Susan Dalgety

SNP MP Joanna Cherry had been due to take part in an event at the Stand comedy club until staff objected

Scotsman Letters: Cherry criticism an unedifying example of ideological zealotry

The Scotsman's front page the day after Queen Elizabeth II's death

Why Scottish Press Awards nomination success is a reward for original journalism

Heavy rain and flooding has caused serious damage to roads and other vital infrastructure in Malawi (Picture: Amos Gumulira/AFP via Getty Images)

Deadly cyclone sees Malawi pay high price for our fossil fuel habit

A protest outside the Scottish Parliament by campaigners concerned about its transgender legislation (Picture: Rebecca McCurdy/PA)

Parents concerned about girls identifying as male have right to free speech

The demonisation of older women has a long history (Picture: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)

Young women complicit in patriarchy turning middle-aged women into 'hags'

Members of the Scottish Parliament should not merely nod through legislation put in front of them, says reader (Picture: Jane Barlow/Getty Images)

Readers Letters: Time MSPs stopped being nodding donkeys

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf (Photo by Fraser Bremner - Pool/Getty Images)

The health crisis lies in dithering and deafness over social care reforms

Campaigners want an independent whistleblowing officer for education and children’s services

Susan Dalgety: Who will stand up for Scotland's children?

Former Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont addresses protesters against the Gender Recognition Reform Bill outside the Scottish Parliament (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Gender bill may have passed, but women are rallying to oppose it – Susan Dalgety

Protesters demonstrate outside the Scottish Parliament against plans to introduce gender self-identification (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Does Sturgeon really have Zero Tolerance of violence against women?

There is a record of poor lawmaking in Scotland, with legislation decided by the courts - not Holyrood - in a number of cases, argues Susan Dalgety.

Bad, flimsy laws undermine the purpose of Holyrood - Susan Dalgety

Community safety minister Ash Regan resigned this week over Scottish Government plans to make it easier for someone to change their legally-recognised gender. Who else will stand up for children as the bill makes its way through parliament?, asks Susan Dalgety. PIC: National World.

Who else will have the courage to protect our children ? - Susan Dalgety

A protest was held by campaign group For Women Scotland at the Scottish Parliament against plans to introduce gender self-identification (Photo: Lisa Ferguson)

Sturgeon can't ignore young women's fears over gender self-ID – Susan Dalgety

The Queen meets her Australian fans at the Roma Street Parklands in Brisbane, Australia in 2002. The Commonwealth stands as Elizabeth II’s global legacy (Picture: Darren England/Getty Images)

King Charles now has the chance to shape world history - Susan Dalgety

Jason Grant

Period dignity officer taking legal action after role axed

Elaine Miller says she has been spat upon for talking about women’s health issues in her Fringe show, Viva Your Vulva: The Hole Story, without mentioning trans women

Male 'period dignity officer' is a parable for our times – Susan Dalgety

Jason Grant was recently hired as a period dignity officer in Tayside which sparked a heated debate on social media (Photo: Grainger PR).

Group defends appointment of man as Period Dignity Officer in area of Scotland

The faded black and white photograph of Susan Dalgety playing football as a toddler which makes her look to the past - but also the future. PIC: Contributed.

This photo reminds me how far I've come - and how far I must go - Susan Dalgety

Massed pipes and drums at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo 1960.

13 pictures of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo from the 1950s and 1960s

Pianist, comedian and actor Dudley Moore during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1960.

20 fascinating pictures of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the 1950s and 1960s

You might have to be quick off the mark to get tickets for these limited run shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

11 one-off and limited run shows at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Elvis Presley, pictured around 1975, may be a direct descendant of a Scot, Andrew Presley, who left Aberdeenshire in the 1740s (Picture: Keystone/Getty Images)

Elvis, who might have Scottish roots, was a musician who changed the world

Nicola Sturgeon has been making friends with world figures like former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ex New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organisation (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/PA Wire)

How Sturgeon's low-key trip to Italy may have revealed her exit strategy

Darren McGarvey's new book was described as an 'essential read' by columnist Susan Dalgety

Readers' Letters: Nobody’s a winner in this vision of class war

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp watch as the jury leave the courtroom for a lunch break at the court in Fairfax, Virginia (Picture: Steve Helber/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Depp vs Heard is not the only reason why women are facing a new dark age

The nature of sex and gender is increasingly being debated (Picture: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Abolishing legal status of sex would rob women of sex-based rights

Voters may discover a shortage of female candidates in Scotland's council elections on May 5 (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

True gender equality in council chambers requires urgent reform – Susan Dalgety

Margaret Thatcher, pictured here in 1991, should rest in uneasy peace and not be celebrated with a national day, writes Susan Dalgety. PIC: (C) BBC - Photographer: Jeff Overs

A Margaret Thatcher Day? Let her rest in uneasy peace - Susan Dalgety

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is under pressure about wife's tax arrangements, which some claim could have saved the family £4m last year. Meanwhile, ordinary people are suffering on a fundamental level given rising costs and taxes, writes Susan Dalgety. PIC. PA.

