Dame Tessa Jowell: New Labour minister who became London 2012 political champion
Dame Tessa Jowell will be remembered as one of the main political architects of the hugely successful 2012 London Olympics, which captured the...
Housing benefit reforms causing crisis and debt, minister claims
UK Government welfare policies have led to private renting becoming “completely unaffordable" in some areas of Scotland and driven up rent arrears, according...
RT: A history of conspiracy theories and Ofcom breaches
THE owner of a Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT has breached UK broadcasting codes 15 times in the last six years. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16222175.RT__A_history_of_conspiracy_theories_and_Ofcom_breaches/?ref=rss
Criticism of the press is good, but hatred is dangerous and anti democratic – if the SNP does not speak up the cause of independence will be wounded
LAST week’s front page of the Sunday Herald provoked an outburst of anger on social media. We ran a main story, about political...
Garry Hassan: Independence is about more than an indyref – it is a state of mind
Scotland and the UK find themselves in a peculiar state of hiatus, caught in a moment of uneasy stasis as the ramifications of...
Scottish Information Commissioner: First Minister’s right to block release of ‘sensitive’ government files should be removed
THE First Minister’s powers to block the release of “sensitive” government files could be removed, Scotland’s Freedom of Information (FOI) watchdog has said....
Spy widow Marina Litvinenko: Alex Salmond should give up his show on Russian ‘propaganda’ station RT
THE widow of an ex-Russian spy who was assassinated in London has called on Alex Salmond to give up his television talk show...
Everything you need to know about the royal wedding, including how to avoid it
LOVE them or loathe them, you cannot escape them. So with another royal wedding on the horizon with Prince Harry getting hitched to...
Scottish national investment bank must not be dominated by wealthy elites, campaigners say
A FLAGSHIP Scottish national investment bank must not be dominated by “wealthy elites and city bankers”, campaigners have said. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16222272.Scottish_national_investment_bank_must_not_be_dominated_by_wealthy_elites__campaigners_say/?ref=rss
Glasgow Labour hopeful was branded ‘untruthful’ and ‘evasive’ by tribunal judge
A WOULD-BE Labour candidate was described as “untruthful” and “evasive” by a judge in a tribunal case involving a charity for survivors of...
