Let’s just call it quits then.  When the Supreme Court says there’s no lawful way out of a voluntary union, it’s evidently time for Yessers to give up completely.

IN the early months of Covid-19, the Scottish and UK Governments attempted to normalise the concept of state-sponsored euthanasia in the care home sector. It was only after a public outcry, borne on what we considered to be a basic sense of morality,...

My fellow supporters of Scottish democracy, I’d like to discuss the speeches Nicola Sturgeon gave after the Supreme Court ruling. Who was she speaking to? Why did she say what she said? And does she realise voters like us aren’t who she says we a...

WHEN the pandemic hit, Euan Cameron had already been developing his video interview business for a number of years and was able to hit the ground running.

Millions of people living in Scotland are worried about the cost of living this winter, new analysis from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has found.

NEARLY 5000 cancer diagnoses a year in Scotland could be avoided if the "unacceptable inequalities" in incidence and survival between the most and least deprived communities were eradicated, according to a landmark report.

THE head of Scotland’s library service said she would like to see as many children as possible become library members “at birth”.

Chancellors throughout the ages have loved to tinker.

MY abiding memory of the 2014 referendum is the aggressive dismissal of “expert opinion”. Academics and others who wanted to debate the arguments for independence seriously were denigrated by the Yes campaign – “a movement of angry culture wa...

IT was a passing comment from a groundsman at Pollok Country Park to artist Alec Finlay that reaffirmed that the National Covid Memorial was beginning to help people to heal.

By Jemiel Benison

Anyone who loves gardening will love a gardening book, whether it offers aspirational designs, practical tips or just novel ideas for how to perk up your outside space.

I’m very fortunate to have been well through my eighth decade before spending a single night in hospital. That all changed earlier this year on becoming ill in Gran Canaria. It came as a shock to learn I needed immediate surgery. The procedure was ...

AMID these trying times, a surprising trend has emerged - a surging interest in luxury advent calendars.

WINTER is almost here, and Britain is rapidly turning into Brrrr-itain, a benighted isle of shivering, sniffling and sneezing citizens.

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Ever made an impulse buy that you almost immediately regretted? How much did it cost you? For most of us, the answer to that question is a monetary value. For maverick billionaire Elon Musk, the answer may very well be “credibility”.

RETIRED IT engineer John Alexander experienced the benefits of screening first-hand when his bowel cancer was detected in 2019.

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Here are some hints and tips to help you crack November 28's Quordle word puzzle.

A NEW outdoor business set up by a nightclub owner and team has pledged investment after securing the lease of a campsite.

MORE than 15,000 people across Europe have signed an open letter asking EU leaders to “clearly signal” a path back for Scotland to ­becoming a member in advance of an ­independence referendum.

MINISTERS have come under fire for costing Scotland billions of pounds in failing to set up a publicly-owned energy company because it did not have the powers - while Wales forges ahead with a similar plan.

The entrepreneur is facing questions over her alleged profiting on PPE contracts.

A cost of living gap between the rise in Scottish wages and the soaring rate of inflation has doubled in just six months, the Herald on Sunday can reveal.

SCOTLAND’s official heritage agency is at the centre of a “scandal” after providing a £150,000 golden goodbye to one director and a near 20% pay hike to another since Covid.

Animals known for their bright white winter pelages are “standing out like sore thumbs” in Britain’s largest national nature reserve as it sees less snow that lasts for shorter periods of time.

IN the run up to the Supreme Court’s ruling that Holyrood cannot hold an independence referendum without Westminster’s agreement the expectation in SNP circles was there would be no end of Conservative gloating if Nicola Sturgeon lost.

MORE than £1.5million of taxpayers’ cash will be spent annually funding a 25-strong team of civil servants to work on the Scottish Government’s independence push, it can be revealed.

IF we harboured any doubts that the second Scottish independence referendum campaign has started in earnest these have been dispelled by various comments from assorted members of the UK establishment.

THE UK Government is “scared” of allowing a referendum on Scottish independence because it knows it will lose, the depute leader of the SNP has said.

RISHI Sunak is facing a growing rebellion of senior Conservatives who are joining Boris Johnson and Liz Truss in trying to force him to drop a ban on new onshore wind farms.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said there ‘simply isn’t the money’.

Keith Brown accused political rivals of ‘running scared of democracy’.

UNDER David Cameron’s premiership - with Nigel Farage’s UKIP breathing down Conservative necks - it became something of an annual ritual for the then Prime Minister to commit to cutting annual net migration to the tens of thousands. But, of cours...

It’s the last thing the regime in Tehran wants, but opposition to its rule is finding a way of getting its message out beyond the suppression of mass protests at home.

A Scots scientist has backed calls for Covid boosters to be extended to the general population to protect health and ease pressure on the NHS.

This week our Writer at Large went to interview the renowned psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson about his latest book exploring how a midlife crisis is actually good for you. Soon, though, he found himself on the couch, discovering more than he bargaine...

FORMER Scottish Greens MSP Andy Wightman has revealed he doesn't support another independence referendum next year and won't until support for leaving the Union is “sustained”.

PEOPLE who want to build their own houses but who can’t access standard bank lending can apply for a loan from the Scottish Government of up to £175,000 to help with the development costs of their home.

With its asbestos roof, bland exterior, dirt floor and wooden pens, the old auction mart in the Sutherland village of Rogart seemed to have little going for it.

THE former SNP cabinet minister Alex Neil has urged Nicola Sturgeon to withdraw her 'high risk' strategy to use the next general election as a 'de facto' referendum.

PATRICK Harvie and Lorna Slater will remain the co-leaders of the Scottish Greens and government ministers after members of their party voted against separating the roles.

The elaborate façade and red sandstone were the cutting edge of style of its time: when Glasgow’s first evening newspaper opened its doors in 1889, it wrote its own headlines.

HOW can Nicola Sturgeon survive in office given her "detestable" Tories remark and her new assertion that the separatists are now "Scotland's democracy movement"? Her approach has gone over the score. She cannot accept that she is wrong in any way, s...

HUNDREDS of care homes could close in Scotland if issues around the cost-of-living and NHS crises are not addressed, ministers have been warned.

A transatlantic flight from Germany to the USA was forced to perform an emergency landing at Glasgow Airport on Sunday.

Our choice of programmes to watch week beginning Saturday, November 26

Former First Minister Alex Salmond said Alba will convene a special national assembly in Perth on December 10, which will be open to any member of the public.

An accident and emergency doctor has warned it is “terrifying” to think how the NHS will fare this winter.