WE know the Tories love the royals, but even they must be cringing at Theresa May today. Thankfully, there are no longer any actual obligations to bow upon meeting a member of the royal family. Nobody seems to have told the Prime Minister
SINCE the end of degree show at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), a cacophony of emotions have riddled the last week. On Friday 15th, we graduated, we celebrated and we mourned. I am finding solace looking at the annual photographs of students on
I DESPAIR when the First Minister is accused by Mr Jim Sillars of wanting to send non-reserved powers back to the EU, when also seeking to retain such powers at Holyrood, not Westminster. This appears to show a lack of understanding of how some EU
A PRIVATE school in West London has taken 'out-of-touch' to Conservative-peer levels with its special lunch offering. St Paul's Girls' School is facing a backlash after attention was drawn to its "Austerity Day". Pupils, who pay fees of
TWO Scottish entrepreneurial companies have teamed up to create a craft gin inspired by the prehistoric landscape of Caithness. Caithness-based Dunnet Bay Distillers has developed a limited edition with archaeological charity Caithness Broch Project (
MPs have called for an inquiry into Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) over a fraud at its HBOS unit in Reading after a Scottish businessman published online a confidential report into the issue.Neil Mitchell, a frequent critic of Britain’s big banks, alleged
A SCOTTISH salmon farm in Orkney has been named Outstanding Producer of the Year by Marks and Spencer. The Scottish Sea Farms’s team in Wyre won the accolade at the Farming for the Future Awards 2018. The 1909-tonne capacity farm was established
PWC has appointed former Shell and Deloitte executive Steven Heeps as a director at its Glasgow office.Heeps will sit within the growing risk assurance team, bringing finance and technology expertise to the firm, where he will work with clients across
CROATIA’S players have stoked ethnic tensions by celebrating their 3-0 World Cup victory against Argentina by singing a nationalist song glorifying the Balkan country’s wartime struggle against the Serbs.A brief clip shows Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren
DONALD Trump was told yesterday by the UN Human rights office to make major changes to immigration polices and look for alternatives to detention. UN human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said children should never be held in custody, even with
THE world has this week expressed its disgust at images from the United States showing young children ripped from their parents at the border with Mexico and being kept in cages. "With the exception of Nigel Farage and his ilk," as the First Minister
ITALY’S interior minister has said Malta should allow a Dutch-flagged rescue ship carrying hundreds of rescued migrants to make port there because it is in Maltese waters. “We ask ... that Malta finally opens one of its ports and lets these desperate
THE European Union is enforcing tariffs on €2.85 billion of US products in retaliation for duties the Trump administration has put on European steel and aluminium.The goods targeted include typical American products such as bourbon, peanut butter and
Unsung Heroines: Danielle de Niese on the Lost World of Female Composers, BBC4, 8pmTHE soprano explores the lives and works of five female composers, from the middle ages to the late 20th century, who were famous in their lifetimes but whose work was
THE power of cinema can sometimes provide us with a unique perspective on a familiar subject. That’s certainly the case with this raw, reality-inspired coming-of-age crime drama which gives a voice to a community rarely depicted in film and tracks
THIS week the world news has focused its attention on Trump and his policy of separating children from their families and putting them into camps, simply because they are trying to emigrate to the USA. The stark reality of this policy has made waves
Shinzō Abe is responding to changing security environment in the Asia-Pacific - but what does it hope to achieve?
WILDCAT fans have launched a new campaign - #GenerationWildcat - to encourage people to help save the species. Scottish Wildcat Action (SWA) wants outdoor types, farmers and gamekeepers to join their fight to bring the “Highland Tiger” back from
IT'S always interesting to see whether news outlets choose to use "British" or "Scottish" in their reporting. The classic example is Andy Murray: Scottish when he loses, British when he wins. That isn't even near as egregious as what Sky
LIK aabody else ah hae bin super-enjoyin this richt braw spell o waither we hae bin haein ower the past hauntle o weeks (tho Hurricane Hector did pit a bit sprag in ma wheel!). Wark that hus bin lang neglected in the gairden an allotment at the auld
I AM writing to comment on the recent pieces by Kirsty Hughes (June 20) and Lesley Riddoch (June 21) about Brexit. European Movement in Scotland (EMiS), which I chair, is a co-organiser of the Scotland For Europe campaign, along with Kirsty, and other
GEORGE Clooney and his slick group of casino thieves have had their fun, thrice over. Now it’s time for the girls to get in on the caper. While the actual thieving spectacle itself feels less consequential and thrilling than any of its namesake predecessors
‘WHAT about the men?” is one of those phrases that tends to raise feminist hackles, and often with good reason. Too often it is deployed in an attempt to derail discussions about inequality of the sexes and how to address it, or in a bid to portray
The Government have survived another fight along the path to Brexit, but that won't be enough.
