FOR a limited time, you can subscribe to The National for a whole year for just £10 – so I want to highlight the kind of journalism that will give you full access to.
This best-ever digital subscription offer is to mark our 10th birthday. When we launched, we were told we could expect to fold before long. Instead, in 2018, we were busy launching the Sunday National. And we're still going full throttle now.
In highlighting the journalism that The National produces, I could be selective and pick and choose some of the pieces I’m proudest of.
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Instead, I want to give you a sense of an average day. And so below, I’m listing out the big hits from our most recent edition of the Sunday National.
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I believe the range of stories on offer here, produced by our fantastic team of journalists, speaks for itself.
From covering republican protests to putting a spotlight on Scottish Labour that is so often missing, a £10 subscription gives you full access to reports you’ll read nowhere else – and enable us to do even more.
So, last Sunday, we had…
• Pictures and a report from the 'Not My King' protest outside Holyrood as the Scottish Parliament marked 25 years
• A special report on the scandals hitting Keir Starmer from our reporter James Walker, who had been at Labour conference in Liverpool
• An exclusive report on a Labour peer defending a deal that would see the party rent offices owned by his son
• An expert gave their take on Stephen Noon and Kezia Dugdale's constitutional report
• A picture special and interview with a photographer who wanted to show the world how beautiful Scotland is – with this country having given her hope after hard times
• One of the main opposition groups to the Assisted Dying Bill had set up a stall in the Parliament under a different name, we revealed
• An interview Christine Grahame on 25 years in Holyrood
• Claims that Holyrood consultations were being manipulated to game results
• An investigation into how to tackle disinformation on Twitter/X
• The Ferret's report on high levels of faeces in wild swimming locations
• A feature on 10 years of a unique Scottish B&B in Wigtown
• A report on the key role a solitary rowan tree is playing in supporting conservation efforts
• A travel piece on Mallorca and overtourism
• A review of The Outrun – a film with the Orkney Islands at its heart
• An opinion piece on how Zionism is being used to fuel Islamophobia
That's not to mention other news reports from the day and all our regular Seven Days broadsheet pull-out features – Andrew Tickell, Rhoda Meek, Ruth Wishart, David Pratt, travel from Robin McKelvie with a Scottish eye wherever he is in the world, reviews of Scottish theatre... and much more.
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