Independent Scotland would be welcomed back into EU, Labour grandee says
AN independent Scotland would be welcomed back into the European Union within just two to three years, a Scottish Labour grandee has insisted....
First Scottish female film director to be honoured at National Film Theatre
SHE’S been hailed as a visionary and pioneer of women’s filmmaking, though she’s all but unknown in her native Scotland. . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16980843.first-scottish-female-film-director-to-be-honoured-at-national-film-theatre/
Kirsty Strickland: Cause of sexual violence is not headphones or walking alone. It’s violent men
The police came under fire this week after urging women not to use mobile phones or headphones while walking alone, after a spate...
Up close with Scotland’s magic and mysterious hares
IN centuries past, the prospect of encountering a hare on this lonely mountain path would have filled travellers with dread. Feared as a...
Airbrushed out of history…now is the time to tell the story of Scotland’s women
When Winnie Ewing entered Westminster in 1967, her experience as one of a mere handful of women MPs was in some ways glorious,...
Kevin McKenna: Those Scottish firms and families which benefitted from slavery must make amends
A CURIOUS dissonance is evident in the reaction of some conservatives to ideas of reparative justice. This concept was at the heart of...
Noses are back…artist moves away from galleries to launch own website
He is perhaps best known for hiring and painting out of a police cell in Calton, Glasgow, for years – cutting himself off...
Benefits freeze to cost families £200
The continuing benefits freeze is likely to leave low-income households more than £200 worse off next year, according to analysis by a think-tank. ....
Scottish Highlands ‘face depopulation and damage if farming subsidies are axed’
The Scottish Highlands risk “calamitous" environmental damage and mass depopulation after Brexit, a senior EU official has warned. . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16980459.scottish-highlands-face-depopulation-and-damage-if-farming-subsidies-are-axed/
Call to halt ‘disastrous’ Universal Credit roll-out as millions face losing £50 a week
THERESA May has been called on to halt the “disastrous” roll-out of her Government’s flagship Universal Credit policy after a new report claimed...
