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Kuenssberg documentaries show a septic tank is more wholesome than Westminster
Obviously Sunak is going to hold this press conference at 4.30pm. Unless there is a huge rollback of what's been leaked, though, this should be valid. I've left a space where I can insert a line if you like. Do we have time to wait to 5pm?

Sir Keir Starmer

Opinion Neil Mackay: Starmer's snub to closer EU links shows he doesn't give a damn for Scots

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Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak

Ian McConnell: Bizarre Tory views as yet more interest rate misery looms tomorrow

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There are health concerns over highly processed foods with high salt, fat and sugar foods

Rebecca McQuillan Are ultra-processed foods a ticking timebomb for our health?

Gardening brings joy

Ian Houston How tending my parents' precious garden puts me in touch with the past - and future

Liz Truss MP throws herself into a Q&A session

Opinion Alison Rowat: Truss, Sturgeon, Blair and the art of shamelessness

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Scotland’s parks need our love and support - and you can help

Rishi Sunak is appealing to the pro-car lobby

Opinion Teddy Jamieson: Sunak's anti-green move is a desperate act from a desperate man

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Rishi Sunak broke transparency rules, a parliamentary probe has found

Opinion Vicky Allan: Who should pay for Net Zero? Surely it has to be the big polluters

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Locavore in Govanhill, Glasgow

Opinion Kerry Hudson: If this is sustainable Scotland, count me in

Opinion Guy Stenhouse: Wealth tax would be a self-inflicted wound of great stupidity

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Opinion Ian McConnell: Politics casts a shadow over Scottish business

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Migrants are brought ashore in Dover, Kent

Daniella Theis: Immigration enriches our society – I’m glad to see attitudes changing

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Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross's party is in second place behind the SNP in several Scottish constituencies for the next General Election

Opinion Mark Smith: The Scots who will be forced to vote Conservative

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Marchers at a pro-independence rally in Edinburgh earlier this month. What can the Scottish Governmen do to breathe new life into the campaign?

Opinion Neil Mackay: The clouds are breaking, so SNP must now offer a vision

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The best of 'frienemies': George Osborne and Ed Balls

Opinion Kevin McKenna: Rise of the snobcasts channels the regression of politics

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Sir Keir Starmer has been turning his attention to European issues

Opinion Brian Wilson: Words have become very cheap. Starmer is doing exactly as he should

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Labour MP Pat McFadden was a guest on BBC1's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Interviews are no laughing matter for Labour's Scottish straight man

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Economy and Wellbeing Secretary Neil Gray is to head up a New Deal for Business group

Opinion Stuart Patrick: A great deal hangs on this new group

Sir Tom Hunter sees opportunities in AI

The smart money is on learning all we can about Artificial Intelligence

New York City’s Tartan Day Parade in April profiles Scotland’s strengths in the international market every year . . . but should we be focussing more on modern USPs?

Modern marvel: selling the real Scotland to the world

Dr Emily Gray: Rishi’s tricky energy balance

Opinion Lennie Pennie: Boundaries online are incredibly important to set – and enforce

A person passes the Wilko store in Barking, east London, on the final day of its trading and one of the first set of Wilko stores to close down as the dramatic collapse of the high street chain takes shape.

Opinion Brian Taylor: We need to restore order in our town and city centres

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The Battle of Culloden

Opinion David Leask: Scottish nationalists are parroting far-right lies about white slavery

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Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Nicola Sturgeon’s forthcoming memoirs

Camley’s Cartoon: Nicola Sturgeon’s memoirs

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Unspun 🗳️ Neil Mackay: Latest indy offering as shabby, threadbare and mad as Miss Havisham

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The key power would be better in Scotland's hands

Opinion Ian McConnell: Key power better in Scotland's hands

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The University of Glasgow

Opinion Mark Smith: The action we need to take on free speech

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Lorna Slater and Humza Yousaf in cartoons

Alan Simpson: Sheer hypocrisy around BBC satirical cartoons is breath-taking

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It is almost exactly 10 years since David McLetchie died

Opinion Andy Maciver: In today's bitter times, what would David McLetchie do?

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A worker on the GMB Minster picket line

Opinion Roz Foyer: Why we must have a wholesale revolution in social care

Agenda: Seize the day and help the blue economy prosper

A protestor outside the Supreme Court last November, when the court gave its historic ruling

Opinion Rebecca McQuillan: The referendum that never was has left space for real politics

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Philip Whyte, Director of IPPR Scotland

Agenda: Why Scotland urgently needs radical action on tax

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Narendra Modi and Rishi Sunak

Opinion Ian McConnell: This is a desperate look for Brexit Britain

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A good school library can make a huge difference

Opinion Rosemary Goring: We need to make a noise about the threat to our libraries

First Minister Humza Yousaf with Scottish Greens ministers Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater

Opinion Struan Stevenson: The SNP and Greens are a mix that is toxic to business

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Labour's Angela Rayner makes the heart/love sign to TUC delegates in Liverpool

Opinion Alison Rowat: If Angela Rayner were SNP leader indy would be here by now

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Rishi Sunak during Prime Minister's Questions

WESTMINSTER SKETCh Robert McNeil: After Alister in Wonderland, PMQs made me feel like a wee lie-down

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What has decided that peatland restoration is a good idea?

Opinion Brian Wilson: Land reform is not a fringe issue and it's going in the wrong direction

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This Glasgow statue of Sir Robert Peel, a prime minister whose father had links to the slave trade, was vandalised by protestors in 2020 amid calls for it be removed as part of the continuing debate over Scotland’s history with slavery

Opinion Neil Mackay: It's time for Scotland to apologise for its role in slavery

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Fergus Ewing represents the heart and soul of the independence cause, yet he is threatened with suspension

Opinion Kevin McKenna: Yousaf is afraid of his own shadow and it’s killing the Yes cause

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Boris Johnson delivered a hard Brexit deal

Ian McConnell: Crucial to remove blinkers and see true Scottish picture

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Education Secretary Gillian Keegan was recorded swearing after a TV interview

What a crisis like RAAC is really doing to the foundations of the Tory government

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Police officers often use the cameras at Glasgow City Council's operating centre in London Road

Mark Smith: Glasgow unwatched for 12 hours every day? This is where we are now

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First Minister Humza Yousaf has pledged the Scottish Government will work more closely with business

A welcome return to business that matters

Exclusive Unite: 'Labour's back door shenanigans make a good case for devolved rights'

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DAVID PRATT G20: Why all is far from well at the high table of global governance

Anas Sarwar, Scottish Labour leader, and broadcaster Andrew Marr

Anas Sarwar as Scottish Labour leader? Andrew Marr delivers his verdict

David Leask: Can we please stop comparing Airbnb regulation to pogroms?

Opinion David Leask: Can we please stop comparing Airbnb regulation to pogroms?

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First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf, meets children, parents and staff at Rowantree Primary School Early Years Service in Dundee, where he announced a key commitment ahead of the publication of his first Programme for Government.

Opinion Brian Taylor: Humza Yousaf’s Programme isn’t even half the story

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Rubiales’ kiss of striker Jenni Hermoso has proven highly controversial

DANI GARAVELLI Ugly truth of the beautiful game may have gifted women a watershed moment

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Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt

Herald View: Time we were all put out of our misery, including the Tories

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