Scotland

Bruised SNP gathers in Edinburgh as senior figure offers potential olive branch to Alex Salmond

Scottish Nationalist Party members meet for the first time after it was trounced by Labour in July’s UK election

Geography lessons in the aisles

Browsing the supermarket shelves in search of a taste of home

Labour eyes control of Scotland’s parliament after routing SNP in election

Scottish Labour under Anas Sarwar has completed a Lazarus-like recovery

Scotland refuse to contemplate another group stage exit

Scotland would almost certainly progress to the last 16 of Euro 2024 with a win. Defeat, however, would continue the Scottish trend of ­failure to reach the knock-out phase of finals

A woman walked in and a brawl started: A night watching the Euros in a Glasgow pub

Glasgow Letter: Scottish city’s boisterous reputation is enthusiastically fulfilled one crazy evening watching the Euros

‘People are hacked off at politics’: SNP and Labour in knife-edge battle across central Scotland

Labour is hoping to regain seats lost to the SNP, with Brexit and migration the main dividing lines

Euro Zone: Reporters left red-faced as Scotland fans turn the air blue

Liverpool player Dominik Szoboszlai looks on the birght side of not playing

Englishness and Britishness are not the same. That matters as nationalism resurges in the UK

Can a Labour government go far enough with constitutional reform to deflect renewed Scottish demands for independence?

Scotland aiming to burst confident Germany’s bubble

Euro 2024 opener: High expectation surrounding home side Germany in European Championship opener but Scotland boss Steve Clarke says ‘we respect everyone, fear no one’

Steve Clarke’s work with Scotland has the fans believing the class of 2024 can break the mould

Eyes of football world will be on Scotland as they take on Germany in opening game of Euro 2024

Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands: From pishpuddles to pee-the-beds

Humourless narrator is difficult to root for in this novel set in Fife, Scotland

Why is British PM Rishi Sunak calling a general election now and what will happen next?

Sunak granted permission to dissolve parliament from King Charles with campaigning to take place over coming weeks up to July 4th

Bambie Thug impresses the scholars with Ogham messaging

Ireland’s Eurovision entrant gets top marks for using ancient alphabet correctly

Kate Forbes appointed deputy first minister as SNP leader John Swinney appoints Scottish cabinet

Forbes had challenged Humza Yousaf for the SNP leadership last year but opted not to stand against Swinney

Scotland’s new first minister promises to reach out to opposition

John Swinney’s erstwhile SNP leadership rival Kate Forbes is expected to be brought back into the cabinet

A week of high drama in Scottish politics ends with the SNP’s disparate camps joining forces

John Swinney looks set to be crowned leader of the SNP and of Scotland, as Kate Forbes bides her time

Humza Yousaf tried to appear strong, but ended up looking weak

Scotland’s outgoing first minister, who announced on Monday he would quit, lacked political guile, his rivals say

Humza Yousaf to resign as Scotland’s first minister

SNP leader’s decision comes ahead of two no-confidence votes after he ended power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens

Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf will try to repair rift with Greens to save his job

Angry Scottish Greens threatening to back no-confidence motion in the SNP leader after he ended governing partnership with Green Party

Yousaf faces no-confidence vote as SNP’s powersharing deal with Greens collapses

First minister says SNP would govern ‘on our policy terms’ after ending power-sharing arrangement with Greens

Nicola Sturgeon’s husband charged with embezzlement of SNP funds

Peter Murrell was re-arrested on Thursday morning in political finance investigation

Former Scottish leader Sturgeon’s husband re-arrested in party finance investigation

Peter Murrell was taken into custody for questioning on Thursday, a year after his first arrest

Stadium anthems have become vehicles for protest and division

Maybe now is the time to hit pause rather than replay on a once well-respected custom of singing national anthems at sporting events

The deep problems facing Britain will continue to dog Labour

Weak central government that fails to deliver is making the nationalist case in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland stronger

Scotland’s neglected island communities: ‘London ignores us, Edinburgh hates us’

The stunning Outer Hebrides are threatened by depopulation and a ferries fiasco

Catfishing: How an Armagh man’s online blackmail of a 12-year-old girl led to her suicide

The former Ulster University computer science student at the centre of one of the world’s largest ‘catfishing’ investigations abused more than 60 child victims as far away as New Zealand and the US

The Granite City wants a solid future if the oil boom ends

Aberdeen’s future as the oil capital of Europe has become an election issue in Scotland

Irish BBC presenter Nick Sheridan dies aged 32 following short illness

Wexford journalist previously worked for RTÉ before moving to BBC Scotland in 2018

Clear by Carys Davis: A story of hope amid the barbarity of mass evictions on a fictional Scottish island

To say too much about the plot would risk the immense reading pleasure to be found within the carefully constructed story

Humza Yousaf ‘open’ to inquiry into police failings in case of serial rapist and killer

Iain Packer given 36-year sentence for murder of Emma Caldwell in 2005

Drinking wine the trick to surviving an overnight rail ‘sleeper’ service from Scotland to London

Nationalisation of Britain’s railways back on the agenda, but a good night’s sleep is not

Humza Yousaf faces questions over his political judgment in ministerial iPad affair

Scotland’s health minister Michael Matheson suddenly quit this week, three months after it emerged an £11,000 holiday roaming charge had been racked up on his taxpayer-funded iPad

Fractured Union. Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to Save the UK: far-seeing and compelling

Insightful analysis of uncertainty of United Kingdom’s future under the pressures of devolution, inequality, regional dissatisfaction and Brexit

How do you raise Irish children abroad? Bringing ‘the púca and children who were turned into swans’ to Belgium

Elaine McGoldrick writes how nursing in Ireland drove her to Scotland; and amid rainy summer days Laura Kennedy observes how Australians are tougher than the Irish

‘Influencing my decision to emigrate was the fact it was becoming increasingly difficult to manage 12-hour nursing shifts’

I feel there is a half of my heart in Scotland and half in Ireland, says Elaine McGoldrick

‘I love that in Dublin you can be your freest self. You can push society’s norms here’

New to the Parish: Scottish actor Colleen Keogh came to Ireland in 2019 from Canada

Murder inquiry launched after body of Donegal woman (61) found in flat in Scotland

Ann Coll, originally from Gaoth Dobhair, was found with serious injuries in Rutherglen on Friday

Scottish government loses legal challenge over gender identity reform

Holyrood fails in attempt to get London’s veto struck down

Devolved government in North may be restored within next few weeks, O’Neill believes

Sinn Féin vice-president and leader in Stormont is set to become North’s first nationalist First Minister when assembly returns

‘Rich, rich dram’: Rare 1926 whisky becomes most expensive bottle at £2.1 million

Macallan bottle had been expected to raise between £750,000 and £1.2 million at Sotheby’s auction in London

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