Leaders: Better there be no royal rush to sue over pictures
IT WAS bound to happen sooner or later: pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge are taken without her knowledge or approval, while on a private holiday, in the private grounds of a chateau in Provence....
View ArticleJane Devine: We need public figures to have the courage of their convictions...
The headline was “A Good Day to Bury Bad News”. The e-mail it referred to actually said: “It’s now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury. Councillors’ expenses?” That was more than ten...
View ArticleRona Dougall: Read into it as much as you possibly can
IT WAS a weekend to die for. Fans with murder on their minds flocked like literature-hungry vultures to Stirling for the inaugural “Bloody Scotland”.It’s a brand-new, three-day festival to celebrate...
View ArticleSarah Chilton: Overhaul of employment law is a missed opportunity
IN THE run-up to last week’s announcement by Business Secretary Vince Cable about streamlining employment law, debate on the subject tended to focus on small firms which, it was said, were most...
View ArticleBrian Monteith: A real chip off the old-style Labour block
INSTEAD of stripping schools of charitable status, Neil Findlay should consider giving it to state schools, writes Brian MonteithPrivate schools give far more to the state than they take from it. What...
View ArticleFrom the archive: McConnell is plotting a decade in power 17 September, 2005
JACK McConnell wants to be Scotland’s First Minister for at least ten years, handing over power only after he has won the 2011 election.Mr McConnell, who became First Minister in 2001, has told close...
View ArticleFarming comment: Problems lurk beneath despite the calm on the surface
The early morning sun was slanting across the countryside and where it hit the straw bales it cast long shadows. The scenery could have won a dozen photographic competitions, but I just enjoyed the...
View ArticleIain Duncan Smith warned that welfare reform is ‘unworkable’
Iain Duncan Smith has been warned by social security advisers that part of his flagship welfare reform is “unworkable and unfair”.The social security advisory committee has strongly criticised plans to...
View ArticleGreenhouses gases must be cut in 10 years to save coral
Most of the world’s coral could be wiped out if greenhouse gas emissions are not cut over the next ten years, scientists have warned.Global warming that exceeds a modest 2C above pre-industrial levels...
View ArticleJohn Major: We are through the worst of the economic storm
Britain is through the worst of the economic storm, Sir John Major said yesterday.The Conservative former prime minister, below, said data showed the recovery had begun, with employment and the stock...
View Article£100k prize fund for green transport ideas
PIONEERS of green transport are being invited to bid for a pot of money totalling £100,000 to turn their ideas into reality. The Green Transport Prize, supported by SEStran, is being launched as a...
View ArticleAlasdair Gray’s striking wall design gets first showing at Glasgow underground
RENOWNED author and artist Alasdair Gray has unveiled his latest work – a 12-metre wall at a refurbished Glasgow subway station.The piece, which has no formal title, got a private viewing last night...
View ArticleOptometrists find one in ten fail to have eye tests
Optometrists are calling on people to take better care of their eyes after research found almost one in ten people has not had an eye test in the last decade.The College of Optometrists said that 9 per...
View ArticleAnalysis: Taleban are not becoming more sophisticated, they are just getting...
IT WOULD be easy to think that the recent attacks on Nato’s base at Camp Bastion, which killed two US marines and apparently was aimed at Prince Harry, is evidence that the Taleban is becoming...
View ArticleImages of Scotland: North Berwick, East Lothian
Sylvia Beaumont took this photograph of basset hounds Lottie and Lucie sheltering beside a bale of straw during a walk in a wheat field, near North Berwick, East...
View ArticleThe Scotsman cartoon 17/09/12
Our cartoonist looks at the scandal surrounding the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.Illustration Iain Green
View ArticleTom Lappin surveys the best finds at Edinburgh’s Doors Open Days 2012
TIME to let a little light in. The capital’s critics (and we’re looking west here, aren’t we?) have often accused Edinburgh of conducting its business behind closed doors. It can seem that way,...
View ArticleMorning briefing: Chris Hoy hails Freedom of city as biggest honour | Former...
SIR CHRIS Hoy described being awarded the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh as the biggest honour of his life.The greatest British Olympian of all time joined the exclusive club – which counts Nelson...
View ArticleScottish Business Briefing - Monday 17 September 2012
WELCOME to scotsman.com’s Scottish Business Briefing. Every morning we bring you a comprehensive round-up of all news affecting business in Scotland today.BANKINGString of new contract wins helps PwC...
View ArticleTrapoil shares hit as Centrica walks away from Inverewe
Shares in Trapoil, the North Sea oil and gas explorer, fell almost 8 per cent in early trading today after the firm said Centrica had decided not to drill an appraisal well on the Inverewe...
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