The Duchess of Sussex has spoken out about her “absolute devastation” at the racial divisions in the US and the death of George Floyd, telling girls graduating at her old high school: “I’m so sorry...

It was Gwyneth Paltrow who brought the world “conscious uncoupling”. Now there is another actress who is determined not to be outdone when it comes to dreaming up new ways of describing one’s...

Have you ever wondered what Jamie Fraser does when he is not breaking hearts in the 18th century? Here the Outlander actor, Sam Heughan, and his on-screen uncle

Nothing has done more for Scotland of late than Outlander — not even Nicola Sturgeon’s jewel-coloured suits. The raunchy historical TV series — now on its s

JK Rowling has characterised a Scottish policy in which police can record a rape as being committed by a woman if the attacker “identifies as a female” as Orwel

Scotland’s national clinical director has admitted that closing nightclubs and cancelling football fixtures has made little difference to Scotland’s coronavirus

Girls are refusing to use gender-neutral toilets at Scottish secondary schools amid reports male pupils have been seen “waving sanitary products like flags” and urinating in sanitary bins.A council...

Officials in Brussels have contradicted Nicola Sturgeon and reiterated the EU’s policy which insists new member states must “legally commit” to join the euro si

Holyrood officials have been warned they face legal action after women were removed from a debate on gender reforms for wearing scarves associated with the suffragette movement.Witnesses at a...

The SNP wants to work with Sinn Fein, Scotland’s deputy first minister said, as the Republican party was poised to be the largest in Northern Ireland.John Swin

Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of recycling old policies with “shameful” election pledges that mask the SNP’s failure to deliver in government.In a key campai

Steven Gerrard can have few illusions about the size of the task — it is a herculean one — facing him at Rangers. This much was clear from Gerrard’s astonishing, stinging comments following his...

A songwriting genius, a rock critic and a journalist who unveiled his family’s involvement in slavery are among the headliners as the Aye Write book festival in

JK Rowling has accused Nicola Sturgeon of prioritising the views of lobby groups over the safety of women and girls by pushing through gender reforms in the fa

Nicola Sturgeon’s plan to force a second independence referendum through the courts has been exposed as a sham, critics have claimed, after her most senior le

Sir Keir Starmer is more popular than Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland, according to a new poll that shows support for Labour significantly increasing north of the b

Tribunal hears that support worker, who has since joined group funded by JK Rowling, was investigated for ‘transphobia’

Payment could be made ‘within four months’ to victims of sexual offences at feeder youth club

Nicola Sturgeon’s officials helped a transgender charity accused of harming children gain a foothold in Scotland to lobby for gender recognition reform and the

Police have apologised to women left “in tears” after being forced to walk through a “pitch-black” park because of Cop26 road closures. Diversions were in place last night around Glasgow’s west end...

I cried. Now, I admit I cry easily. I tear up when friends tell me they are going to have a baby. I welled up when I saw Ringo Starr join Paul McCartney on stage.But this time it was different. When...

Russell Findlay, the Scottish Conservative justice spokesman, accuses club of compounding the pain of victims with protracted legal battle

Support for independence has risen again and accelerated up the priority list for Scottish voters, according to a new poll.The gap between “yes” and “no” vote

Nicola Sturgeon has promised that an abortion conference being held in Edinburgh today will “reaffirm women’s autonomy and right to choose” as she comes under

Being named lawyer of the year is one of the top awards that a member of the Scottish legal sector can receive.The title is greatly sought-after and has gone to some high-profile names over the...

Jim McColl has called on the Scottish government to lift a confidentiality order on a former executive at his shipyard after it emerged Audit Scotland was unabl

A multimillion-pound lawsuit against Celtic FC by survivors of sexual abuse has taken a significant step forward.About 25 victims of molestation at Celtic Boys Club, its feeder club, have raised a...

Facebook has shut down the accounts of fake Scottish independence supporters that it says were run by Iran.In its latest operation against “co-ordinated inauth

Glasgow is bracing itself for the largest protests seen in Scotland since demonstrations against the Iraq war in 2003, reports Marc Horne

JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGESThe Queen opens the Queensferry Crossing with Nicola Sturgeon in 2017. The first minister is not an ardent monarchistIn May 1977 Que

Lawyers have cleared SNP ministers to begin paving the way for a second independence referendum, The Times understands.The Scottish government will be forced to

The police investigation into the SNP’s finances has been expanded to look at allegations of “misuse of funds” and “potential embezzlement”, Scotland’s chief constable has confirmed.Sir Iain Living...

Scotland is the most unhappy country in the UK, according to the latest official wellbeing statistics.In all four nations happiness decreased between April 202

The SNP MP behind a revised plan to revoke Article 50 if a no-deal scenario seems inevitable has said that she has been approached by “many” Labour MPs who want to back it.Joanna Cherry, QC, said...

The actor Alan Cumming has hit out at the “insidious and subliminal racism” faced by Scots who work in London, drawing a sharp distinction between the warm reception he received in America with his...

Unionist parties are on the verge of a return to power at Holyrood as the SNP begins a similar slide towards apathy and infighting that smashed the nationalist movement in Quebec, an international...

The term “mother” was removed from Scottish government maternity policies after they were lobbied by a leading LGBT+ charity, it has emerged.Stonewall urged ministers to remove gendered terms from...

A German grandmother who came to Britain in the final year of the Second World War says that being forced to “register” before Brexit feels like “what the Third Reich did with the Jews”.Karin...

