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Yousaf must answer worrying questions about children’s gender treatment
Committee of MSPs asks First Minister to clarify the Scottish Government’s position
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Janet Christie catching up with The Scotsman's Rural Affairs Correspondent Katherine Hay, who is walking around Scotland, in Eyemouth, Berwickshire. Pic: K Hay.

Janet Christie: My Week – 1990s retro style is more fashion than function

Yousaf's growing anger amid trans row a sign he's buckling under the pressure Susan Dalgety

Taylor Swift has revealed she's a fan of The Blue Nile (Picture: Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)

The Blue Nile should brace for a flood of 'Swifties'

Would letting councils charge drivers for using roads help meet climate targets? (Picture: Brendan Smialowski/ AFP via Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Is latest road plan viable for Scotland?

Latest news

Scottish Green co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater arrive at Bute House in Edinburgh. Picture: Lesley Martin/PA Wire

Scottish Greens to hold vote on future of SNP powersharing agreement at Holyrood

Analysis Why are loyalist marches facing new resistance?

New laws on smoking will prevent anyone born on or before 2009 being sold cigarettes

​Smoking ban could see return of under-the-counter single fags - Vladimir McTavi...

Charles Burnett was the man behind the founding of Scotland's own heraldry society

Scotsman Obituaries: Charles Burnett, respected Scots heraldist

Gas Safe Register research revealed one in ten people have had insurance or warranty claims rejected after failing to get their boiler serviced annually (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Get your boiler checked to avoid a financial disaster - Martyn James

Sandy Bornwing of Ka Pao Pic: Naomi Vance Photography

Ka Pao head chef shares recipes

Oleg Dmitriev of Sunflower Scotland, drove from Edinburgh to eastern Ukraine to donate exercise machinery to a new rehabilitation centre from military veterans.

The Scottish charity helping war veterans in Ukrainian town with 1,000 amputees

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After SNP makes yet another fine Green mess, we need a realistic approach Brian Wilson

Ferries fiasco: Glen Sannox completion delayed another two months to July

Oleg Dmitriev of Sunflower Scotland, drove from Edinburgh to eastern Ukraine to donate exercise machinery to a new rehabilitation centre from military veterans.

The Scottish charity helping war veterans in Ukrainian town with 1,000 amputees

Taylor Swift has named-checked Scottish band The Blue Nile on her latest album. Picture: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images

The Blue Nile: The Scottish band name-checked by Taylor Swift

Transport

Edinburgh Airport

Ministers planning new Scottish air travel tax to cut emissions

Congestion charging operates in Central London. Picture: PA archive

SNP-Greens draw up plans to help councils charge road users after climate U-turn

A majority stake in Edinburgh Airport has been sold

Edinburgh Airport sale: Majority stake sold to VINCI in £1.27bn deal

Cars drive in a flooded street following heavy rains in Dubai. Picture: Guiseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images

Dubai floods: Delayed flights continue as flooding subsides

Future Scotland

Mohammed with Rebecca Moore, a former Skyscanner and TravelNest senior executive who joined the healthcare business as chief operating officer in 2022. Picture: contributed.

Interview: Addy Mohammed, co-founder of Simple Online Healthcare
Tech-harnessing firm aims to deliver “the level of care that we would be happy for our own family to receive”.

'This additional funding will support our goal to push on into an operational launch phase and scale our business when the time comes,' says Orbex. Picture: contributed.

