United Kingdom

We must do more than vote to be good citizens (Picture: Ian Forsyth)

Ten things we can all do to save the ‘fragile experiment in democracy’ Henry McLeish

Wind turbines should be viewed as a symbol of hope (Picture: William Edwards)

How to turn cost-of-living crisis into cost-of-living miracle Ian Johnston

Keir Starmer has failed to live up to the expectation of change that people wanted to see following last year’s rejection of the Conservatives (Picture: Carl Court)

How, one year after beating Tories, Labour has delivered more of same Stephen Gethins

On the west coast of South Harris, in the Outer Hebrides, you will find the white sands of Luskentyre Beach

Scottish beach with ‘miles of white sand’ is crowned best in UK

Oban had an overall affordability score of 9.82 out of 10.

The UK's 'cheapest' seaside town is in Scotland, according to survey

Bobby Vylan of rap duo Bob Vylan performs at Glastonbury festival (Picture: Leon Neal)

'Death to IDF' chant turns Glastonbury into 'Summer of Hate' festival Ian Johnston

Ukraine needs munitions and so does the British Army (Picture: Sergey Shestak)

SNP's policy of 'unarmed' Armed Forces is sheer madness Scotsman comment

People who supported Brexit celebrate on the day the UK formally left the European Union. Few seem quite so enthusiastic today (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

How ‘stupidest thing any country has ever done' is behind benefit cuts Stephen Gethins

Migrants abandon a people-smugglers' boat after it was punctured with a knife by French police to stop them attempting to cross the English Channel from a beach at Gravelines, near Dunkirk (Picture: Sameer Al-Doumy)

How a UK national ID card would 'stop the boats' Stephen Jardine

John Swinney and Keir Starmer do not have their troubles to seek (Picture: Andy Buchanan/pool)

Why 'first draft of history' has lots of bad news for SNP and Labour John McLellan

Some fear that African swine fever could be the death knell for the UK pig industry (Picture: Damien Meyer)

Death knell for pigs? How dangerous animal diseases pose real threat Alistair Carmichael

Keir Starmer speaks to US President Donald Trump at the Nato summit in The Hague (Picture: Kin Cheung/pool)

Why UK needs to pander to Trump but should not necessarily believe him Scotsman comment

Many Three and iD Mobile users are unable to make calls today.

Mobile phone network Three and Three iD Mobile down

Scotland Pension

Is a SIPP right for you? Five things Scots should know before investing

Increasing taxes is not the way to create a more prosperous future (Picture: Henry Nicholls)

Why targeting wealthy non-doms means we'll all pay higher taxes Brian Monteith

Scotland to become an AI Marketing Hub as a £750 Billion Opportunity Looms

'At Lunar House a woman interviewed me, and wrote down all my details' (Picture: Scott Barbour)

A Refugee's Tale as told to Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah Abdulrazak Gurnah

Members of the Royal Marines land on Juno beach, Normandy, on D-Day, June 6, 1944 (Picture: Hulton Archive)

D-Day: Why today's young generation will be just as brave if war comes Lt Col Stuart Crawford

Land craft, barrage balloons and ships at Omaha beach shortly after the invasion in June 1944 (Picture: Three Lions)

Why we should always be inspired by the heroes of D-Day Scotsman comment

British soldiers storm an enemy position during Nato's 'Brilliant Jump' exercises in Poland last year (Picture: Sean Gallup)

Why SNP's 'no ammunition' defence policy is utterly indefensible Alistair Carmichael

As a former 'illegal' migrant, here's why current rhetoric is so toxic Catriona Stewart

US troops took part in Nato's Allied Spirit 25 military exercise in Germany in March this year (Picture: Sean Gallup)

Nato faces a make-or-break decision about how to protect Europe Professor Amelia Hadfield

Residents with care home colleague at HC-One care home

Linlithgow care home prepares to take part in the Great British Care Cycle Relay...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and First Minister John Swinney

Keir Starmer: No independence referendum while I am PM

Prince William rides in a Challenger 2 tank while visiting British forces at the Tapa army base in northern Estonia in March (Picture: Raigo Pajula)

Starmer must do more to put UK in state of 'war-fighting readiness' Scotsman comment

Nigel Farage's Reform UK party are confident of a good result in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Those in politics for right reasons must stand together against Reform Christine Jardine

A protester communicates with people held inside the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre near Gatwick Airport (Picture: Niklas Halle'n)

Refugee Tales: Why indefinite detention in UK should shock us all David Herd

Archie Borthwick and Ollie Little, from the Loretto School Pipe Band piping onboard D/S Hestmanden on Monday.

The 114-year-old Norwegian war vessel that has berthed in Leith

Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, inspects a parade of supporters before calling off a march through London's East End in 1936 (Picture: Becker/Fox Photos)

Today's culture warriors are marching to same beat as 1930s fascists Ian Johnston

What CD singles that used to permeate supermarkets and CD stores in the 90s and 00s are users of Discogs still hunting for?

The most wanted CD singles that could be hidden at charity shops

An oil industry supply vessel docked at Aberdeen Harbour (Picture: Andy Buchanan)

Food banks in Aberdeen? Why once wealthy city fears economic disaster Martin Roche

Billy Joel has cancelled all his tour dates as he undergoes treatment for NPH - a brain disorder that affects those over 65.

