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Humza Yousaf was described as the continuity candidate during the SNP leadership contest (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Yousaf is not the new broom that the SNP desperately needs – Kenny MacAskill

Nicola Sturgeon speaks to the media outside her home in Uddingston, after her husband, former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, was 'released without charge pending further investigation' amid a police probe into the party's finances (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Was the Scottish Government under Sturgeon run like the SNP? – Brian Wilson

Chan eil fiù ‘s nach do nochd duilgheadas leis an Loch Seaforth an t-seachdain sa

Tha an t-àm ann daoine fhaighinn a thuigeas na h-eileanan, le Murray MacLeòid

Humza Yousaf has been elected as SNP leader and set to become Scotland's first minister.

As it happened: as Humza Yousaf elected new SNP leader

Kate Forbes, Ash Regan and Humza Yousaf at the Cumbernauld hustings (Picture: Andy Buchanan/Getty Images)

Reader's Letters: Is SNP finally getting real on independence?

SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes has come under fire for her views on a number of social issues (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

Brian Wilson: Attacks on Kate Forbes are intolerance dressed up as liberalism

Deputy First Minister and temporary Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Economy, John Swinney

Deputy First Minister John Swinney will not run for SNP leader

Picture: JPI Media/Shutterstock

The Steamie podcast: Sunak and Sturgeon face off

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Ambulance workers in Scotland have worked more than three million hours of paid overtime in the past five years. Picture: John Devlin

Ambulance staff take on 3.3 million hours of overtime since 2017

Ambulance delays at accident and emergency departments across the country are a question of management, not money, writes Brian Wilson. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

NHS pressures are about management, not money - so fix it, or get out Mr Yousaf

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar dealt with hard reality among the hypotheticals of FMQs, writes Brian Wilson.

Keep it up with the questions Mr Sarwar, for Scotland's sake - Brian Wilson

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon holds a press conference to launch the third Building a New Scotland paper yesterday (Picture: David Cheskin-Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Sturgeon still unconvincing on independence

Nicola Sturgeon (right) told Laura Kuenssberg: ‘I detest the Tories and everything they stand for’ (Picture: Russell Cheyne/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Sturgeon painting Tories as panto villains is dangerous - Russell Findlay

The Scottish Government is under pressure to reveal the outcome of a bullying complaint against former minister, Fergus Ewing.

Transparency ruling shows Sturgeon 'lied to Holyrood' around Ewing probe outcome...

Prime Minister Liz Truss delivers her keynote speech on the final day of the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham

Why higher economic growth may just save the Conservatives - Brian Monteith

Nicola Sturgeon outlines her arguments for indyref2 on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show
(Photo by Russell Cheyne/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Sturgeon: UK Govt should allow indyref2 poll if it believes it can win

First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party Nicola Sturgeon, who has asked the Lord Advocate to refer the question of whether Holyrood can pass a referendum bill to the Supreme Court.

Tax harmonisation is critical for Scotland - Betsy Williamson

People take part in a trade union pay protest on Buchanan Street, Glasgow, as bin workers walk out in several council areas (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

SNP's contempt for local government is coming home to roost – Brian Wilson

Edinburgh's refuse workers have walked out over pay

Crunch talks to take place over Edinburgh's crippling bin strike

There are calls for both the UK and Scottish Governments to act while households and businesses face “immense pressure” (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images).

'Catastrophe on vast scale' if no action taken on inflation rate increase

The supermoon will be visible tonight

Tonight’s supermoon -what is the Sturgeon moon and what does it mean?

A member of staff at The National Archives of Scotland, in Edinburgh, looks over the Act of Union of the Scottish Parliament

Readers' letters: The Treaty of Union was signed under duress

Penny Mordaunt, arrives at the BBC to appear on the BBC's 'Sunday Morning' political television show

Conservative leadership hopefuls reveal Modern Life is Rubbish - Brian Monteith

Nicola Sturgeon will host a summit on abortion care in Edinburgh today

Sturgeon: 'I'm confident we can find a way forward on buffer zones'

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon launches a paper designed to inform the debate on a second independence referendum for Scotland, but the paper - crucially - failed mention of anything could be done better using the powers and resources already controlled by the Scottish Government, writes Brian Wilson.

Sturgeon's prolonged referendum stunt will backfire on her - Brian Wilson

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood (Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire).

What we learned at FMQs today

Revered Karen Hendry, of the Church of Scotland, appeared at the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee to lend her support to self-id. Susan Dalgety wonders where the dissenting voices were. PIC: Scottish Parliament.