Hospital managers have been warned they could be guilty of discrimination if they put transwomen in single rooms to avoid upsetting patients in female-only ward

More than half of Nicola Sturgeon’s cabinet have downloaded an encrypted messaging service in which conversations can be made to disappear.At least five senior

A leading adviser to Nicola Sturgeon has blamed “the English government” for the decision to postpone lockdown which was agreed by all four nations of the UK.Devi Sridhar, a member of the first...

Scottish government officials tried to prevent Alex Salmond from releasing court papers showing that the lord advocate ordered a search of Scotland’s most senior civil servant’s office in a hunt for...

A transgender woman has denied raping two women with her penis as she went on trial at the High Court in Glasgow.Isla Bryson, formerly known as Adam Graham, fa

Ministers have been accused of a “stitch-up” after it emerged that an international review of Scotland’s schools that will only be published after the Holyrood

Patients who raise concerns about trans women being put on female-only hospital wards are comparable with racists and may have to be “removed”, NHS guidance s

Support for the Conservatives has plummeted in the wake of the chaotic mini-budget, with the party set to return to “minnow” status in Scotland after the next

A schism has erupted in environmental politics after the Scottish Greens voted to cut ties with the UK party over claims of “trans abuse”.Members overwhelmingly

Nicola Sturgeon has doubled down on her assertion that she “detests” Conservatives after making comments that political opponents warned she risked inciting vio

The total cost to the taxpayer from the failed police investigation into the takeover of Rangers FC is set to reach more than £100 million.The botched fraud probe into the collapse and sale of the...

Nicola Sturgeon has been warned that spending more than £1.5 million a year of public money using civil servants to build her case for independence could be illegal after her Supreme Court defeat.

Sir Tom Hunter has warned Scotland should not be seeking independence just “because we don’t like who is in Westminster” as he launched a scheme to help boost the nation’s economy.The businessman was...

Nicola Sturgeon is set to relaunch her campaign for a second independence referendum next month.The SNP’s party conference includes a series of proposals for another vote and policies for a separate...

A lawyer representing the families of people who died in care homes has demanded a separate Scottish public inquiry into what he called the “state killing” of thousands of elderly residents.Peter...

Sir Andy Murray said he wished his two young daughters had been old enough to see him receive his knighthood from the Prince of Wales.The Scottish tennis star received his knighthood at Buckingham...

Celtic are poised to make multimillion-pound damages payments after indicating they want to settle legal claims over systematic child abuse at their feeder club

The SNP’s president has been condemned after comparing the invasion of Ukraine to the UK government’s refusal to agree to a second independence referendum.Mike

SNP ministers have refused to accept millions of pounds from the UK government to upgrade Scotland’s roads.Whitehall officials are now considering bypassing Hol

Brian Cox’s view that Scots will inevitably back independence because they are fundamentally different from the English has been described as “ill informed, wrong and dangerous”.The actor, who was...

Ex-MSP had been a leading voice in the Better Together campaign in 2014 but was turned off by ‘Little Boris Brexit Britain’

Transparency and security concerns raised over former SNP leader and most of her cabinet using only personal devices

An influential scientist has said Scotland “put the Westminster government to shame” with its Covid response but “let its foot off the pedal” by permitting gath

Joanna Cherry has launched a spectacular attack on Nicola Sturgeon’s leadership of the SNP, accusing the party of “Stalinist revisionism” after she was sacked from the Westminster frontbench.In her...

Have you ever wondered what Jamie Fraser does when he is not breaking hearts in the 18th century? Here the Outlander actor, Sam Heughan, and his on-screen uncle

Rangers FC have dismissed claims that an allegedly fraudulent bid to recruit investors in the club was accidentally leaked by the singer Darius Campbell shortly before his mysterious death.The...

Nicola Sturgeon is facing pressure to announce changes to Covid restrictions in the Scottish parliament rather than in a TV studio so that MSPs can scrutinise her judgment.As Glasgow waits to learn...

The SNP depute leader may have broken the ministerial code by providing “unsatisfactory and evasive” answers over his knowledge of a disastrous ferry contract, MSPs have warned.

SNP members are increasingly nervous about a deal to govern with the Greens after Andy Wightman, the former MSP, said there was a “censorious, bullying and intimidatory culture” among the would-be...

Students at one of Scotland’s ancient universities have called for the Duchess of Rothesay to be removed as its ceremonial head.Camilla became chancellor of th

A leading Scottish academic has called for Britain’s exit from the European Union to be halted in an uncompromising attack on the “xenophobia and economic illiteracy” of the hard Brexiteers.Professor...

Civil servants contacted UN relief agency to offer medical equipment to casualties of Israel-Hamas war

Nicola Sturgeon claims she did not know discharged hospital patients with no coronavirus symptoms could infect care home residents despite advice to the contrary from government scientists as far...

Nicola Sturgeon’s husband loaned more than £100,000 to the SNP to “assist with cash flow after the Holyrood election” but failed to declare it for more than a

A second independence referendum must be refused even if the SNP secures a majority of votes at the next general election, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats has claimed.Nicola Sturgeon has...

Former finance minister hints she wants to try again for leadership of SNP

Scurvy is generally known as the disease of sailors, but it appears that fruit-dodging young pop stars are far from immune to the disease.James Blunt has revealed that he developed symptoms of scurvy...

The SNP’s transport minister has been mocked after blaming Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine for the Scottish government abandoning its own deadline to dual what has been dubbed the country’s most...

Labour will block an independence referendum even if the SNP wins more than 50 per cent of the popular vote at the next general election, Sir Keir Starmer has pledged.Nicola Sturgeon has said that...