Billy Joel cancels tour dates as he undergoes brain disorder treatment

Palestinians struggle to get food rations outside a distribution centre in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip (Picture: Bashar Taleb)

Israel must come to its senses as Gaza babies face death by starvation Scotsman comment

Keir Starmer and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen discuss the new UK-EU deal at a press conference in London (Picture: Carl Court)

After Labour's tentative step towards EU, business wants bolder action Scotsman comment

Eurovision legend Cheryl Baker, who won the contest in 1981 for the UK with Bucks Fizz, has passed on her advice to this year's UK act Remember Monday.

Exclusive Bucks Fizz's Cheryl Baker: 'Every Eurovision winner needs a skirt-rip'

Children at a school on the outskirts of Lilongwe, Malawi, a country that become independent from the UK only 60 years ago (Picture: Amos Gumulira)

Labour is betraying the world's poorest people – and its core values Susan Dalgety

The UK's GDP figures for April to June should shed more light on whether Labour's policies are the right ones for the economy (Picture: Peter Cziborra/WPA pool)

Labour right to talk Britain up after some good news on the economy Scotsman comment

Rising early to hear the dawn chorus in full song is definitely worth it (Picture: Jane Barlow)

I got up early to experience dawn chorus. Here's why you should too Philip Lymbery

Renewable Energy

The UK’s commitment to tech and renewable energy innovation is driving foreign i...

Increasing our expertise in dealing with hackers should provide valuable insights into how the UK would defend itself from cyber attacks during a war (Picture: Sean Gallup)

UK must use war on hackers to prepare for online 'Battle of Britain' Scotsman comment

A “secret weapon” is being developed and could be used by Royal Navy technicians to search for Russian submarines. Pictured: HMS Tyne with Russian Kilo-class submarine Krasnodar in the background.

"Secret weapon" being tested for Royal Navy to hunt Russia submarines

Keir Starmer is leading Labour into the same immigration trap that is destroying the Conservative party (Picture: Benjamin Cremel/WPA pool)

How Keir Starmer is playing into Nigel Farage's hands on immigration
This country cannot take another Brexit-style blow to its economy
Scotsman comment

Soldiers of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, take part in a training exercise (Picture: Alexander Koerner)

How Germany has gone from hated world war foe to indispensible ally Dr Bernhard Blumenau

Donald Trump shakes hands with Peter Mandelson, the UK's ambassador to the US, during the announcement of a new trade deal between the two countries (Picture: Anna Moneymaker)

Starmer needs to rebuild relations with UK's biggest trading partner Christine Jardine

Labor party leader Anthony Albanese, seen holding up his Medicare card, was successful because of a focus on issues that matter to people's lives, like healthcare (Picture: Asanka Ratnayake)

Four big lessons from Australian Labor party's surprise landslide Professor Ariadne Vromen

Lisa Nandy, now UK Culture Secretary, viewed models of wind turbines at the Orsted Visitor Centre in Grimsby in 2022 (Picture: Christopher Furlong)

Scrapping of wind farm is warning about over-reliance on renewables Brian Wilson

During the Second World War, Stephen Jardine's father witnessed Japanese Kamikaze pilots crashing into Allied ships, killing thousands of people (Picture: Keystone)

Why those who wish we'd stop remembering the war are plain wrong Stephen Jardine

For many on the Continent, VE Day and Europe Day are inextricably linked, with the European Union helping to preserve peace and democracy for decades (Picture: Thomas Samson)

Tory slurs about EU ring hollow as it mobilises to meet Putin threat Stephen Gethins

Keir Starmer hailed the US-UK trade deal during a visit to a Jaguar Land Rover factory in Solihull (Picture: Alberto Pezzali/ WPA pool)

UK-US trade deal is welcome sign of peace amid Trump's economic war Scotsman comment

Women dressed in the flags of the USA, France, the UK and Soviet Union celebrate on VE Day in Paris (Picture: Keystone/Hulton Archive)

The Scotsman's editorial from VE Day on May 8, 1945 Scotsman comment

Why this VE Day story may be the happiest of all Scotsman comment

Nigel Farage celebrates with the newly elected Reform MP Sarah Pochin (Picture: Anthony Devlin)

Labour can beat Reform by exposing policies like migrant tent camps Brian Wilson

Paul Sinton-Hewitt and Ellie Simmonds at Finsbury parkrun as the parkwalk record was smashed on parkrun and Vitality’s ‘Let’s Walk’ day.

parkwalk record smashed on parkrun and Vitality’s ‘Let’s Walk’ day

US President Donald Trump, pictured at Trump Turnberry in 2023, is expected to come to the UK for a state visit later this year (Picture: Andy Buchanan)

Why Scotland is the ideal venue for Donald Trump's state visit Tom Wood

US President Donald Trump will demand concessions from the UK in any trade deal between the two countries (Picture: Anna Moneymaker)

Starmer must not sell out farmers to get US trade deal Scotsman comment

Climate Change and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband speaks at the Future of Energy Security Summit, hosted by the International Energy Agency and UK Government in London (Picture: Justin Tallis)

Net-zero firms are growing nine times faster than the rest Chris Skidmore

The Scotsman Top Stories

Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

Nadine Dorries. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries