5 h. ago Call for Steve Clarke to receive knighthood after leading Scotland to first World Cup finals since 1998

A motion lodged at the Scottish Parliament calls on MSPs to support the Tartan Army boss receiving royal recognition for his efforts.

Politics

11 h. ago How the Scottish Parliament provided a silver lining to massive Cloudflare outage

Online viewers of Scottish Parliament TV found themselves unable to watch the proceedings for some time

Politics

26 h. ago As Mossmorran closes, have politicians learned any lessons at all from Grangemouth?

The closure does Labour and the SNP no favours ahead of next year’s Scottish Parliament election.

Politics

27 h. ago Cloudflare down: Major internet outage hits websites including X, ChatGPT, Spotify and Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament website has also been impacted.

Politics

28 h. ago Chaos online as massive Cloudflare outage cripples half the internet

Cloudflare provides web security, speed, and routing services for millions of sites, so when it goes down, anything that relies on it cannot load, making it the backbone of the internet.

Events

65 h. ago Edinburgh University lecturers walk out again in dispute over savings plan

The University and College Union has warned future action could see a marking and assessment boycott.

Economics

5 d. ago Ayrshire’s High Street heroics applauded in Scottish Parliament

People and projects from the region were among the winners of this year’s Scotland Loves Local Awards.

Politics

5 d. ago Wounded Keir Starmer needs a miracle as Labour infighting inflicts further blow to his credibility

Keir Starmer’s woes are setting Scottish Labour up for a particularly bad result at the Scottish Parliament elections in May

Politics

5 d. ago Rangers legend Graeme Souness' in emotional plea for better ‘butterfly skin’ care

The football legend, who has campaigned for those affected by rare epidermolysis bullosa (EB), met with the health minister and affected families to call for urgent change at the Scottish Parliament.

Transport

6 d. ago Lack of support for recall Bill would be ‘failure of Parliament’, MSPs told

The legislation would create a mechanism for MSPs to lose their seats if they behave unacceptably.

Politics

6 d. ago Sheku Bayoh’s sister vows to continue ‘fight for justice’ after meeting Swinney

Mr Bayoh’s family said that John Swinney had told them the public inquiry into his death was of ‘paramount importance’.

Politics

6 d. ago The Silver Book by Olivia Laing review – a thin line of beauty

The world of 1970s Italian cinema is the glossy backdrop for an elegantly wrought but shallow novel“Ugliness,” noted Pier Paolo Pasolini, “is never completely depressing or repulsive. It contains within it an allegory of hunger and pain, its history is our history, the history of Fascism It is tragic, but immediate, and for this reason, full of life.” For Pasolini, ugliness was its own kind of truth, such that Rome could lay no claim to being the most beautiful city in the world “if it were not, at the same time, the ugliest”. For some, though, that truth risked becoming “unseeable”. The gaze of the touristic voyeur, said Pasolini, skimmed over slums for the poor “filled with illness, violence, crime, and prostitution”, “convinced of the extraneousness and untimeliness of this sub-proletarian, underdeveloped world”.Olivia Laing’s second novel, The Silver Book, is a work preoccupied with beauty. Set in the world of Italian cinema in 1974, the book o...

Politics

7 d. ago SNP announces Alex Kerr as candidate for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse

He will stand in the constituency in the upcoming Scottish Parliament election.

Politics

1 week ago Why the Scottish Parliament voting system should be overhauled to stop parties 'gaming the system'

Stephen Kerr says too many regional list MSPs feel ‘removed’ from their constituents

Politics

1 week ago Why Scottish Parliament voting should be overhauled to stop parties 'gaming the system'

Stephen Kerr says too many regional list MSPs feel ‘removed’ from their constituents

Politics

1 week ago Why the Scottish Parliament keeps making bad law – and how to fix it

Party whips control who is allowed to speak in the Scottish Parliament, which ensures debates are predictable, partisan, and rehearsed

Politics

2 w. ago University of Dundee staff to strike again next week in job cuts row

University and College Union members are calling for compulsory redundancies to be ruled out.

Events

2 w. ago Why toxic 'boys' club' Police Scotland has a big choice to make over gender war today

Will the police allow a peaceful rally at the Scottish Parliament by the Women Won’t Wheesht campaign group to be drowned out by transgender protesters?

Events

2 w. ago Scottish Parliament suspends all voting over Microsoft outage

MSPs were set to debate and vote on hundreds of amendments to legislation on Wednesday evening.

Politics

2 w. ago Scottish Parliament suspends voting over ongoing Microsoft outage

Thousands of issues are being reported with applications owned by Microsoft.

Politics