The Scottish Parliament has confirmed that it has withdrawn from LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme, joining a raft of organisations that have distanced themselves from the ...

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said there could be another Scottish independence referendum if there was a “majority of public support” in favour of holding one. He was asked about the matter during ...

A survey of former MSPs has found wide-ranging criticism of the way the Scottish Parliament operates and concerns about the quality of its politicians. Think tank IPPR Scotland carried out a series of ...

The Scottish Conservatives have challenged John Swinney to reveal public sector reform details to parliament. The first minister announced sweeping changes to public services in his Programme for ...

Have well-intentioned changes to who can apply for social housing heaped further pressure on a system already in crisis? There were groans across the chamber as Malcolm Offord, Reform’s leader in ...

Alyn Smith has been appointed as the new Minister for Innovation, Technology and Tertiary Education. The MSP succeeds Ben Macpherson, who resigned last week saying he wanted “more time to be able to ...

The Scottish Government’s “choices and delays” on efforts to tackle violence against women “have been fatal”, Jackie Baillie has told John Swinney. Speaking at the first FMQs back after summer recess, ...

Kevin Haggerty was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a child, but didn’t realise he had also developed heart problems until he had a heart attack aged 43. “I’d been at work – I was a security guard – ...

AI use by MPs has quadrupled in four years – but few admit to using it, according to a new study. Researchers used specially designed AI detectors to analyse motions presented at the UK Parliament.

There is “no reliable picture” of the scale of group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation in Scotland, a review has found. The review was ordered by the Scottish Government in December amidst ...

At SGN, we operate the gas network that delivers energy to 1.9 million customers across Scotland. While our day job is keeping that network safe and reliable, we’re also preparing for a lower-carbon ...

The verdict of the Supreme Court was unanimous and clear: the Scottish Government had lost. Speaking in London, his words beamed out across the internet, judge Lord Hodge said the SNP government’s ...