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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
A straight person is more likely than a gay person to contract HIV and also more likely to get a late diagnosis

Jenny Gilruth, the cabinet secretary for education and skill, speaks in the Scottish Parliament chamber. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Alex Cole-Hamlton: Sluggishness is my word of the year for Holyrood

Keylocks are a familiar sight across Edinburgh, which critics say has been blighted by Airbnb short-term lets

Parts of short-term lets crackdown in Edinburgh ruled unlawful for second time

The rumours were reported this week. (Photo by Duncan McGlynn/Getty Images)

SNP lockdown affair claims are 'categorically untrue' says party

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    Humza Yousaf pays tribute as Michael Russell steps down as SNP president
    Alistair Grant
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    Ministers delay new small ferries contract in bid to save £41m
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Humza Yousaf pays tribute as Michael Russell steps down as SNP president

Matt Hancock left was appearing before the UK Covid inquiry. Picture: PA Wire

Sturgeon would try to get her Covid announcement out first, says Matt Hancock

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King Charles III meets with Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates - which holds the Cop28 presidency - at Expo City in Dubai on the opening day of the UN climate summit. Picture: Andrew Matthews/Getty Images

UN Cop summits are ‘imperfect’ but 'all we’ve got' to tackle climate warming

The United Nations COP climate summits are an “imperfect process”, Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick...
COP28 must tackle shocking amount of carbon emissions from farming
Up to a third of greenhouse gas emissions globally are caused by food and the way it is produced...

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

Jeremy Hunt hails Alistair Darling as ‘one of the great chancellors’ who did ‘the right thing for the country at a time of extraordinary turmoil’ as the 2008 financial crash unfolded
The evidence that Sunak is a terrible Prime Minister is starting to snowballJoyce McMillan
Joyce McMillan
Matheson's iPad expenses bill is not the only reason why he should be ashamed
More than one in every seven people in Scotland are on an NHS waiting list...
Feumar seanal na Gàidhlig​​​​​​​ a chur air bunait nas seasmhaiche
Anns an là a th’ ann le poileataigs cho suarach, chan eil mòran rudan a tharraingeas taic thar phàrt...

Scottish Independence

Alba Party leader Alex Salmond. Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.

Alex Salmond insists his court case won’t stop SNP support

SNP politicians are job hunting as party prepares to go down without a fight Kenny MacAskill

Here are the questions the SNP paper on EU membership needs to answer but won't Pamela Nash

Constitution secretary Angus Robertson at the Scottish Government EU paper launch at Queen Margaret University. Picture: Scottish Parliament/PA Wire

Independent Scotland could join EU within two years, suggests SNP minister

Why independence offers a major opportunity for Scots business – Angus Robertson Angus Robertson

Social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville with minister for migration and refugees Emma Roddick (right) and minister for independence Jamie Hepburn (left) at the launch of the sixth paper in the Building a New Scotland series, at the V&A in Dundee. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Points-based immigration system 'could be introduced' in indy Scotland

SNP should take Cameron's criticisms seriously after her defection to Tories Scotsman comment

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Global warming has led to a dramatic increase in wildfires in places like California (Picture: David McNew/Getty Images)

COP28 climate summit risks a descent into farcical greenwashing

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Alistair Darling: Tributes pour in for a ‘statesman of unimpeachable integrity’

Alba Party Holyrood leader Ash Regan MSP (right), party leader Alex Salmond (lelft) and Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh (centre), party chair, hold a press conference in Edinburgh. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Alba party sets out plan to hold 2024 vote on extending powers for independence

Former Health Minister Matt Hancock arrives to give evidence for the second time at the covid inquiry on November 30, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Live politics: Hancock at Covid Inquiry, Salmond presser & FMQs

Scotland has lost a very fine man and I will miss him Euan McColm

Even SNP supporters realise Michael Matheson must resign Scotsman comment

Ruinous public service cuts or toxic tax rises? The future looks bleak John McLaren

Former Chancellor and Labour MP Alistair Darling dies aged 70

Circular Economy Minister Lorna Slater. Image: Jane Barlow/Press Association.

