Gender studies has become a lucrative and prestigious topic at the world’s leading institutions and universities have moved to lure its scholars, not least because of the insights they cast right across teaching and research.

When Nicola Sturgeon finally appears before the Holyrood committee investigating the Salmond affair, she will be insulated by that shield of moral self-confidence that has become her trade mark. More in sorrow than in anger, the First Minister wil...

SCOTTISH construction chiefs are calling for the Treasury to change VAT reforms which they say could cripple them further and cause massive job losses.

The Scottish Government has been urged to do more to protect patients from catching coronavirus after another record week of infections on hospital wards.

Amanda Holden has been reported to police after breaching Coronavirus lockdown rules in England.

SOME of Scotland’s country estates are facing a financial crisis after a state aid loophole in a rate relief scheme hits green hydro-electric operators who produce almost a fifth of renewable energy output.

As the torrid process of Trump’s impeachment trial comes to a head, few betted on any conviction anyway. Foreign Editor David Pratt explains why the biggest loser stands to be America itself

By Vicky Allan

Donald Trump was acquitted on Saturday of inciting the horrific attack on the US Capitol, concluding a historic impeachment trial that spared him the first-ever conviction of a current or former US president.

JUSTIN Currie has revealed that he thought he might be too old to make a new Del Amitri album. The 56-year-old frontman of the Scottish band has told The Herald Magazine that he feared he wouldn’t have the same energy that he did when he was you...

The world can seem hostile at times and no wonder – it has always been dominated by psychopaths, and the 21st century is supercharging their predatory behaviour. In a Herald on Sunday exclusive, leading authority on psychopaths Kevin Dutton reveals...

BACK in the 18th century, the village of Gretna Green was Britain’s Las Vegas – and the smithy there its Little White Wedding Chapel. Some of that buzz still endures. Last year’s leap year even saw a wedding surge that made Scotland's mini w...

By Deborah Anderson

THE truth is, Justin Currie says, he was worried that they’d be too old. When the idea of doing another Del Amitri album – the first since 2002’s Can You Do Me Good? nearly 20 years ago – was first mooted by his bandmate Iain Harvie, the 5...

There’s a moment Kieran* remembers well that sums up the stigma and fear of being a gay man living in the city branded the “Aids capital of Europe” at the peak of the HIV crisis.

When we could travel anywhere, anytime and with the greatest of ease we used to say that the world was getting smaller.

CLICK here to read The Future of Education magazine, a 60-page special publication that complements and expands upon the insight provided by The Herald’s ongoing campaign – launched last August to create a platform for teachers, government, p...

Here are five fun things that you can do this Valentine's Day during lockdown. We also look at the Covid guidelines to make the day as stress-free.

The Churchill Barriers, built more than 75 years ago from hundreds of thousands of concrete and rubble, are now in danger due to the impacts of climate change.

Divers have removed ice blocking a water treatment plant to restore supplies to thousands of homes and businesses.

THE newspaper you hold in your hands, or are reading on your phone or laptop, is 238 years old. That’s a fair old age. Back then, the big news was the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, ending the Revolutionary War, which recogn...

Thousands of homes in Inverclyde are facing water disruption after ice blocked the Greenock Water Treatment Works at Loch Thom.

Tributes have been paid to Scottish showbiz legend Sydney Devine who has died at the age of 81.

There have been 908 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

AS they sought to convince us that all would be well in an independent Scotland, the SNP’s big heart did a lot of the heavy lifting. This party seemed to have discovered the Golden Mean of political engagement: they had a way of appealing over t...

Singing legend Sydney Devine has died at age 81, according to reports.

ALTHOUGH I don’t exactly have the fondest of memories of Scotland’s last game against Wales, because that was when I injured my shoulder, the 14-10 win was a really significant result all the same. In fact, it had an impact which could well st...

MY theme is the follicle of man. Coiffure: it’s a hairy topic. People get heated aboot it. It was ever thus. Grooming of the cranium is supposedly the sine qua non – ken? – of civilisation. The Western world came closest to collapsing during...

As imagined by Brian Beacom

IT has taken more than a year for the UK to introduce hotel quarantine for international arrivals, but only a few weeks for the plan to descend into what can be politely described as a guddle.

THE Union of the United Kingdom is now at “real risk,” Lord Heseltine has warned, arguing that if the SNP lost a second independence referendum, it would swiftly begin the push for a third one.

The army will be on the "front line" of Covid-19 vaccination and testing the Defence Secretary has said.

A weather warning of snow and ice has been issued for much of Scotland.

AGENCY nurses should be entitled to the Scottish Government’s £500 thank-you payments alongside NHS staff, campaigners have argued.

MOST nights I sleep well, secure as I am in the rehabilitation clinic – no worries about being alone in a French once-farmhouse. But some nights the dark thoughts push through my constant fatigue and I lie there knowing there is no light at the ...

The latest Scottish weekly coronavirus figures have been released, highlighting hotspots of Covid-19 per 100,000 of the population and the risk in each neighbourhood.

A SURGE of businesses are expected to finally go bust this year as support peters out.

A BURST water main has flooded roads in the West End of Glasgow with residents in G11, G12 and G13 losing water.

A BREAKDOWN in community supports and pressure on carers has led to more elderly Scots being admitted to care homes and at an earlier stage than expected, according to charities and families.

US senators are set to vote on whether Donald Trump will be held accountable for inciting the deadly attack at the Capitol after a speedy impeachment trial.

Treatments for Covid-19 will soon be fast-tracked through the UK’s clinical trial system, meaning they could be available on the NHS in months rather than years.

“DECEMBER 3rd, 1986. I want to be anorexic!!”

SHE could have done what most people do and trawl their phone or social media sites in their lunch hour, however Scotland’s latest crime fiction author put her’s to good use and managed to pen half her debut novel at her desk.

THEY were images which provided the inspiration for some of the settings of Sir Walter Scott’s poetry and The Waverly Novels and date back to the 18th and 19th centuries.

THESE days, what with digital technology and podcasting, anyone can have their own radio show. I’m pleased that Edwyn Collins and Grace Maxwell now have theirs.

A stabbing of a boy in a Glasgow South Side park is being treated as a "targeted attack".

Paesano at Home

PICTURE the scene: sitting nestled in a window seat as sweeping panoramas unfold. Trundling through rugged glens and mist-strewn moors. Skirting the edges of majestic mountains and traversing remote coastal stretches. A smattering of landmarks –...

People told Salma Hayek her "career would die" when she hit her mid-thirties.

The UK could face a coronavirus wave as big as the current one if lockdown restrictions are lifted too quickly, a scientist advising the Government has said.