Andrew Tickell

Last week, The Herald shone a spotlight on access to justice in Scotland. Scots lawyers are – ironically – often terrible advocates for their…

‘DON’T be a snob!”. Remarkably, this was the formal advice given by the University of Edinburgh to its students this week

THE Scottish Tories are feeling chipper this week after winning four local government by-elections caused by a slate of councillors being elected to…

WE don’t talk a lot in Scottish politics about the power our judges wield. Direct attacks on the judiciary have become something of a hallmark of…

ARE we heading for an early Holyrood election? On Wednesday, Rachel Reeves will present her long-deferred Budget statement to the House of Commons…

I SOMETIMES wonder if the best way to bury a controversial story in Britain is to launch a full public inquiry into what happened...

JAMES Cleverly represents the constituency of Braintree. Write your own punchline. As the last “one nation” candidate crashed out of the Tory…

‘MARK my words. It’ll be Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands next.”

ONE sentence in the recent Scottish Fiscal Commission’s report on the state of Scotland’s finances has been singled out for repetition ...

THERE’S a famous exchange towards the end of the play A Man For All Seasons. The setting is Tutor England, circa 1530. Sir Thomas More is on trial…