge

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Are Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss really the best that the Conservatives’ parliamentary party has to offer? Apparently so

Kirsty Strickland: Sunak and Truss are just as unfit to lead as Johnson was

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Our politics are ill-served by our broadcasters, especially so by our TV channels (Picture: Jonathan Hordle/ITV)

Adam Tomkins: The key issues that are absent from the ghastly TV leadership debates

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The CalMac ferry Loch Seaforth at Ullapool harbour in 2018. Picture: Colin Mearns

Rosemary Goring: Are ferries' breakdowns on the Sabbath proof that God now exists?

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Rishi Sunak is an “expert”, a bean-counter extraordinaire, a “safe pair of hands”. But what is the “job” exactly?

Stuart Waiton: The endless vacuity that lies at the heart of modern politics

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As the number who cannot afford food increases, government’s responsibility becomes inescapable – just as in wartime (Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

Brian Wilson: Why the food security issue needs a modern Dig for Victory campaign

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Drought could put up to 700m people at risk of displacement by 2030, the UN has warned

JONATHON SHAFI Class dynamics may be part of answer to our dystopian future

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Liz Truss backed Remain, yet arch-Leavers Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries tell TV audiences that Ms Truss is the one to resist Rishi Sunak on tax hikes

Brian Taylor: Does this surreal leadership contest make you yearn for Johnson? Maybe. Maybe not

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Kevin McKenna: The SNP must get real and abstain from Westminster

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My week, by Penny Mordaunt: Why I am the best (real) woman for the job

My week, by Penny Mordaunt: Why I am the best (real) woman for the job

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A more voting proportional system would end one-party dominance

Rebecca McQuillan: Worried that the Tories will be in power forever? Here’s the solution

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Mordaunt has pledged to return to traditional Tory values and claimed– without any real justification – that she was the candidate “Labour fear the most”

Michael Settle: The Tory right’s focus now is on stopping Penny Mordaunt from reaching No 10

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Iain Macwhirter: Sturgeon may have created the SNP's biggest disaster in 35 years

Iain Macwhirter: Sturgeon may have created the SNP's biggest disaster in 35 years

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The BBC has alleged that SAS units repeatedly killed Afghan detainees

Neil Mackay: If Afghan death-squad claims are proven the SAS must be disbanded and those guilty jailed for life for war crimes

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The newly-published Rise Report is a stark reminder of the work that still has to be done to end women’s inequality of safety in Scotland

Kirsty Strickland: It’s difficult being a young woman today. We should try to make it easier

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Robert McNeil: The smiling backstabbers, having removed their knives, now patted Boris on the back

Robert McNeil: The smiling backstabbers, having removed their knives, now patted Boris on the back

We have effortlessly resumed our pre-pandemic habits, such as flying

Rosemary Goring: The green pledges we made to ourselves in lockdown already feel like history

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Adam Tomkins: The Tories’ future is in safe hands with the next generation of leaders

Adam Tomkins: The Tories’ future is in safe hands with the next generation of leaders

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The privatised utilities should be windfall-taxed to the hilt, as happened in 1997 when a £5.1bn hit scarcely troubled them

Brian Wilson: The energy crisis is as big as Covid – and demands the same urgent action

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As Boris Johnson rightly noted in his farewell address yesterday, “In politics, no-one is remotely indispensable”

Michael Settle: Johnson’s forced exit could be first step in the Tories’ recovery

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Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Donald MacLeod: Let's hear it for the return of summer music festivals

Starmer and Sarwar are developing a narrative about the UK’s future

Andy Maciver: Why Starmer and Sarwar need to support indyref2

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‘As things stand, Johnson will be lucky to survive to the weekend, let alone summer recess’

Kirsty Strickland: Might the Union head the same way as Johnson the lying lawbreaker?

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The FM ‘aims to once again kick the referendum process into the long grass, but without her ever-loyal troops noticing’

Adam Tomkins: Don’t hold your breath for Scotland’s date with destiny

Scott’s View, overlooking the valley of the River Tweed (Prisma Bildagentur/UIG via Getty Images)

Rosemary Goring: A stir of echoes awoken as Scotland forges new paths

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