Beware of 'insider Scotland' and Sturgeon's New Model Army - Susan Dalgety

Problems with Scotland's train services have now been added to its ferry woes (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

If SNP didn’t like hearing about ferries, they’ll hate ‘trains, trains, trains’

First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on May 16. (Photo: Pedro Ugarte/Getty Images)

Scotland on Sunday readers' letters: Washington speech greenwashing the Sturgeon...

Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville (Picture: Fraser Bremner/Scottish Daily Mail/pool/PA)

I feel ashamed of how Scotland is failing its poorest children – Brian Wilson

Work continues on the unfinished Glen Sannox ferry at the Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Only a public inquiry will get at truth about missing ferries – Brian Wilson

Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, leaves 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Ministers Questions at the House of Parliament on April 20. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

Scotland on Sunday readers' letters: Boris Johnson has indispensable role in int...

The National Clinical Director Jason Leitch has been criticised for defending Nicola Sturgeon after she was pictured in a barber shop without a face mask.

Jason Leitch defends Nicola Sturgeon over face mask fallout

Scottish Greens co-leaders Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie should be more respectful of other people's opinions (Picture: John Devlin)

The only opinions respected by intolerant Greens are their own – Brian Wilson

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon leaves after attending a Service of Thanksgiving for Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London on March 29, 2022. Photo: Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images

Scotland on Sunday readers' letters: Sturgeon making rules just to appear differ...

Alba Party leader and former first minister Alex Salmond gives a speech during the Alba Party conference in Glasgow. Picture: John Devlin

Crown Office to investigate perjury claims over Alex Salmond criminal trial

Masks will remain in the majority of settings

Business anger as face mask rules remain in Scotland until Easter

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Photo: Andrew Cowan/Scottish Parliament/PA

The SNP needs a plan for a post-independence military - Marcel Plichta

An independent inquiry should be held into the ferries scandal centred on the Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow (Picture: Lewis McKenzie/PA)

Here's a prime example of the SNP’s spendthrift incompetence – Brian Wilson

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during First Minster's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Picture date: Thursday February 3, 2022.

Covid cases and hospitalisations to be published less often

Power in Scotland is increasingly centralised within St Andrew's House, says Brian Wilson (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

If governments don’t co-operate, Levelling Up won't work – Brian Wilson

Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon launch the Scottish government's White Paper on independence in 2013 (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

Civil service is wasting time and money updating Salmond's fables – Brian Wilson

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar raised human rights issues around the companies awarded ScotWind projects. Picture: PA

FMQs: Sarwar claims Scottish seabed rights sold to 'questionable' firms

Glasgow's Celtic Connections music festival is due to get underway on Thursday. Picture: Gaelle Beri

Crowd curbs on concert halls, music venues and festivals to be lifted next week

A customer sits with his beer in Jackson's Bar in the city centre of Glasgow on October 8, 2020. Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images

'Hammer blow' for businesses as events cancelled and table service returns

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon beside a screen which was been erected around tables during a visit to Cold Town House in Edinburgh's Grassmarket in July 2020.

Businesses told to limit numbers and reintroduce one-way systems

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon updates the Scottish Parliament on her new Covid guidance (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Sturgeon protests too much over Covid aid

Older school pupils will be asked to complete the survey.

Scottish Government ‘will not’ consider withdrawing school sex survey

Shell's decision to pull out of the proposed Cambo oil and gas field has put the project in doubt (Picture: Getty Images)

SNP needs to grow up about North Sea oil industry's future – Brian Wilson

Kimberly Darroch, whose 10-year-old daughter Milly Main died in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow after contracting an infection

Grieving families warn of more deaths at flagship hospital unless action taken

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during a session of First Minster's Questions in the debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament earlier this year. (Photo byJane Barlow-Pool/Getty Images)

SNP failures only makes Sturgeon look more indispensable - Brian Monteith

Andrew Slorance contracted the fungal infection Aspergillus while in QEUH.

Sarwar renews calls for senior management sacking at troubled Glasgow hospital

Is Nicola Sturgeon playing with lives by not extending the Covid passport scheme (Photo by Wattie Cheung - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Sturgeon won’t be on NHS workers' Christmas list

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - OCTOBER 13: A general view of the Scottish Events Centre (SEC) on October 13, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. COP26 will officially begin on Sunday October 31 with the procedural opening of negotiations and finish on Monday November 12th. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Cruise ship arrives on River Clyde for COP26

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon gets away with not addressing concerns, says reader (Picture: Fraser Bremner - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Opposition fails to hold Sturgeon to account

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