HOLYROOD will not give consent to any further Brexit legislation until the "broken" devolution system is fixed, Scotland's Brexit Minister has indicated. Mike Russell said the Scottish Government no longer trusted UK ministers following a breakdown
What caught the eye of our intrepid press today? Starting with The Herald we have the latest on the rise of racism that the Brexit vote sparked. The absolute state of the UK, honestly... The Herald have also led with the news
TWO Scots have been included in the initial round of selections for Great Britain’s team for the World Judo Championships, which will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan from the 20-27th September.Sally Conway, who won Olympic bronze in 2016, headlines the
IT has always been something of a curiosity that for all the world-class bike riders Scotland has produced, this country has never been home to a professional cycling team. Sir Chris Hoy, Robert Millar and Graeme Obree are just a few of the names who
THERESA May is under pressure to explain why she did not turn up “for her day job” and attend the British Irish Council summit.The UK prime Minister did not join other leaders at the gathering, despite crucial issues on Brexit, devolution and the Irish
SOME diners at the food stop stationed next to a city park just want the gourmet bacon and avocado roll. Others are looking for answers. The shining airstream truck on Glasgow’s Mansfield Park has welcomed delegations from England, Ireland, El
IT took nine stab wounds for Callum Hutchison to decide he was “done”. The father-of-two had been attacked on his doorstep by more than one assailant. It was the result, he says, of violent acts “catching up” with him. Those acts had already
MORE proof has emerged that migrants are managing to overturn UK Government visa refusals after a judicial review – contrary to what Immigration Minister Caroline Noakes told MPs. The National told yesterday how Glasgow SNP MP Alison Thewliss had
AN aspiring midwife who has had her right to study revoked by the Home Office met with Scottish Health Secretary Shona Robison yesterday in her bid to stay and train in Scotland. Dami Samuel, who has lived in the UK all her adult life, secured
THE Diary was pleased that it only took Sir Alan Sugar one whole hour to make a heartfelt apology for his “humorous” tweet about Senegal’s World Cup side. Sir Alan seemed to think that by associating a great African nation’s young athletes with the
A NEW school in Edinburgh, a stunning modern home by a Highland loch and the building that houses the archive of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in Wick have been chosen as three Scottish winners of the UK’s most prestigious architectural awards
THE Scottish Government this week launched a consultation into the future of farm and rural funding in Scotland post-Brexit. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) accounts for the biggest single slice of the EU budget, accounting for 38% of all
IN Kaliningrad and Volgograd and Yaroslavl, nobody wants to talk politics. But as the globe turns its attention to the World Cup – enjoying the matches, cheering the teams, and trying to forget world politics – the life and times of Lochaber refugee
CHARGES and checks faced by EU nationals who want to stay in UK after Brexit have been branded “outrageous” by a senior SNP MP. The Home Office revealed yesterday that a new immigration scheme for EU citizens is set to receive its first applications
GLASGOW businessman and philanthropist, Lord William Haughey, has been commended for his “huge contribution to Scotland” as he was named EY Scottish entrepreneur of year. The co-founder and chairman of City Holdings Group triumphed as the overall
A CATALAN mayor has been banned from public office for six months for refusing to remove an independence flag from her town hall. Montse Venturós, mayor of the northern town of Berga, was accused of disobedience over her actions during two election
A WORLD record-breaking bridge made from 200,000 Lego bricks has gone on display in Scotland.The suspension bridge, which is just short of the length of three double-decker buses, holds the Guinness World Record for the longest Lego brick bridge.It has
A FULLY funded three-day training programme is giving young people the chance to become top activists on nuclear disarmament. The Youth Peace Academy is inviting 18 to 30-years-olds residing in Scotland to take part in a packed training programme
IT first appeared three years ago at the first March and Rally for Scottish Independence in Glasgow and he or she has been at the subsequent marches in the city.Yet it was its standout role in the 60,000-strong All Under One Banner (AUOB) march in Glasgow
THEY’VE been called the worst roadworks in Scotland and now people from the area around the Greenlaw-Mauricewood development at Penicuik in Midlothian have dubbed it “the chicane”.The temporary roadworks on the A702, the main Edinburgh to Carlisle route
THIS year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival opened with this heartfelt hug of drama from director Marc Turtletaub, one whose pieces fit together snugly and sends you away with gentle sense of wonderment about finding your own happiness in the
‘OUR country has reached a crucial crossroads … If you chose to vote for the AKP and Erdogan … the destiny of 81 million will be entirely at the mercy of one person.” This warning against impending dictatorship comes from a rare appearance of presidential
MARK McDonald should have to deliver a personal apology in the Holyrood chamber after a complaint that he sexually harassed a woman worker was upheld, a leading feminist has said. Kirstein Rummery, of the Women’s Equality Party (WEP), said a Scottish
REPORTERS travelled from as far away as France to join the people of Ulva on the day they took control of their island. Rebecca Munro and her children Matilda, seven, and Ross, four, cut a ribbon declaring the island officially open to the whole
A PIONEERING rehabilitation project for violent offenders is poised to expand across Scotland, The National has learned. Street food social enterprise Street & Arrow, set up by an arm of Police Scotland, employs those with a history of offending
A LABOUR councillor has been criticised for attacking a journalist as not a “real Scot” after he wrote a sympathetic article about the SNP . Alex Gallagher apologised for the comment he made about former Herald columnist Chris Deerin who penned
YOUNG women are being left behind in the vaping revolution as they continue to smoke tobacco, according to a think tank.And a report from the right-wing Adam Smith Institute claims that reforming laws that discourage switching from cigarettes to vapour
A HEALTH check of the UK’s small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has highlighted the threat Brexit can pose to their growth in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the less dynamic areas of England. The UK Local Growth Dashboard 2018, from
SCOTTISH airports could benefit from an extra 100 flights a week to and from London under plans to ring-fence domestic slots on the proposed third runway at Heathrow, the UK Aviation Minister has said.But Scottish Greens co-convenor Patrick Harvie said