One giant leap for Scotland's space sector as firm secures SNIB funding boost

Ad Feature Ignore AI at your peril, industry experts tells business leaders

Oban-based marine scientist Jessica Giannotti, who runs the local Crùbag textile studio, set up SeaDyes on the back of a research project she worked on with the Scottish Association for Marine Science which involved extracting pigments from seaweed

Eco dyes made from seaweed – available in every colour but always green

An agreement by Hyundai to pursue opportunities for floating offshore wind power projects has been hailed as a "vote of confidence in Scotland" Photo: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Floating wind farm manufacturing base set for Scotland in HD Hyundai deal

Crime

Humza Yousaf speaks during First Minster's Questions at the Scottish Parliament. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Humza Yousaf: Tory bid to scrap Hate Crime Act was ‘reckless and unforgivable’

MSPs must not miss this chance to repeal the Hate Crime Act Murdo Fraser

Time to enshrine a right to a healthy environment in Scots law Richard Dixon

Police at the scene in the Pitilie area on the outskirts of Aberfeldy, Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

MP seeks clarity from police chief two months after murder on rural path

Motorists stop and wave as police cars pursue a white Ford Bronco, driven by Al Cowlings, carrying fugitive murder suspect OJ Simpson, during a 90-minute, slow-speed car chase in Los Angeles in 1994 (Picture: Jean-Marc Giboux/Liaison/Getty Images)

The night Oprah described OJ Simpson chase over the phone has stuck with me

Second wave of super-strong heroin is set to hit Scotland Tom Wood

Politics

'Human hand grenade' Liz Truss is a quasi-anarchist – and a warning to us all

A decent liberal society cannot be built on the reckless, right-wing, 'get rich quick' politics o...

How India's politicians are using AI to reach remote voters
Artificial intelligence will have a crucial role to play in India’s election...
St Andrew's House in Edinburgh. Picture: PA

Scottish Government buildings largely vacant amid 'carelessness' claims

The Scottish Government has been accused of ‘carelessness with public money’, with a number of its key buildings mostly empty
Why I've changed my mind about limits on car trafficStephen Jardine
Analysis Will Peter Murrell bombshell add to Humza Yousaf’s woes?

The SNP's problems ‘go way beyond the financial allegations’, experts say

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Fresh blow as axe falls on £7m fund to upskill Scottish workers
SNP warned of ‘long-term implications’ for universities and economy...

Weather

Passengers wait for their flights at the Dubai International Airport in Dubai on Wednesday. Dubai's major international airport diverted and cancelled scores of incoming flights as heavy rains lashed the United Arab Emirates, causing widespread flooding around the desert country

Scottish flights delayed indefinitely as Dubai struggles to cope with flooding

An RNLI lifeboat. Image: Steve Parsons/PA Wire

Young paddleboarders rescued as Storm Kathleen causes widespread disruption

Coronavirus

A Scottish doctor who now practises medicine in Australia says the government cannot blame the Covid pandemic for the crisis. Image: Peter Byrne/Press Association.

Scottish doctor who left the NHS says governments cannot blame crisis on Covid

Sturgeon's politicking and Johnson's weakness may have damaged Covid response Paul Wilson

Exclusive Michael Matheson asks for extension as iPad report publication looms

Former first minister Alex Salmond. Picture: PA

Alex Salmond claims WhatsApp message deletion was not policy while he was FM

Opinion

A million hens are thought to be crammed into cages in Scotland. This must end

Groundbreaking plans by the Scottish Government would end the ‘cage age’ of farming for good

Philip LymberyPhilip Lymbery
If Labour wins the next general election, Keir Starmer will have a task on his hands to persuade Scots not to support independence (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Here's what Labour needs to do if it wants to save the Union

The Tortured Poets Department has now been released.

Funny, unexpectedly cutting - Taylor Swift gets to heart of things Lauren Jack

How former chorus girl who foresaw war in 1931 helped win the Battle of BritainSusan Morrison
Susan Morrison

People

Grab your umbrella, stick in the earbuds and suddenly you can stand the rain (Picture: Adobe)

Passions: Songs for a rainy day - choose a tune to lighten the mood
Choose a tune to lighten the mood

UTSADD soft toy for dogs £2

Ikea launches pet range for lucky cats and dogs

Bostock tart Pic: Milly Kenny-Ryder

Britain's Best Bakeries: author tells us about Scotland's finest pastries

Martin Bell's motto, 'Plant trees you’ll never see', spoke to his commitment to passing on knowledge

