Almost three decades ago Labour set up the Scottish parliament, promising voters that ‘the Union will be strengthened and the ...

Editorial: Progressive nationalist parties now hold power in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast. That will be a challenge for the United Kingdom’s overcentralised state ...

Anas Sarwar’s humiliation in the Holyrood elections is the sign of a deeper trend: Labour’s long-running efforts to defend the Union and contain Scottish democracy have toxified the party.

We’re now in the last-gasp days of the election campaign so the parties are mainly telling us to vote for them to stop something terrible. The ...

Polling puts Reform, led in Scotland by former peer Malcolm Offord, neck and neck with Labour for second place ...

SCOTLAND’S ferries fiasco was branded the “biggest waste of money” in the history of devolution — with the scandal set to sail on for years to come. The now infamous £500million ship show has dogged ...

Three nationalist first ministers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales may not prove the triumph for nationalism they seem ...

The “whole existence of the Scottish Parliament” will be threatened if Reform UK takes power at Westminster, John Swinney has ...

Scotland, like the rest of the UK, is enduring a long period of faltering growth, high inflation and rising welfare bills, ...

John Swinney has fallen short of an overall majority at the Holyrood election but the SNP still emerged as by far the largest ...

The Scottish Labour leader led his party to its worst ever Holyrood election result, with 17 MSPs returned to the Scottish ...