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Keir Starmer needs to ensure the disability benefits system is fair (Picture: Leon Neal)

Labour risks repeat of winter fuel row over disability benefit cuts Scotsman comment

Glasgow University's RoboGuide, a talking, self-navigating robotic guide dog, meets a Labrador at the RNIB conference on Inclusive Design for Sustainability at Glasgow Science Centre

Why 2025 is the most exciting time in history for blind people Robin Spinks

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is under pressure to boost defence spending and get the economy growing (Picture: Dan Kitwood)

SNP and Reform will benefit if Labour can't find ways to boost economy Scotsman comment

David Lloyd George, Prime Minister during the First World War, knew the value of Orkney farmers like this one, pictured in 1915 (Picture: Hulton Archive)

How we can end scandalously low prices paid to farmers Alistair Carmichael

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Donald Trump is said to agree with the last person he spoke to, which should give Keir Starmer at least a window of opportunity to influence him (Picture: Ting Shen)

Sickening Gaza video speaks volumes as Starmer preps for Trump meeting Scotsman comment

If Vladimir Putin is not stopped in Ukraine, his ambitions will not end there (Picture: Valery Sharifulin)

Why Corbyn and Farage are 'useful idiots' for Putin Joani Reid

King Charles should have the same freedom of religion as anyone else (Picture: Hannah McKay)

Free King Charles! Why does the monarch have to be a Presbyterian? The Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth

Agreeing with Nigel Farage's views on immigration is not the way to defeat him (Picture: Christopher Furlong)

Labour's hardline stance on immigration is playing into Farage's hands Alistair Carmichael

Nigel Farage's Reform UK party lost out because of the first-past-the-post system in July's general election, but could start to benefit from it if their vote share rises (Picture: Carl Court)

Why UK's voting system could benefit Nigel Farage's Reform UK Willie Sullivan

Culturally, the UK seems to have returned to the late 1960s when war-era parents looked at the hippy movement and similarly concluded that the world was going to hell (Picture: Robert Blomfield Photography)

Why it's wrong to paint Generation Z as unpatriotic snowflakes Eddie Barnes

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Piping marathon for 80 days in lead up to 80th anniversary of VE Day

Farmers protested in Whitehall on Monday against changes to inheritance tax rules for farmers (Picture: Henry Nicholls)

Why Labour rebels could yet force U-turn on family farm tax Alistair Carmichael

Amid much pessimism about UK economic growth, will Rachel Reeves double down on her counterproductive policies? (Picture: Jonathan Brady/pool)

Why liberating UK economy from remaining EU rules is Reeves' only hope Brian Monteith

When the UK has famous people like Dua Lipa helping to promote its image abroad, it doesn't need the British Council (Picture: Justin Tallis)

Why it's time to abolish colonial throwback British Council Stephen Jardine

There has been talk in government about building a third runway at Heathrow Airport for decades (Picture: Jack Taylor)

The UK needs to get as good as France at building major infrastructure Stephen Gethins

Learning about the natural world will help children take better care of themselves, the environment and animals like chickens (Picture: Matt Cardy)

Why we need to know more about reality of how food is produced Philip Lymbery

If every democracy adopts a Donald Trump-style 'my country first' approach, international conflict of some kind is almost inevitable (Picture: Chip Somodevilla)

7 ways to launch liberal fightback as Trump reveals perils of populism Ian Johnston

Keir Starmer is so desperate for a 'reset' with the EU that he gives the impression of being willing to concede to any EU demand (Picture: Benjamin Cremel/WPA pool)

Why Keir Starmer is getting ready to sell out Britain to the EU Brian Monteith

The repeated rapes of Gisèle Pelicot would not have happened without the website that enabled her husband to find dozens of men to rape her (Picture: Christophe Simon)

Southport murders and Pelicot rape case have a terrifying connection Tom Wood

Norway sees no problem with issuing new oil and gas licences and neither should the UK (Picture: Ian Forsyth)

Why Rachel Reeves needs North Sea oil and gas in her drive for growth Brian Wilson

