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Harriet Walter in Brian and Maggie

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Author Irvine Welsh, pictured at Leith Theatre. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

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Andrew Bowie is the new shadow Scotland Secretary

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Conservative Party Chairman Michael Ancram at the Conservative Party Conference in 2000 (Picture: Colin Davey/Getty Images)

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Meghan Gallacher has called for an investigation into Douglas Ross.

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Entry to the National Gallery of Scotland is free (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

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Why Thatcher's 'greatest achievement' should make you wary of voting Labour Stewart McDonald

SNP leader John Swinney (left) and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, clashed over austerity in a BBC Debate Night election special (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

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The four letter word which is the key to growing old successfully Susan Dalgety

Market traders will be keeping a very close eye on how equities perform in the wake of July 4's general election outcome.

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Argentina's president Javier Milei delivers a speech during a ceremony to commemorate the 42nd anniversary of the war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Malvinas/Falkland islands, at the Cenotaph to the Fallen of the Malvinas War in Buenos Aires, last month. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Argentine president vows to regain Falkland Islands from UK

Frank Field was a tireless campaigner on social reform (Picture: Isabel Infantes/AFP)

Scotsman Obituaries: Frank Field, Labour Party political maverick

Kyogo Furuhashi in the sunshine at Dens Park in November 2021 - Celtic won 4-2 that afternoon and are unbeaten at the stadium since 1988 (Photo by Ross MacDonald / SNS Group)

Lifting the lid on Celtic's 'gob-smacking' record v Dundee at Dens Park

Islay House is on the market for £3m. PIC: Knight Frank

Prestigious house on whisky island on market for £3m

Damian Barr and James Ley PIC: Kirsty Anderson

Damian Barr on adapting his memoir Maggie & Me for the stage

Margaret Thatcher. Picture: PA

SNP treats councils worse than Thatcher did, says former Scottish Labour leader

The 1980s will be a decade remembered for many things including bold fashions and big phones. Picture: John Phillips

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Behind the 1984 miners’ strike, a legacy of pride, solidarity and patriotism Henry McLeish

We are witnessing the death of aspiration among an entire generation Stewart McDonald

The front cover of the book "Spy Catcher" by Peter Wright. Photo: PA Wire

Margaret Thatcher’s losing battle to stop Spycatcher publication

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

Sir Keir Starmer said Margaret Thatcher set loose Britain’s 'natural entrepreneurialism'. Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Sarwar defends Starmer's comments about Margaret Thatcher in Telegraph article

Analysis Keir Starmer did not praise Margaret Thatcher, but it was still damaging

Thatcher wouldn't think much of Starmer's stance on private school fees John McLellan

Margaret Thatcher looking pensive at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool in 1985. PIC: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Sir Keir Starmer criticised for praising Margaret Thatcher

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

External Affairs Secretary Angus Robertson has been visiting a number of Chinese cities (Picture: Scottish Parliament/PA Wire)

Scotland should not get too cosy with Communist China as others ‘de-risk’

Writer and broadcaster Damian Barr is adapting his award-winning memoir Maggie & Me with playwright James Ley for a new National Theatre of Scotland play. Picture: Kirsty Anderson

Maggie & Me: Damian Barr's 1980s memoir to become new stage play

On Britain's streets, homeless people sleep in tents, something Suella Braverman says is a 'lifestyle choice'

Readers' Letters: Braverman's views on homeless are 'vile'

Firefighters make their way through flood water on the A811 as torrential rain continued on 7 October in Drymen, Stirlingshire (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers Letters: Government's skewed priorities risks lives

The Reckoning reviewed: This is Coogan's Hannibal Lecter

BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell is retiring after 47 years.

‘Awful’ BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell retires

Reader is unconvinced of Douglas Ross's grasp of economic reality (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Brexit has put Britain in disastrous economic straits

Some of the hundreds of workers employed on the construction of the Cunard liner Queen Mary at John Brown's shipyard, Clydebank, leaving the vessel at lunchtime, circa 1935 (Picture: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Don't blame Gordon Brown for heavy industry woes

The Alba Party have hit out after a billboard poster was rejected by Global. Image: Peter Summers/Getty Images.

Alba Party billboard rejected

Scotland a colony? 'Muscular unionists' want to end right to self-determination Kenny MacAskill

NHS crisis is being fuelled by broken Britain’s often heartless society Joyce McMillan

Thames Water crisis is latest sign that Thatcher's privatisations have failed
Doctrinaire neoliberalism must be replaced by a new economic orthodoxy or the resulting policy vacuum will spawn more monsters like Trump and Putin
Joyce McMillan

Labour will not grant new exploration licences for North Sea oil and gas fields if it wins the next general election. Image: Press Association.

Former Aberdeen Lord Provost quits Labour group over North Sea oil plans

Adam Smith, born in Kirkcaldy 300 years ago this month and here in statue form on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, remains Britain's most influential economist, writes Anna Plassart, senior lecturer in history at The Open University. PIC: Stefan Schaefer, Lich/CC.

On his 300th birthday, Adam Smith remains Britain’s most influential economist

Silvio Berlusconi at one of his official residences in Rome in 2002 (Picture: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images)

Scotsman Obituaries: Silvio Berlusconi, three-time Italian prime minister

Star Wars is a space opera film series created by George Lucas that quickly exploded into a pop culture phenomenon.

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Star Wars is a space opera film series created by George Lucas that quickly exploded into a pop culture phenomenon.

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Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon alongside her successor Humza Yousaf during an update to MSPs on changes to the Covid-19 restrictions at the Scottish Parliament. Picture: PA

How Yousafian ideology must go beyond Sturgeon's 'Scotland First' approach

Nigel Lawson photographed on Budget Day in March 1984

Obituaries: Nigel Lawson, Margaret Thatcher’s ‘unassailable’ Chancellor who quit...

Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, with his wife Thérèse outside 11 Downing Street in London on Budget Day, 17th March 1987. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tributes to former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson following death at 91

Sir Bernard Ingham talks to Baroness Thatcher at the 1998 Television and Radio Industry Club Awards in London (Picture: PA)

Scotsman Obituaries: Sir Bernard Ingham, press secretary to Margaret Thatcher

Sir Bernard Ingham pictured in 2010 in London

Sir Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher’s long-serving press secretary, dies at 90

Sir Bernard Ingham arrives in Downing Street to attend a party to celebrate the 85th birthday of Baroness Thatcher on October 14, 2010 (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Sir Bernard Ingham - press secretary to Margaret Thatcher- dies at 90

Dominic Raab has insisted he "behaved professionally at all times" despite facing allegations of bullying.

Raab insists 'I behaved professionally at all times'

Richard Sharp (left) and Boris Johnson. BBC chairman Richard Sharp has insisted there was no conflict of interest in his appointment to the role.

How are BBC chairman appointed and what is the controversy around Richard Sharp?

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is now exposed on her domestic performance as her independence strategy fails to provide safe cover, even among her own supporters, argues Murdo Fraser. (Photo by Jane Barlow - Pool/Getty Images)

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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

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