Brian Wilson

Up to 400 jobs are at risk after bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis announced plans to move operations from Falkirk and Larbert to Scarborough (Picture: Michael Gillen)

Readers Letters: Are both SNP and Labour OK with bus firm leaving Scotland?

An above-average day of surf at Portobello

Ain't No Surf in Portobello (except once in a blue moon)

Brian Wilson was never short of something interesting to say.

Brian Wilson in Quotes: 15 insightful quotes from the Beach Boys star

Douglas Ross collects his belongings after being is asked to leave the chamber by the Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone during First Minister's Questions last week (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Why Scotland has too many politicians

Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on a giant screen at Red Square as he addresses a rally in 2022 (Picture: Alexander NEMENOV/AFP)

Readers' Letters: Appeasement will only feed Russia's territorial ambitions

John Swinney speaks in the Scottish Parliament. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Readers' Letters: There’s no need for a new law around non-fatal strangulation

Palliative care services are facing extreme financial pressure (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Readers' Letters: We must stop kicking the assisted dying can down the road

It was a rivalry of a friendly, competitive nature - but in the pursuit of "one upping" The Beatles, led to a near 40 year wait for The Beach Boys, or rather, Brian Wilson's response.

The Beatles vs The Beach Boys: the "rivalry" that changed pop music

A reader suggests wind farms could be made the subject of a windfall tax (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers' Letters: Why can't we impose a windfall tax on wind farms?

Could Aritificial Intelligence be the key to resolving intractable political differences? (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Readers' letters: AI delivers its verdict on GERS figures controversy

Shona Robison was Convener of the Social Justice and Fairness Commission whose 2021 report strongly favoured land value taxation (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Natural resources are a potential revenue stream for Holyrood

First Minister John Swinney and finance secretary Shona Robison. Picture: Lisa Ferguson/National World

If Scotland was a business it would now be heading for bust Brian Wilson

Why it’s time to stop obsessing about opinion polls' wild predictions Brian Wilson

Keir Starmer is all smiles on a visit to Whitburn but Labour faces a tough task in government (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Labour's political honeymoon will be unusually short

The SNP knows the mood for change will not stop at Westminster Brian Wilson

Sunak confirms himself a liability to the Tories Brian Wilson

How Keir Starmer rescued Labour from Jeremy Corbyn’s political fantasies Brian Wilson

Swinney’s response to Matheson scandal shows he's as big a liability as Yousaf Brian Wilson

SNP will claim Labour government won't change anything. Trust me, it will Brian Wilson

Post Office Horizon affair is exposing a wider 'debt' collection scandal Brian Wilson

Labour's rise will motivate more voters than SNP's new heir apparent Brian Wilson

Yousaf is right about need for 'new beginning'. But it should be without him Brian Wilson

Budget's minor largesse cannot hide the country's problems Brian Wilson

Sir Keir Starmer admitted to 'urging' Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to widen the debate, glossing over the many connotations of 'urged'

Readers' Letters: Thwarting parliamentary debate no was to fix Gaza

Flynn could have emerged as the unlikely statesman if he'd sought common ground Brian Wilson

After Matheson's resignation, SNP’s apparatchik class rearranges the deckchairs Brian Wilson

Tony Blair walks to a cabinet meeting flanked by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott (left) and chief of staff Jonathan Powell in 2007 (Picture: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Brian Wilson would know all about 'secretive cabals'

Scotland deserves better than SNP's scheming, secretive cabal Brian Wilson

Councillor Scott Arthur claims closing ever more roads in Edinburgh city centre is a popular move with residents (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Readers' Letters: Edinburgh doesn't want a city only fit and young can access

Nicola Sturgeon played politics with Covid, and now all Scotland knows it Brian Wilson

Would lots of Scots really like to own a slice of land in the Highlands? (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Readers' letters: Where is the demand to buy strips of land?

As lairds salivate over £127m of public money, radical land reform is stymied Brian Wilson

Sturgeon's deleted WhatsApps are scandal on par with Downing Street parties Brian Wilson

SNP's 'blame Westminster' line over Post Office scandal shows lack of contrition Brian Wilson

Justice is at last catching up with real villains of Post Office scandal Brian WIlson

Rt Rev Sally Foster-Fulton says closing churches will be painful but essential (Picture: Andy O'Brien)

Readers' Letters: Christianity will thrive despite Church of Scotland's demise

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visits the Tapa NATO forward operating base in Estonia close to the Russian border where he and shadow defence secretary John Healey saw exercises and met soldiers (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

Readers' letters: No hope of radical change with 'oven ready' Keir Starmer

Humza Yousaf and Deputy First Minister Shona Robison are presiding over a government that's tougher on local government than Margaret Thatcher ever was (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

For Scotland's councils, the SNP are worse than Thatcher

The public has a right to know why Humza Yousaf met the Turkish President Brian Wilson

Christmas is the perfect time for a vinyl and CD revival Euan McColm

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

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?
Unfortunately for Brian Wilson (The Scotsman, November, 25) on the very day he castigates the SNP on its Just transition plans, it was reported that Labour has ...

Grangemouth oil refinery could close as early as spring 2025 with the loss of 400 jobs (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Grangemouth closure plan sees the SNP heading for a collision with reality

SNP ministers have long thought they could do what they liked Brian Wilson

The UK Government is proposing to issue hundreds of new licences for oil and gas exploration in the North Sea

Scotsman Letters: What happened to the bIllions of pounds of Scots oil revenue?

Being ‘not as bad as the Tories’ is now the height of SNP ambition Brian Wilson

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar should not just bask in the findings of the Our Scottish Future report but get to work on mapping out how devolved government could function more effectively under his tenure, writes Brian Wilson. PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Scotland is governed by too much talk, too little action

The Glen Sannox ferry pictured at the Ferguson Marine shipyard last year (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Even Donald Trump could learn from the SNP about how to evade responsibility

The SNP’s 'Fergus Ewing problem' is that he’s right and they’re wrong Brian Wilson

Labour was in control when the flawed contracts for the ambitious Edinburgh trams scheme were signed.

Scotsman Letters: Labour's principal role in costly Edinburgh trams debacle

Damning indictment of Swinney's 'lack of candour' reveals much about Scotland Brian Wilson

Sunak can learn from Churchill about how to hit net zero Brian Wilson

SNP has managed to turn B&B owners into a protest movement Brian Wilson

Why Anas Sarwar is right to reach out to pro-independence voters Brian Wilson

The ineffectual processing of asylum seeker applications in Britain has been highlighted as a growing concern

Scotsman Letters: Shortage of processing staff adds to asylum seeker crisis

The Tories' asylum system is broken and cruel Brian Wilson

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