Chancellor Rachel Reeves gives a speech on economic growth at Siemens Healthineers, in Eynsham, Oxford

Keir will have to choose between 'growth' Rachel and 'net zero' Ed Paul Wilson

Atlas, a titan in Greek mythology, was said to hold up the heavens or the sky on his shoulders (Picture: Louisa Gouliamaki)

Atlas Shrugs again: Trump and tech titans restoring cult of individual Martin Roche

Scotland would benefit from its own visa system for migrants, but the independence debate means Westminster is unlikely to agree to the idea (Picture: Oli Scarff)

Scotland needs its own migrant visa system, but probably won't get it Scotsman comment

France managed to cope with the existence of the Royal Navy dreadnought HMS Agincourt during the First World and would have done so again (Picture: Hulton Archive)

Why calling Royal Navy submarine 'HMS Achilles' is not 'woke nonsense' Scotsman comment

If taxes on the wealthy get too high, they have a tendency to leave the country (Picture: Christopher Furlong)

Dear Keir Starmer, here's why a wealth tax will impoverish us all Brian Monteith

Holocaust survivor Susan Pollack: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Do not allow yourself another lesson to learn, says Holocaust survivor

Labour appears to hope that it will be able to make a UK-US trade deal with Donald Trump's administration (Picture: Jim Watson)

Why Starmer must not sell out UK farmers to make Trump trade deal Alistair Carmichael

The coffin of Southport stabbing victim Elsie Dot Stancombe is carried out of St John's Church in Birkdale, following her funeral service in August (Picture: Peter Byrne)

Southport inquiry is about stopping such attacks, not assigning blame Scotsman comment

Donald Trump will loom large over politics in Scotland and the UK (Picture: Chip Somodevilla)

Trump's Age of Unreason and Anti-science is coming soon to Scotland Ian Johnston

Keir and Victoria Starmer on the steps of 10 Downing Street the day after July's general election. How times have changed (Picture: Leon Neal)

Why it's clear Keir Starmer is preparing rerun of Tory austerity Stephen Gethins

On a visit to Ukraine, Keir Starmer said 'we all want this war to end... but right now Putin shows no sign of wanting peace' (Picture: Sergey Shestak)

Trump's shadow looms large over huge Nato training exercise in Romania Scotsman comment

In a speech at University College London this week, Keir Starmer set out his plan to us AI to drive economic growth and improve public services (Picture: Henry Nicholls/WPA pool)

Why Labour faces war with left-leaning writers over threat posed by AI John McLellan

A dead water buffalo is removed from a farm in Hoppegarten near Berlin earlier this month after the country's first reported cases of foot-and-mouth disease since 1988 (Picture: Odd Andersen)

UK's frontline defence against foot-and-mouth disease is a disgrace Alistair Carmichael

Scottish Secretary Ian Murray is a straight-talker (Picture: Christopher Furlong)

Labour needs to convince voters current pain will mean future gain Scotsman comment

Facebook still has billions of monthly active users but it is mired in controversy. Picture: Getty Images

Why the temptation to abandon social media is growing by the day Martyn McLaughlin

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay has warned voting for Reform UK will benefit the SNP (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Scotland must not fall for SNP and Reform UK's competing nationalisms Scotsman comment

Donald Trump inspects an honour guard at Buckingham Palace during his state visit in 2019 (Picture: Mandel Ngan)

Why return of Trump to White House means UK must rejoin European Union Martin Roche

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves need to find ways to give businesses the confidence to invest (Picture: Oli Scarff)

As confidence wanes, Labour must do more to help business Scotsman comment

Keir Starmer could replace Rachel Reeves with Gordon Brown as Chancellor by elevating the former Prime Minister to the Lords (Picture: Leon Neal)

Talk of Gordon Brown as Chancellor shows depths of Labour's troubles Brian Monteith

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch should think again about jumping on Elon Musk's bandwagon (Picture: Justin Tallis)

