Politics

As part of our celebrations to mark this newspaper’s bicentenary we want to get 200 more people to contribute regularly to the pages of The Scotsman.

The Scotsman has led the way, using the latest techniques in production and distribution – and even at its birth in 1817 pushed the boundaries when it openly challenged the Establishment by championing free speech

As we mark the beginning of The Scotsman 200 years ago today, Ian Stewart reflects on the past and looks to the future

Around 372,000 Scottish taxpayers will have to wait until the Scottish Government delivers its budget on 15 December for confirmation of how much worse off they will be in 2017-18 compared to people with the same earnings in the rest of the UK.

President Barack Obama has damped down any speculation that First Lady Michelle Obama may one day run for office herself.

The Foreign Office came in for some stick on Twitter last night after tweeting about the new Queensferry Crossing... with an accompanying image of the Forth Bridge. The responses were typically tongue in cheek...

An independent Scotland could provide a financial boost for lawyers who could grab some of the work that currently goes to London, according to a leading QC.

Refugee children should be guaranteed education as well as food and shelter, Gordon Brown will say.

Nicola Sturgeon has used her St Andrew’s Day message to encourage people to ‘share for St Andrew’.

THE Capital’s new 20mph speed limit will be rolled out to a massive swathe of the city in the new year, despite a lack of direct evidence on how the first phase has worked.

Scottish Nationalists have taken a council seat from independents in the latest local by-election north of the border.

Theresa May has said Scotland has a “special place” in the Union as the devolution of new tax powers to Holyrood took another step forward.

The First Minister must focus on what’s best for the country, instead of what’s good for the SNP says Ruth Davidson

Drawing up a coherent assessment of the health – and changing nature – of Scotland’s diverse rural sector with the aim of keeping politicians, policy makers and decision formers up to speed might always have been viewed as a tough job.

Police Scotland has received allegations of historical child abuse in football.

Support for Scottish independence has plummeted in the past two years - according to a national survey.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will not force his MPs to block an SNP attempt to trigger a parliamentary investigation into whether Tony Blair misled the Commons in the run-up to the Iraq war.

The first question asked of senior officers at the most recent public meeting of the Scottish Police Authority was whether they had any way of monitoring the number of those unfollowing the force on Twitter.

The careless handling of official notes shows a cavalier attitude to confidential documents, writes Martyn McLaughlin