Catriona Stewart

In a general election campaign that has oftentimes presented scenarios that feel like a fever dream, the surreal headlines keep coming. ‘Sir Keir Starmer agrees with Sir Tony Blair,’ we read this week, ‘that a man has a penis and a woman has a vagina’. Newspaper articles focused on two Labour leaders in simpatico and

Opening his party’s manifesto launch in Edinburgh, Douglas Ross quickly segued to the heart of his general election pitch: SNP out.

South of the border, a Labour majority is a foregone conclusion. Yet in Scotland, in almost all 57 seats, contests are predicted to be tight. ‘Knife-edge,’ is the phrase heard on repeat, most recently from First Minister John Swinney. While the Scottish central belt has drawn intense interest – given polls have consistently suggested there will

Christopher Harkins met vulnerable women on dating apps, leaving ‘a trail of emotional devastation’

Christopher Harkins has been jailed for defrauding nine women as well as rape and assault. Police Scotland believe dozens more women fell victim to his predatory playbook

Signalling problems and slow automatic doors blamed for service taking an extra six minutes or more after £200m revamp

Of all the self-inflicted harm to have felled politicians and undermined governments, was there ever a more curious case than that of self-ID and the SNP? In so bullishly battling the cause of Gender Recognition Reform (GRR), that would have allowed for trans-identifying people to self-declare their new gender, the SNP suffered the largest backbench

Flawed data sharing between the UK and Scottish governments meant that thousands of people missed out on a newly devolved benefit

Complaints after the government’s HR software used birth names

Shona Robison, the finance minister, ordered the wide-ranging cuts to allow public sector pay deals to be struck