Tories' flirtation with extremism sows seeds of party's destruction Brian Wilson

Labour has made political mistakes but there is no hiding the need for tough choices about public spending and taxation (Picture: Chris Eades/WPA pool)

Why Labour could be the last hurrah for liberal democracy in UK Ian Johnston

A wild turkey finds itself in a residential area of Shirley on New York's Long Island (Picture: Bruce Bennett)

Here's why we need to think twice about turkey for Christmas dinner Philip Lymbery

This 1957 Jaguar D-type looks cool, but the modern car company is in need of a relaunch (Picture: National Motor Museum/Heritage Images)

Jaguar about to return to fast lane – or crash and burn spectacularly Stephen Jardine

Donald Trump speaks at his revamped Trump Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire in 2016.

Donald Trump’s Scots heritage and business ties to Scotland explained

A local man on Evia island in Greece appeals for help after the water he's using to fight a wildfire near his home in 2021 stops flowing (Picture: Angelos Tzortzinis)

Halfway to Fire Age: How Ice Age reveals our children's bleak future Ian Johnston

Labour is in a hole and Chancellor Rachel Reeves is the one doing most of the digging (Picture: Jonathan Brady)

Why it's time for Keir Starmer to sack his Chancellor Rachel Reeves Brian Monteith

Campaigners against the decision to means-test the winter fuel allowance for pensioners stage a demonstration outside the UK Parliament (Picture: Lucy North)

100,000 elderly pushed into poverty? Try not to get old under Labour Christine Jardine

Keir Starmer is right that the winter fuel allowance should not be paid to all pensioners, but needs to think again about the method of means-testing it (Picture: House of Commons/UK Parliament)

Starmer needs to re-examine his conscience about winter fuel allowance Scotsman comment

Supporters of For Women Scotland and the Scottish Feminist Network take part in a demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament (Picture: Lesley Martin)

How UK's highest court is about to decide what a 'woman' is Susan Dalgety

John Prescott campaigns for Labour ahead of the 2015 general election at an amateur boxing club in Redcar (Picture: Ian Forsyth)

Why John Prescott was important politician – and not just for Labour Scotsman comment

The two lionesses that were rescued from a conflict zone in Ukraine

Lions rescued from war zone arrive at their new home in Scotland

Elon Musk has got better things to do than read Humza Yousaf's private messages on X (formerly Twitter) (Picture: Michael Gonzalez)

Never mind Musk, it’s police reading our tweets that should worry us Murdo Fraser

Fireworks displays can be beautiful, but they also terrify some animals to death (Picture: Lam Yik Fei)

Why fireworks laws must change after death of Roxie the red panda cub Christine Jardine

Paddy McGuinness celebrates reaching Glasgow after his 300-mile journey from Wrexham on a Raleigh Chopper (Picture: John Devlin)

Paddy McGuinness's 300-mile bike ride is an inspiration to the nation Scotsman comment

An interactive 'Muck Map' reveals the areas of Scotland and the rest of the UK that are most at risk of nutrient pollution from manure used on farms

‘Muck Map’ reveals which parts of Scotland have a manure problem Philip Lymbery

Ian Maxwell who has told how he suffered an eyecare emergency that could have cost him the sight in one eye just before the Euros.

SFA chief reveals he needed emergency surgery to save eyesight

Lord Provost Robert Aldridge, First Minister John Swinney and Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament Alison Johnstone, along with other dignitaries, during the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Stone of Remembrance outside the City Chambers in Edinburgh.

In pictures: Poignant Remembrance Sunday events are staged across Scotland

King lays wreath at Cenotaph as nation falls silent in remembrance

Labour politician Jennie Lee, pictured in 1933, went on to play the instrumental role in the creation of the Open University in the 1960s (Picture: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive)

Scot who created Open University can help us respond to Trump's win Joyce McMillan

Chancellor Rachel Reeves poses outside 11 Downing Street with her ministerial red box before delivering her Budget in the House of Commons

£2.8 trillion: Why Labour can't ignore UK's eye-watering national debt Paul Wilson

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

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