Scotsman Obituaries: Martin Bell, Scotch Whisky Association executive

Explainer Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department is surprise double album

Obituaries

A keen fisherman, Ian Calcott was a pioneer of 'catch and release'

Scotsman Obituaries: Ian Calcott, journalist, author and salmon fisherman

Joan Hills mixed with the likes of Francis Bacon and Yoko Ono

Scotsman Obituaries: Joan Hills, Scot at forefront of underground art scene

Peter Higgs visiting the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, where the existence of the Higg's boson particl was confirmed (Picture: CERN Geneva/PA Wire)

Obituaries: Peter Higgs, physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson particle

George was ordained as a Church of Scotland Minister in 1948

Obituaries: George Wilkie, founding member of the Iona Community

Environment

SNP's scrapping of climate target is a failure as pathetic as their excuses
The Scottish Government has always talked a good game on climate change but its inability to make progress on its 2030 target is the latest in a long line of failings
Scotsman comment

Scottish Green co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater arrive at Bute House in Edinburgh. Picture: Lesley Martin/PA Wire

Green councillor calls on party to ‘consider withdrawing’ from SNP deal

Humza Yousaf and Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Just Transition, Mairi McAllan, during a recent visit to the Port of Aberdeen (Picture: Michal Wachucik/PA)

SNP's decision to shift goalposts on climate is sign of their collective failure

San t-Suain, tha e mì-laghail GUN stobha a bhith agad an cois phumpaichean-teasa (Dealbh: Ashley Cooper/Getty Images)

Tha an casg air stòbhaichean na eisimpleir a-rithist air droch phoileasaidh

UK News

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The Scotsman was nominated in the Front Page of the Year category

Host of nominations for The Scotsman in annual Scottish Press Awards

As a former teenage smoker, I say Sunak is right to help us kick the habit Laura Waddell

We’ve forgotten the 'one cause behind all forms of social misery' Kate Copstick

As Liz Truss promotes her new book, Ten Years to Save the West, she has endorsed Donald Trump (Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images)

Truss's book, Ten Years to Save the West, should be filed in the fiction section

World

Refugees who have fled from the war in Sudan line up during a cash assistance programme at a transit centre for refugees in South Sudan earlier this year.

How Sudan's civil war is fuelling a refugee crisis in neighbouring South Sudan

A handout image grab made available by the Iranian state TV, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), shows what the TV said was a live picture of the city of Isfahan following reports of explosions heard in the province in central Iran. Picture: Iranian State TV (IRIB)/AFP via Getty Images

US Israel missile strike claims as Iran fires air defence

Bluey, Bingo, Bandit and Chilli. They might be cartoon dogs, but their portrayal of family life is top-notch. Picture: Ludo Studio

Why Australian cartoon Bluey is an absolute work of art

The Jamaican Giant Galliwasp (Celestus occiduus) is to be returned to its native country. Picture: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow.

Giant 170-year-old lizard to be returned to Jamaica by Scottish university

Firefighters work on a building partially destroyed after a Russian bombardment in Chernihiv, Ukraine. Picture: AP Photo/Francisco Seco

'If Ukraine loses, there will be a Third World War', warns prime minister

People fill jerry cans with water at a Red Cross water distribution in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. More than 20 million Ethiopians are in need of food aid, according to estimates from the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).

Ethiopia: Funding target not reached as charities warn of impending famine

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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued a new “do not travel” warning for parts of a tourist destination due to “criminal activity”. (Photo: Getty Images)

'Do not travel' warning for tourist destination

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Booky Pod: Meet crime writer Will Carver

Sir Richard Branson spotted on a double decker bus-turned ship

Will Young has a big 2024 planned (Photo: Jamie Noise 2024)

Will Young on new album and missing his dogs as he announces huge tour

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