FORMER Rangers administrator David Whitehouse admitted that some conversation with controversial former owner Craig Whyte were not appropriate after being accused of treating one meeting "like lads in the pub".

The Health Secretary will face MPs on Thursday over allegations made by former senior No 10 aide Dominic Cummings that he lied to colleagues and performed “disastrously” during the Covid pandemic.

SOMETHING unpleasant is starting to happen to the independence debate. It’s changing and being shaped by the UK’s ugly, endless ‘culture wars’ – an interminably stupid phrase, up there with ‘woke’, but one which is laced with the fat...

SCOTLAND'S local authorities face a "clear risk" to their financial sustainability without a radical shake-up in the way they are funded.

Committees. Not usually a subject to set the pulse racing.

HE became one of the greatest football managers in the world, his name a byword for determination. But a new documentary sets out how close Sir Alex Ferguson once came to quitting football.

DOMINIC Cummings began his marathon session before MPs yesterday by saying sorry. Right back at you, fella. I apologise for ever doubting your appearance would live up to the hype, and sorry for wondering if your criticism of Boris Johnson and his...

By Ian McConnell

A Rangers administrator said fans' attempts to be involved in the purchase of Rangers were "akin to herding cats" and had referred to one supporters' representative as a "c*ck".

The SNP Government has been accused of appearing to break a manifesto commitment after the Education Secretary gave her blessing to a consultation on proposals for a “shared” Gaelic-English schools campus in Edinburgh.

HIGHER rates of advanced dementia may have led to larger care homes experiencing more Covid-related deaths, according to a sector expert.

There is a 40% chance of the world temporarily hitting the 1.5C temperature rise threshold in one of the next five years, scientists have warned.

An investigator of one of science’s great unsolved mysteries has become the first woman to be appointed Astronomer Royal for Scotland.

A shock declaration from the international energy watchdog could reignite the debate about the future of the once mighty North Sea oil and gas industry and leave ministers and consumers alike facing hard choices.

ENERGY giant SSE is making a bid to ramp up growth in the windfarm market off Scotland significantly in a move it expects will provide a boost to the supply chain, which would be badly-needed.

A home security start up has won £1.5 million backing from Gareth Williams who helped grow Skyscanner into one of Scotland’s most successful technology firms.

WHY we still need to be cautious in the Covid-era, the plight of care for the elderly and the future for culture were the coronavirus topics debated by columnists in the newspapers.

DOMINIC Cummings was at the heart of the Westminster Government in the early stages of the pandemic and, yesterday, he described the situation as follows (deep breath): chaos, complacency, charlatans everywhere, mounting panic, catastrophic mistakes ...

YOU may have heard the news that traditional kilt-making has been added to the list of crafts that are in danger of disappearing, so we should probably talk about what’s at risk here. We should also talk about the weird and, to be honest, troubl...

Bowled over

WHEN Nicola Sturgeon rages that any attempt to stop Indyref2 would be anti-democratic, she should look in the mirror. The SNP government has repeatedly waved through ministerial approval for major windfarm developments that have been rejected by l...

IAIN Macwhirter's comment that “the Scottish Government made exactly the same mistakes as Mr Johnson. She [the First Minister] similarly delayed lockdown in March 2020, halted community testing and failed to protect care homes” is riddled with er...

NICOLA Sturgeon has issued a tit-for-tat response after Downing Street tried to blame the Scottish Government for the cancellation of a virtual covid summit.

A FEMALE SNP candidate who topped the party's list at the election has spoken out about it's failure to deal with abuse from a fellow SNP member.

BORIS Johnson is not a “fit and proper person” to lead the country through the coronavirus crisis, according to his former closest adviser.

PEOPLE observing the unfolding drama around the UK’s planned free trade agreement with Australia could be forgiven for thinking – given the noise from Conservative government figures promoting a deal and understandable furore over key aspects ...

HUNDREDS of Glasgow fan zone tickets have been cancelled after a sale "fiasco" in the "interest of fairness".

AN SNP MP has challenged Dominic Cummings over why 13-year-old school children could understand the need to close international borders, but the Government could not.

Police investigating the suspected firebombing of Celtic Chief Executive Peter Lawwell's home say they are hunting two cars seen in the area.

NICOLA Sturgeon refused to intervene to help Rangers when it financially imploded saying the Scottish Government did not want to be seen as partisan.

Scottish Green MSPs yesterday breached Covid rules by gathering in an Edinburgh pub in a group of more than three households.

NICOLA Sturgeon has discussed a formal cooperation deal with the Scottish Greens in Holyrood, it has been reported.

NICOLA Sturgeon's government has been blamed by Downing Street for the collapse of a four-nations coronavirus summit.

Amazon is buying Hollywood film studio MGM, home of the James Bond franchise, for $8.45 billion (£6bn), giving it a huge library of films and TV shows and ramping up competition with streaming rivals led by Netflix and Disney+.

MAY is the month, it seems, when the English try to change our minds.

THE HEAD of the UK Civil Service suggested advising the public to hold 'chicken pox parties' to spread coronavirus across the country, a committee of MPs has heard.

SPEAKING to Holyrood Magazine about the anti-deportation protests on Kenmure Street in Glasgow, former justice secretary Humza Yousaf said the public looked to him as a “voice of justice”.

By Professor David Cole-Hamilton

The National Records of Scotland (NRS) has released a breakdown of coronavirus deaths by the hospital they occurred in

There have been 546 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

BORIS Johnson has faced questions over the evidence of his former adviser Dominic Cummings and was challenged not to block a second independence referendum.

Cummings’ recollections about the Government’s response in the critical early days of the pandemic made you think of a chimpanzees’ tea-party – only with less mess.

Data from the National Records of Scotland show that only four deaths where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate were registered during the past week

I HAVE nothing against Angus but it is beyond doubt that the ancient county’s many assets do not extend to ferries or islands.

IT’S a good rule of thumb never to believe anonymous quotes, especially when they say just what you want them to.

POLICE have received “a number of complaints” following a tweet from an SNP councillor which said “we hate the United Kingdom” in the aftermath of the Eurovision results.

THE PRIME Minister's former senior aide Dominic Cummings has apologised to the public for the Government's handling of the pandemic in a bombshell evidence session to MPs.

THE disgraced finance secretary Derek Mackay and dozens of other former MSPs will tomorrow share golden goodbyes costing taxpayers more than £2.2million.

Data showing the Scots care home providers which recorded the highest and lowest Covid-related death rates has been published.

AN SNP MP has been left red-faced after accusing the Scotland Office of spending money on social media advertising during the election period, when they did not do so.