John Mclellan

Reining in welfare hand-outs, cutting the bill for free prescriptions, and means-testing free university tuition are all ways to find the necessary funds to reduce taxation in Scotland

John Swinney’s party conference speech was a restatement of tired old arguments that will have done little to win back middle-class supporters who abandoned the party at the general election

Great oaks and all that, but the success of the Edinburgh Palette arts and community organisations facilitator means it has outgrown its name.

Amidst the housing crisis, Edinburgh City Council is desperate to redevelop Seafield with a funky new beachfront district, and very exciting do new images of the proposed neighbourhood look indeed.

Being flightless and non-migratory, chickens have a habit of coming home to roost and those in SNP finance secretary Shona Robison’s fiscal update on Tuesday were so chunky she could have announced the reopening of Marshall’s famous Newbridge factory.

As the Scottish Conservatives’ leadership contest descends into bickering, the party needs to grow up and seize the chance to become a low-tax alternative to the high-tax SNP

I’m not quite old enough to receive a winter fuel allowance, and after Tuesday’s vote in the House of Commons I’m in the happy position that I probably won’t qualify for it when I am.

Things seem to be hotting up in Corstorphine in the scrap over the low traffic neighbourhood, which it turns out hasn’t lowered traffic at all.

Not that I was a Brexiteer, but a recent European Court of Justice ruling illustrates what campaigners have been arguing before 2016, that the EU restricts a government’s ability to compete.

Nationalists pinning their hopes on the young generation are turning a blind eye to evidence that, as people get older, they are more likely to support the Union