Tom Wood

The police recording of 'hate incidents' where no crime has been committed is pushing Police Scotland into a democratic minefield, writes John McLellan.

Police recording of 'hate incidents' should worry us all - John McLellan

Hard borders make smugglers with any future checkpoints between Scotland and England a potential target for organised crime, writes Tom Wood.

We must outsmart the smugglers on any hard border with England - Tom Wood

Detectives putting up Evening News posters in the High Street seeking information about the The World's End murders in Edinburgh in 1977

Police should realise that the media can be their friends - Tom Wood

Mo Farah revealed he was brought to the UK illegally as a child and that his real name was Hussein Abdi Kahin (Picture: Michael Steele/Getty Images)

Modern-day slavery is all too real. So why the focus on age-old statues?

Staff shortages are causing problems for essential public services, such as the police (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Essential public services are facing major staff shortage crisis – Tom Wood

The recent shooting at Robb Elementary School in Texas highlights once again the obscene corruption of the American constitution in terms of gun ownership, writes Tom Wood. PIC: Contributed

Guns are not just an American problem - we can't afford to be complacent either

Rebekah Vardy arrives at Royal Courts of Justice during the so-called 'Wagatha Christie' libel case (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

These truly are strange times for justice – Tom Wood

Salamander, a new play by Cal Ferguson and Mhairi McCall, to premiere at Edinburgh Fringe

Unsolved murder of sex worker inspires new play set to premiere at Fringe

Russian journalist Oksana Baulina, who had worked for Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny's anti-corruption foundation, was killed while filming damage from shelling in Ukraine's capital Kyiv for investigative website The Inside (Picture: Pavel Golovkin/AP)

Brave journalists on Ukraine frontline remind us of importance of free media

Boris Johnson eyes up a display of cakes and desserts on a trip to Truro (Picture: Justin Tallis/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Here's a question for the Partygate lynch mob to ask themselves – Tom Wood

The remarkably low arrest rate during COP26 demonstrations in Glasgow reflects well on both the police and the protesters (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

How the unsung heroes of COP26 did their job – Tom Wood

A man leaves a cross for his brother during an event to remember the victims of drugs at Springburn Parish Church in Glasgow last year

Why Scotland's drug-death crisis may take years to improve – Tom Wood

The Covid pandemic has seen sales of bicycles boom (Picture: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Velo/Getty Images)

Cycling boom means rules of the road must be more rigorously enforced – Tom Wood

Police officers and other workers on the Covid frontline may need help to cope with post-traumatic illnesses, says Tom Wood (Picture: John Devlin)

NHS will need help to deal with pandemic's post-traumatic illnesses – Tom Wood

Members of the NUM miners' union picket line clash with police outside Bilston Glen colliery during the miners strike in June 1984.

The real lesson from the miners' strike in Scotland - Tom Wood

Police are facing an increasingly volatile situation as extremism on social media spills over into real life, says Tom Wood (Picture: John Devlin)

Police may struggle if extremists capitalise on winter of discontent – Tom Wood

There’s more loneliness than lust in parts of our sex industry - Tom Wood

Police stand guard in front of the Kenosha County Courthouse during a second day of unrest on August 24, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Jacob Blake shooting: Some see racism, I saw poor training and panic – Tom Wood

Staff in care homes and who visit eldery people at home are similarly stretched, says Tom Wood

Covid inquiry must not be a witch hunt – Tom Wood

Concerns over safety of people celebrating Hogmanay at the Tron helped prompt the switch to Princes Street (Picture: Jane Barlow)

Why Edinburgh’s Hogmanay street party shouldn’t return to the Tron – Tom Wood

The paraphernalia of illegal drug use (Picture: Ian Georgeson)

Why cutting drug-programme money would be an act of self-harm – Tom Wood

Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli has been given a life ban from the Gilded Balloon (Picture: Jane Hobson/Shutterstock)

Gilded Balloon takes principled stand against toxic culture – Tom Wood

Number 10 special advisor Dominic Cummings leaves his home in north London (Picture: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images)

Why I’m glad Dominic Cummings wasn’t forced to quit – Tom Wood

Has our response to Covid-19 coronavirus been damaged by a reduction in emergency planning? (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Covid reveals true price of brutal cuts during years of austerity – Tom Wood

Janice Graham (right), a health care support worker and district nurse, sadly passed away at Inverclyde Royal Hospital while Jane Murphy (left), 73, worked at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as a clinical support worker

90 frontline NHS workers to have died during coronavirus pandemic

New website helps key workers locate open garages near them

Cuban president Fidel Castro, left, and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev hug at the United Nations in this late 1960 file photo. (Picture: Marty Lederhandler/AP)

Coronavirus: How we can learn from Cold War plans for a nuclear attack – Tom Woo...

AI can help catch criminals, whatever ‘experts’ say – Tom Wood

How we could tackle the scourge of drugs if we wanted to – Tom Wood

Caroline Hogg murder: City scarred 30 years on

World’s End murders accused set for retrial

Catherine Salmond: Shooting galleries offer a fix for the city's heroin problem

New spy cameras to curb the kerb crawlers

Drugs tsar urges ministers to up price of 'antisocial' cider

Clock ticking on Edinburgh cocaine timebomb

Deaths from cocaine double and toll is set to grow

Lothians police draw guns four times per week

Fakes amnesty brings in 100 guns

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Scottish Secretary Alister Jack

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack says he will stand down at the next election

Earlier this month, a young female humpback was found washed up on the banks of Loch Fleet, near Golspie, in the Scottish Highlands (pic: Stefanie/Highland Croft)

Why are we seeing whales washed up on Scotland’s shores?