Opinion

Cris Peploe, Claudia Cawthorne and Martha Haskins pose with a large-scale version of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 programme cover in the Old Town. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Plenty room for optimism as Fringe reaches a crossroads - Brian Ferguson

Moray Council's image promoting its Drag Queen Story Time event

Readers' Letters: Once upon a time, a drag queen read to children

David Alexander is CEO of DJ Alexander Scotland Ltd

Our £15m home sales milestone shows just how far we've come - David Alexander

Florida governor Ron DeSantis

Could Ron DeSantis be more dangerous than Donald Trump? Henry McLeish

Casual is the new smart at work

Laura Waddell: Has power-dressing at work had its day?

Projects like Berwick Bank Wind Farm are powering a green revolution - Pic: Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm Ltd

Why is Scotland missing out its windfarm bounty?

Oil support vessels in Aberdeen Harbour from onboard a Northlink Ferry

Plans to shut down oil and gas 'akin to economic genocide'

Emma Walker is Regional Director, Scotland for auticon

Businesses must adapt to recruit top talent they seek - Emma Walker

Columnists

Tram line work on the Newhaven extension in 2020 - but it was much less disruptive than the original scheme. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Edinburgh made trams a dirty word but it's time to change that – Alastair Dalton

Willoughby returned to the This Morning sofa this week

Phillip Schofield affair was a sad, pointless distraction from a world in crisis

The full state pension is now just £10,600

Case for significantly raising the state pension is compelling - Euan McColm

Steel recycling is currently a high-carbon activity, using plenty of fossil fuel.

Scotland has a unique opportunity to create a greener steel industry

David Bunton, Chair, Precision Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre www.precisionmedicinescotland.com and CEO, Reprocell Europe

Why Scotland has a golden future in precision medicine - David Bunton

Lochboisdale Pier on South Uist became the scene of protest over the weekend as islanders demonstrated over the loss of a key ferry service throughout June. PIC: Steve Houldsworth/geograph.org

The gulf between islands and Holyrood cannot afford to grow any wider

The national Covid memorial wall in Lambeth, London. As the UK Covid inquiry launches its battle to access mobile phone messages of Boris Johnston, a similar call is made for phone records of Scottish ministers to be made available for the inquiry north of the border.

Let the light in on Covid phone messages of Scotland's leaders - Jackie Baillie

Letters

The failure to complete the dualling of the A9 has one reader worried (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers Letters: What's with relentless assault on rural and remote areas?

Edinburgh councillor Scott Arthur is an advocate of the '20-minute neighbourhood' notion (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Readers' Letters: 20-minute neighbourhood makes no sense in post-pandemic world

Water tap

Readers' Letters: We need more reservoirs against water shortages

Circular Economy minister Lorna Slater insists Westminster is wrecking Scotland's green vision (Picture: Fraser Bremner/Pool/Getty)

Readers' Letters: Government cares about grievances, not recycling

SNP MSP and Education Minister Jenny Gilruth (Picture: Ken Jack/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Verdict is in on Sturgeon's education ambitions

SNP MSP and Minister for Independence Jamie Hepburn

Readers' Letters: Independence Minister wrong about Brown and Vow

Humza Yousaf promised to cut NHS waiting lists dramatically when he was Scottish Health Secretary (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Let more doctors do routine procedures

More Scotsman opinion

Royal Blood's sarcastic response to their Dundee audience made them look like prats, writes Aidan Smith.

Royal Blood felt the wrath just like Shirley Bassey and Keith Richards

UK Labour says it will block new licences for developing oil and gas in the North Sea if it wins the next general election. Image: PA.

We need a softer landing on North Sea drilling not a hard stop - GMB

Lady Lorna Drummond

Beware this odd ruling of the Scottish courts and the floodgates it could open

Rishi Sunak's government needs to co-operate fully with the Covid-19 Inquiry (Picture: Leon Neal/WPA pool /Getty Images)

Sunak's government must be open with Covid inquiry – Christine Jardine

Out-of-town business hubs meet a real need

The ‘tribrid’ working model’s time has come - Nick Watson

Rob Aberdein is Chief Commercial Officer at Progeny

Law firms need to start work on Version 2.0 of their legal business now - Rob A...

Carolyn Morgan is a partner at Harper Macleod

Mediation can dial down the drama in a crisis - Carolyn Morgan

Andy Drane is a partner, Davidson Chalmers Stewart

Good advice is essential for renewables projects - Andy Drane

Tony Lenehan KC is President, Faculty of Advocates Criminal Bar Association

Introduction of juryless rape trials would be an act of follyTony Lenehan

SNP administrations have sought at various stages to centralise public services

Brian Monteith: The centralisation of the SNP can yet be undone - here's how

Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie arrive for the Warner Brothers Pictures red carpet photocall of "Barbie" during CinemaCon 2023 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 25, 2023. (Photo by BRIDGET BENNETT/AFP via Getty Images)

Barbie is the blockbuster film of summer 2023 - Gaby Soutar

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown during a 'Making Britain Work For Scotland' rally

Gordon Brown’s latest ‘save the Union’ plan faces reality check

New licences to store carbon dioxide means Scotland could lead the world again