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Neil Mackay: Sturgeon is failing on core objective - winning the independence argument

Neil Mackay: Sturgeon is failing on core objective - winning the independence argument
IF Scottish independence were a garden, and the SNP the gardener, we’d be looking at a rather tatty, weed-strewn lawn, left ramshackle and unloved for far too long.

University bosses are deeply concerned about the latest research excellence grant allocations.

COMMENT ‘University research cuts should be cause for concern - they undermine a key asset’

President Obama shakes the hand of the Downing Street police officer

Catriona Stewart: Treatment of cleaning staff tells all about Downing Street culture

Mark Zuckerberg

Agenda: We are all living in a virtual dictatorship

Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a press conference in response to the publication of the Sue Gray report Into

PREMIUM Michael Settle: Johnson will believe he has 'got away with it'

Commuters and travellers at Edinburgh's Waverley Station

PREMIUM Andy Maciver: There is a better way to settle public sector pay disputes

Alison Rowat: Good day for Prime Minister but a dreadful one for democracy

Alison Rowat: Good day for Prime Minister but a dreadful one for democracy

Studio artists Luisa Compobassi (left) and Jo Kinsey (right) make their final touches to the wax figure of Queen Elizabeth II at Madame Tussauds London ahead the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

PREMIUM Mark Smith: Would you pass the jubilee nationalism test?

Iain Macwhirter: Partygate’s over. It’s time to call it a day

Iain Macwhirter: Partygate’s over. It’s time to call it a day

Plane leaves Kabul airport during the evacutioan

Teddy Jamieson: What the Afghanistan evacuation report tells us about this awful government

Johnny Depp v Amber Heard lawsuit

Depp v Heard: The case with no winners

Donald Macleod: We can only hope train drivers accept new pay offer

Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a statement to the House of Commons, London, following the publication of Sue Gray's report into Downing Street parties in Whitehall during the coronavirus lockdown.

PREMIUM Westminster sketch: Sir Beer Korma and the great gaseous zeppelin of pomposity

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks with stallholders while stood behind British flags, during an event to promote British businesses, at Downing Street, London. Picture date: Monday May 9, 2022..

PREMIUM Hannah Rodger: Gray report lifts the lid on 'a cesspit full of arrogant, entitled narcissists'

The audience laugh as Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a visit to the JCB cab manufacturing centre in Uttoxeter, while on the General Election campaign trail in 2019

PREMIUM Neil Mackay: Vladimir Putin would be proud of Boris Johnson’s war on truth

Elisabeth Moss stars in the drama series, The Handmaid's Tale, based on the award-winning, best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood

Issue of the Day: How a fireproof book is helping in the fight for freedom of expression

A rainbow coloured kit which will be worn in a competitive fixture in support of football's fight against homophobia by English team Altrincham

PREMIUM Stuart Waiton: Football is being used to shove 'woke' propaganda down fans' throat

The Queen is cheered on by crowds in George Square in Glasgow during her Jubilee visit in 1977

PREMIUM Rosemary Goring: I'll raise a toast to the Queen, while dreaming of the day we abolish the royals

Lisa Ferrie, a Glasgow School of Art student who has used 3D printing technology to create a model of a kidney that could be used to help train cancer surgeons.

Alison McRae: Scotland could be on the verge of tech revolution

Camley's Cartoon: Sturgeon's milestone

PREMIUM Camley's Cartoon: Sturgeon's milestone

Nicola Sturgeon

PREMIUM Adam Tomkins: There is a chance the Supreme Court may not throw out a future IndyRef2 Bill

Then First Minister Alex Salmond and Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon hold copies of the White Paper on independence in 2013

PREMIUM Iain Macwhirter: The big questions Nicola Sturgeon must answer before Indyref2

People walk past a destroyed building in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov).

Ukraine is the first subscription war, where you choose your own version of social media truth

Pollokshaws Burgh Hall on the south side of Glasgow. Pic courtesy of Glasgow City Archives

Who remembers Scotland's old counties and burghs?

Working from home

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A member of the public walks past a telephone box with a Yes campaign poster on May 8, 2014 in Glasgow (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

PREMIUM Neil Mackay: What does independence stand for today?