Scottish Government criticised for a lack of financial planning

The-then Prince of Wales, now King Charles III, talks with former American secretary of state Dr Henry Kissinger during the Britain In The World conference at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. Picture: PA

Former US secretary of State Henry Kissinger dies aged 100

Humza Yousaf visits Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert, to mark the 75th anniversary of the NHS in July (Picture: Lesley Martin/pool/Getty Images)

Embattled leadership of health board criticised by governance review

Exclusive SNP MPs thinks Michael Matheson should have resigned and warn ‘damage is done’

US President Joe Biden has described Maga Trumpism as 'semi-fascist' (Picture: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

As Tories move towards far-right, it's time to talk about fascism

West cannot keep ignoring Iran's state piracy, warmongering and kidnappings Struan Stevenson

The trafficking of women for sex is a major problem in the UK and the rest of the world (Picture: Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP via Getty Images)

Pimping websites that advertise trafficked women for rape must be prosecuted

Homelessness has hit the highest level since records began (Picture: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Private rented sector can help tackle homelessness – if rents are affordable

Much more work needs to be done to ensure a 'just transition' for workers when the Grangemouth oil refinery closes (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Grangemouth closure plan no surprise, so lack of just transition is worrying

Tom Walker is head of wind at renewables multinational Statkraft, which operates several onshore wind and solar assets in Scotland and the UK has recently opened a new headquarters in Glasgow

How wind sector deal will help meet an era-defining challenge

Douglas Ross helped expose Matheson scandal, but it won't halt Tories' decline Euan McColm

Rishi Sunak meets Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G20 Summit last year (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Rishi Sunak goes all Alan Partridge over 'Elgin Marbles'

Humza Yousaf visits Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert, to mark the 75th anniversary of the NHS in July (Picture: Lesley Martin/pool/Getty Images)

Time to face reality as the NHS crisis deepens

Finance Secretary Shona Robison, seen with Humza Yousaf, faces 'difficult decisions' as she prepares the Scottish Budget (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Tax avoidance does not mean government must cut public spending

Amanda Croft, interim chief executive of NHS Forth Valley, and Janie McCusker, chair of NHS Forth Valley, ahead of the the public session. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

'Ageing population' contributing to issues at 'stage four' health board

Baron of Selkirk James Douglas-Hamilton inspects the Guard of Honour 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh in 2013. Picture: David Cheskin/PA Wire

Tributes paid to ‘true gentleman’ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

Michael Matheson

Matheson accused of 'degrading' politics as majority say he should resign

First Minister Humza Yousaf. Image: Lesley Martin/Press Association.

What is Humza Yousaf doing at COP28?

Rishi Sunak has been criticised for cancelling a meeting with the Greek Prime Minister.

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Politics live: Elgin Marbles and immigration raised at heated PMQs

US president Joe Biden sid in a tweet that violence 'would give Hamas what they seek'. Picture: Getty Images

Is Joe Biden warning Israel not to re-start its bombing campaign on Gaza?

Brexit

Brexiteers and Scottish nationalists are united by an enthusiasm for censorship Euan McColm

Brexit supporters celebrate as the United Kingdom exits the EU on January 31, 2020 (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Brexit myths created 'Schrodinger’s Britain' but the reality is very different

First Minister and SNP Leader Humza Yousaf who will make the case for righting the "historic wrong" of Brexit as he delivers a speech on independence. PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Humza Yousaf: Independence can "right historic wrong" of Brexit

The clock face of Elizabeth Tower, known after the bell Big Ben, shows the hands at 11 o'clock as a Union Flag flies in front of it in London. Picture Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images

Committee on cost-of-living would 'waste taxpayers money’, UK Government say

Has the UK Government turned into a 'Just Say No' machine?

Many EU supporters are frustrated with Labour leader Keir Starmer over his dismissal of a return to the EU (Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Brexit regret is growing and the campaign to rejoin the EU will come

Boris Johnson should focus on addressing the substance of the new Partygate allegations against him (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Populist attacks on UK institutions are unconservative and dangerous

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