Opinion

Darling and Douglas-Hamilton represented the best of British politics Christine Jardine

Cary Elwes and Brooke Shields in tartan tinselfest A Castle For Christmas (Picture: Mark Mainz/Netflix © 2021)

Passions: Christmas TV movies are the gift that keeps on giving

Snow in Glasgow at the weekend. There are fears that if Britain has a really hard winter we will will struggle to provide power

Scotsman Letters: Time for Britain to burst free from net zero trap

Val Pitt is a Partner, Horwich Farrelly

Incredible tales from the Scottish courts - Val Pitt

Vicky Crichton is Director of Public Policy, Scottish Legal Complaints Commission

No complaints for most after mediation is tried - Vicky Crichton

Minister for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care Michael Matheson arrives ahead of First Minster's Questions (FMQ's) at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh.

How to save a reputation - Kirsteen MacDonald

Robin Dunlop is an Associate, Thorntons

The best way to build bridges with rail giant

Sturgeon and Yousaf should fund 'loss and damage' they caused back home Brian Monteith

Columnists

Clare Dunne, Charlie Cox, Ciarán Hinds and Aidan Gillen in Kin. Picture: BBC/Headline Pictures

Passions: Why Irish crime drama Kin is my latest box set binge

Concern is growing about the failure of the international COP climate change summits to stop the rise of greenhouse gas emissions (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

COP28 must end three decades of failure to tackle carbon emissions

National Grief Awareness Week: Christmas is the hardest time Gaby Soutar

COP28 a bloated sham that risks condemning future generations Bill McGuire

Local people’s response to Lockerbie bombing moved me to tears Stephen Jardine

Alistair Darling's political life provided honourable lessons for all Brian Wilson

Michael Matheson far from the right man for NHS in Scotland Euan McColm

Letters

Do Humza Yousaf and colleagues at the Scottish Parliament represent value for the nation? (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers Letters: Essential services suffering because Scotland has too much gove...

Alistair Darling hugs wife Maggie outside number 11 Downing Street on 24 March 2010 before presenting his last Budget as Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer (Picture: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Alistair Darling was a great servant of British nation

Ash Regan, formerly with the SNP, now sits as an Alba MSP (Picture: Getty)

Readers' Letters: Alba's referendum referendum is just pie in the sky

Scottish Greens minister Patrick Harvie is the face of the Scottish Government's campaign to help the country meet net zero targets (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Readers' Letters: Let public have a say in how we heat our homes

In 2021 Nicola Sturgeon vowed to abolish all NHS dentistry charges if the SNP was re-elected; this month the Scottish Government halved the number of check-ups to which patients are entitled, while hiking treatment costs (Picture: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: NHS Scotland dental check-up cuts are a pain in the wallet

Newspaper reports claim Patrick Harvie's plan to force all Scottish homes to have heat pumps by 2025 has been scrapped by the SNP Government, though the Green MSP told Scotland on Sunday the original proposals have been misrepresented (Picture: Fraser Bremner - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: If Harvie's heat pump plan is dead, Greens should follow

Grangemouth petrochemical refinery on the Firth of Forth is the only operating crude oil refinery in Scotland

Scotsman Letters: Labour planning to maintain our only oil refinery after 2025?

More Scotsman opinion

Beautiful places, such as the Isle of Skye are among Scotland's greatest assets. Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto

Scotland short-changing environment and undermining one of our greatest assets

Controlling short-term lets and growing tourism economy is a balancing act Scotsman comment

Mum's the Word. Pic: Adobe

Janet Christie's Mum's the Word - Christmas comes early

Kate Forbes could be SNP leader sooner than you might think Susan Dalgety

Artist and playwright John Byrne talks to the press to preview the Curtain Up: 40 Years Of Scottish Theatre exhibition at the National Library of Scotland in 2009 (Picture: John Cheskin/PA)

John Byrne was a cultural icon who appeared effortlessly stylish

Matheson scandal shows MSPs making life harder for SNP in Westminster Alexander Brown

Smart meter complaints are the second biggest area of complaint after billing disputes (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

The main energy complaints... and how to beat them - Martyn James

Nick Freer
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Is it time to be more wary of Artificial Intelligence? - Nick Freer

World Aids Day is marked on December 1 (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

HIV is now a manageable condition like diabetes, yet stigma and ignorance remain

Matheson's iPad expenses bill is not the only reason why he should be ashamed Jackie Baillie

Joaquin Phoenix stars as Napoleon in the new Ridley Scott film (Picture: Sony Pictures)

How Scots played a key role in the downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte

The evidence that Sunak is a terrible Prime Minister is starting to snowball Joyce McMillan

Alistair Darling, the epitome of a democrat, helped save economy and Union Scotsman comment