PREMIUM Brian Wilson: Public ownership of Scotrail was a political trophy – while practicalities were ignored

Jo Coburn interviews Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi on BBC1's Sunday morning

Alison Rowat: Tempers flare as Minister grilled over "secret" meeting

Doug Marr: Are 'deny, delay and defend' the insurance industry’s key principles?

PREMIUM Doug Marr: Are 'deny, delay and defend' the insurance industry’s key principles?

Lesley Riddoch: We must end the scandal of electricity standing charges

PREMIUM Lesley Riddoch: We must end the scandal of electricity standing charges

Labour and independent members of the new South Lanarkshire Council

PREMIUM Mark Smith: The latest 'unionist pact' is a positive sign for Scotland

Kevin McKenna: Does Nicola Sturgeon think Scotland is the most gullible country in the world?

PREMIUM Kevin McKenna: Does Nicola Sturgeon think Scotland is the most gullible country in the world?

The Finnieston Crane and The Clyde Arc on the banks of the River Clyde at dusk

Book is essential reading for anyone wondering what a new Yes Scotland campaign might look like

Boris Johnson addressing the Commons in April following the announcement he is among those fined by police for Covid breaches

Boris Johnson: is the greased piglet running out of wriggle room?

Protest at Holy LochAnti Polaris DemonstrationLaurens Otter, Anti Polaris Demonstrator,heads towards

Herald Decades: The canoe versus the submarine...the first US vessels arrive at Holy Loch 61 years ago

Coleen Rooney's week: When you’re married to Wayne, it pays to develop detective skills

Police officers in front of Britain First and EDL (English Defence League) protestors on Embankment in London. Scotland is not immune from anti-migrant sentiment

PREMIUM David Leask: Why Scotland’s British nationalist fringe has turned on foreigners

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) shake hands before their meeting at the U.S. Capitol on May 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images).

PREMIUM Brian Taylor: Nicola Sturgeon is quietly developing a strategic response to global crises

PREMIUM Kevin McKenna: Mhairi Black should be careful when accusing others of fascism

First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon unveils a specially branded train at Glasgow Queen Street Station as ScotRail transfers from Dutch firm Abellio into public ownership. Picture date: Friday April 1, 2022.

Herald View: Train services must be fixed – and fast – or it could spell disaster for railways

ANTI-POLARIS DEMONSTRATION AT HOLY LOCH . DEMONSTRATOR MIKE NOLAN SITS ASTRIDE THE AFTER-FIN OF THE NUCLEAR SUBMARINE PATRICK HENRY IN THE HOLY LOCH TO-DAY .
STAFF PIC TAKEN 27/3/1961

New Herald series will capture changing face of our nation

A Rangers fan in the Plaza de Espana before the UEFA Europa League Final at the Estadio Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan, Seville.

Donald MacLeod: I'm a Celtic fan. Believe me, I know how Rangers fans feel

PREMIUM Rebecca McQuillan: Will Sturgeon or Johnson carry the can for the cost of living crisis?

Cartoon for 20.5.22

PREMIUM Camley's Cartoon: Inflation and Partygate

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak

PREMIUM Michael Settle: Why increasing numbers of Tories are coming round to a windfall tax

Iain Macwhirter: What could FM do about cost of living other than blame Brexit?

Newsletter Iain Macwhirter: What could FM do about cost of living other than blame Brexit?

The BBC is to broadcast a celebration of the Queen's platinum jubilee

Alison Rowat: Queen or Nicola Sturgeon, make the contest for coverage fair

PREMIUM Mark Smith: Don’t be too hard on football – it’s changing

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss

Can we believe Liz Truss's Protocol plans?

Camley's Cartoon: Cost-of-living crisis and rail dispute

PREMIUM Camley's Cartoon: Cost-of-living crisis and rail dispute

Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg ahead of the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London. Photo: Toby Melville/PA

PREMIUM Neil Mackay: People are angry. They want victims to blame. These are dangerous times

Iain Macwhirter: Somebody remind Sturgeon that Nato is a nuclear alliance

PREMIUM Iain Macwhirter: Somebody remind Sturgeon that Nato is a nuclear alliance

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London.

PREMIUM Westminster sketch: Your MPs love you and vouch that they ain’t misbehavin’

A woman is in front of a McDonald's restaurant near the Red Square in Moscow. Photo by Vlad Karkov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

McDonald's pulls out of Russia