Ruth Wishart

DO you know, I think she got it wrong. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, that is. When she banned Kanye West from coming to the UK, saying it was…

YOU will not be surprised to learn that the four new Dreadnought submarines being built to replace Trident have a £10 billion contingency fund

THE fog finally lifts and the shape of tomorrow’s Scotland looms. I don’t know if the SNP’s John Swinney ever believed his party would gain a…

WES Streeting, Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer, aka Dr No – they could not be more irrelevant to Scotland’s future...

ONE commentator noted in the wake of Tony Blair’s lengthy “encyclical” last week that the former PM had met more presidents than voters since…

TICKETS duly arrived for all three Scotland matches back in 1998. Joy unconfined? Not exactly. We had thought “nae chance for the Brazil match”.

FINALLY, with a little help from their Holyrood friends, the SNP found the right solution to the Peter Murrell question.

Not to rain on the Tory parade, but if ever a by-election had a very specific set of arguments, it was surely Aberdeen South

These truths we hold to be self-evident: Andy Burnham could use a map. One that proves to him that Dundee is not that far distant from our Edinburgh…

SO the electorate is so scunnered with politics – even in Scotland – that some of them are minded to let the “other lot” have a go. Time,…