It’s difficult to identify anything the Labour leader has done which has contributed positively towards their polling lead.

THE cost of Nicola Sturgeon's growing army of spin doctors has reached a record £3.7m - while plans are being made for over £30m in public sector staffing costs cuts.

By Billy Briggs

From country to folk via synth-pop while remaining really, really successful.

By Kathleen Nutt

Ian Blackford has written to Kier Starmer to call for an official vote of no confidence.

THEIR brutal crimes might have been committed decades ago with killers Graham McGill and William MacDowell evading justice.

Four Corners: A personal take on stories from across the world by Foreign Editor David Pratt

Professor Tony Pollard is a renowned battlefield archaeologist. He has uncovered astonishing truths about Jacobites, Bannockburn, the Second World War, Britain's wars of empire and even the Falklands campaign – and used his skills to bring peace to...

IT would be funny if it were not so serious. The very idea Boris Johnson is “up for it,” making an improbable return to Number 10, should fill all of us with a sense of dread.

For years they were advertised for sale off the shelf as “zero-tax offshore companies”. Then they were damned, by Transparency International, as “Britain’s home-grown secrecy vehicles”.

IT really is a sign of desperation that Martin Redfern (Letters, October 16) tries to cover up the Conservative Party's chaotic mess of a government and the civil war raging in its ranks by attacking Nicola Sturgeon for using the word "detest" to des...

HE was one of the 20th century's greatest writers, whose works - notably Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four - are regarded as even more relevant today than in the 1940s when they were published.

 

The BBC presenter asked to be left out of the debate and still got pulled in.

With The Power Of The Doctor about to air, Danielle de Wolfe speaks to the 13th Doctor Jodie Whittaker and her co-stars to find out more.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Whether you've aced the music spin-off Heardle or you've got the film version Framed beat, it might be time to raise the stakes. 

Described as a game for 'cinephiles and casual movie watchers alike' it is inspired by the worldwide popular guessing games. 

It's estimated the former PM has around half of the backers he would need to make it to the members' vote.

FROM October 22-31 the Tower of London will be holding special Halloween nights. “Watched over by the ravens, you’ll follow in the footsteps of our infamous prisoners as you wander the Tower grounds at the spookiest time of the year,” the websi...

YOUR opening question is bit harsh I think; ‘How does it feel to be labelled a fanciful flibbertigibbet, an attention-seeking political desperate with as much hold on reality as Alice had on dropping down the rabbit hole?’

Laughs can be found in the funniest places. Take, for example, The Larkins (STV, Sunday), back for a second series.

It is the kind of neighbourhood that cheesy guidebooks – if they give it any thought at all – might call boho, hipster even. Montreal’s once firmly working-class La Petite-Patrie really is gentrifying, internationalising.

AS someone who grew up with the internet, I’m no stranger to online discourse, and being a massive linguistics nerd, the way in which some people judge others for how they choose to express themselves will never not fascinate me.

AND thus did the fighter quit. And so did Liz Truss find the contemporary Conservative Party to be all but ungovernable in government.

THE fall of the pound, pension funds under threat, mortgage costs soaring, spiralling inflation.

By Scott Wright

A senior academic has resigned from his post at one of Scotland's oldest universities after 35 years claiming "a culture of misogyny is flourishing' within the medical school.

Maggie Lennon runs a programme that helps refugees and migrants acquire the skills and training to settle in Scotland

SERIOUS damage has been inflicted. Soaring bills have been exacerbated by recklessness in government.

In hindsight, the Brahan Seer – whose amazing predictive powers had an uncanny knack of coming true – should have seen it coming.

HE has not even officially declared – yet – but Boris Johnson has already become the focal point of the race to succeed Liz Truss as Conservative leader and Prime Minister.

IT is said that when fighting broke out on Easter Monday 1916 between republican and British forces on St Stephen's Green opposite the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, the only thing that got between some upper class ladies and their afternoon tea was a s...

UK retail sales fell by far more than expected in September as consumers cut back on all categories of spending, with food sales hit particularly hard.

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By David Clark

ANOTHER week, another set of statistics painting a dismal picture of A&E in meltdown.

A RECRUITMENT drive is underway to find a specialist doctor from outside of Scotland to join an independent review into neonatal deaths.

By Scott Wright

IT is astonishing that with his journalistic and City backgrounds, Kwasi Kwarteng did not foresee the domestic and global markets’ reactions to his uncosted Budget proposals rushed through in 25 minutes; likewise Liz Truss, whose accountant husband...

Palme d'Or winner Ruben Östlund turns his lens on the super-rich in blackly comic ship-borne satire Triangle Of Sadness

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By Allan Aikman

LISA GRAY, AUTHOR

AS the autumn nights lengthen and a chill creeps into the air, it is tradition to scare ourselves silly and indulge in some spine-tingling fun at this time of year.

The People’s Parliament

AS the 10th anniversary of its final day falls this weekend, fans of Ceefax are becoming nostalgic for simpler times when, in a pre-internet, pre-rolling news existence, the world’s first teletext information service proved a vital tool for househo...

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