Susan Dalgety

Is social media a danger to democracy? As someone who spends far too much time on X/Twitter and whiles away her evenings watching Facebook reels about house renovations and charity shop fashion, I am probably not the most objective of observers.

The ‘weird’ Republican vice-presidential candidate needs to wise up to the ways of the older woman, writes Susan Dalgety.

Is Scotland’s university system broken? I ask this question after reading a jaw-dropping article featuring one of the sector’s leading figures.

I met my fellow Evening News columnist Angus Robertson last week at an event in the City Chambers to celebrate Scotland’s links with Malawi. Also there were the First Minister John Swinney, one of Edinburgh’s best-kent politicians Sarah Boyack MSP and my old colleague the Lord Provost, Councillor Robert Aldridge.

Is Scotland's university system broken? I ask this question after reading a jaw-dropping article featuring one of the sector's leading figures.

The Taliban may try to silence the voices of women and girls, but the international community must not be allowed to ignore them too

Scotland’s drug deaths epidemic shames us all. While the Scottish Government has to shoulder much of the blame with its fixation on harm reduction rather than rehabilitation and recovery, the problem is much deeper than simply money. This is a societal crisis.

It was my birthday yesterday. Not a particularly significant one, unless you consider reaching my ripe old age an achievement in itself, but I celebrated in style with a hot bubble bath and a glass of pink champagne.

Donald Trump and a coalition of right-wing Christians are attacking women’s rights in a way that echoes the extreme misogyny of the Taliban in Afghanistan

Primary school children are being encouraged to believe that they can change sex, while the Scottish Government is encouraging the donation of eggs, a potentially dangerous medical procedure, for IVF and surrogacy