We must unite to tell the Tories enough is enough in this divided country

Nicola Sturgeon recently apologised over the burning of women as witches in the past, while Glasgow Council leader Susan Aitken apologised for the city's links to the slave trade (Picture: John Linton/PA Wire)

Apologies for historical crimes can distract from modern-day scandals

The late Madeleine Albright argued that progress will only be achieved if women help one another (Picture: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

A new sisterhood is forming in response to gender self-identification plan

Susan Dalgety, who is travelling for a month or so, may not be able to get the results of breast cancer screening in any other way than by post (Picture: Rui Vieira/PA)

How SNP's nationalist approach to everything is holding back NHS

Will Chancellor Rishi Sunak, seen in Cabinet sitting next to Boris Johnson, make amends for his party's economic policies? (Picture: Ben Stansall/PA)

Tories are to blame for the coming financial Armageddon – Susan Dalgety

Social Justice Secretary Shona Robison says violence against women and girls is caused by 'predatory and abusive men not trans people' (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Abusive men will exploit proposed new gender recognition law – Susan Dalgety

Equalities Secretary Shona Robison is due to make a statement on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill next week (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

We need to consider wider impact of gender self-ID – Susan Dalgety

Scotland needs better leaders than Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson to deal with growing cost-of-living crisis (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Sturgeon and Johnson are leading us towards certain disaster – Susan Dalgety

Women protest outside a court hearing where a feminist campaigner, Marion Millar, faced hate crime charges that were later dropped (Picture: John Devlin)

Sturgeon cannot ignore this intervention on gender self-ID – Susan Dalgety

Queen Elizabeth has approved the removal of Prince Andrew's military affiliations and Royal patronages (Picture: Dan Kitwood/WPA pool /Getty Images)

Queen's decision to cut Andrew adrift sends a powerful message – Susan Dalgety

Pregnancy remains potentially dangerous for women, but in the US the leading cause of death is not a medical complication, but being shot (Picture: Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)

Top 10 list of countries with equality of sexes speaks volumes – Susan Dalgety

Nicola Sturgeon should consider emergency regulation to require health and social care staff to be vaccinated against Covid (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Why Covid vaccination should be compulsory for some people – Susan Dalgety

A protest march in Pretoria, South Africa, calling for more Covid vaccines to be made available (Picture: Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty Images)

Omicron is price of developed world's betrayal of human rights – Susan Dalgety

Socialite Kim Kardashian turned to surrogacy to have her fourth child but being able to pay someone to carry a baby only adds to inequality while monetising the female body, says Susan Dalgety. PIC: Getty Images/Frazer Hamilton).

On Black Friday, or any day, our wombs should not be for sale - Susan Dalgety

Malawian farmer Joseph Kamanga walks through a maize field destroyed by dry spells at Lunzu in Blantyre, southern Malawi (Picture: Amos Gumulira/AFP via Getty Images)

Why climate funding for poor countries is not a handout – Susan Dalgety

Medical staff dressed in personal protective equipment prepare to go to work in the main Covid-19 treatment centre at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi (Picture: Amos Gumulira/AFP via Getty Images)

Rich nations hand out booster jabs before poorest get first dose – Susan Dalgety

Covid passports have worked well in France despite initially being criticised (Picture: Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Sturgeon should stick to her guns over vaccine passports – Susan Dalgety

Breasts provide babies with vital nutrients and are an outward sign that the person is female (Picture: Raul Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images)

How 'breast-binding' guidance may damage lives of young girls – Susan Dalgety

Laurel Hubbard is the first transgender woman at the Olympic games but her appearance failed to impress, writes Susan Dalgety. (Picture: Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

It's been a #NoThankYou kind of week for women - Susan Dalgety

Former Australian premier Julia Gillard with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Boris Johnson during a London-based summit to raise funds for the Global Partnership for Education. It fell short of the amount sought (Picture: Tolga Akmen/PA Wire)

Ensuring girls education will create 'most fantastic benefits' – Susan Dalgety

A statue of David Livingstone near Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe (Picture: Zinyange Auntony/AFP via Getty Images)

Why cancel culture is lazy and dangerous – Susan Dalgety

The WHO draft report this week was “silent” on the subject of drink-related violence against women and girls

Women are being reduced to nothing more than breeders - Susan Dalgety

Covid restrictions mean flying into Scotland is complicated

When will I be able to visit my parents again? - Readers' Letters

Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, has alienated some female party members over his commitment to protect trans rights. PIC: Contributed.

Keir Starmer must show courage and protect women and their hard-fought rights -...

A suffragette is arrested by police officers in 1914. The Representation of the People Act, passed in 1918, gave certain women over the age of 30 a vote and the right to stand for Parliament. (Picture: PA)

Why Scotland may need a new Suffragette movement – Susan Dalgety

More than 51,000 people in Scotland are classed as being destitute (Picture: John Devlin)

Will Sturgeon respond to the plight of 51,000 destitute Scots? – Susan Dalgety

Public toilets are not the most glamorous issue, but clean, accessible, and safe conveniences are an absolute necessity

Dear Nicola, Scotland's councils need decent funding – Susan Dalgety

Author and humanitarian J K Rowling has been targeted by hardline Trans activists (Picture: Getty)

Readers' Letters: Trans lobby undermines women’s rights

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