Ruth Wishart

TIME to come absolutely clean: I spent many years voting for Scottish Labour.

NEVER say never is a useful mantra for anyone writing about Scottish politics. Yet the suggestion that any post-2026 electoral impasse could be…

YOU might think that the homes of wealthy Americans going up in very expensive smoke would alert guys like incoming president Donald Trump to the…

OUR text for today comes courtesy of The Health Foundation which, having read and digested some 25 various commissions/reviews/committee reports on…

Is it a late attack of common sense? Or have we finally grown up? Whatever! The news that a Scottish republic would put on another bunch of polling…

WELL, Humza lasted longer than Liz Truss. (Not a high bar admittedly.) And longer than Henry McLeish whose resignation over “a muddle not a…

IF you’re looking for anti-women sentiments in Islam’s holy book you will search in vain. The new Iranian restrictions on women’s rights and…

NON-FESTIVE quiz: Do you know your missions from your milestones? Can you tell your promises from your pledges? Is there a difference between a…

OF all the tributes paid to John Prescott, perhaps the most acute came via Al Gore, former vice president of the USA ...

IT’S my understanding that some of the erstwhile SNP troops at Westminster were more than a little surprised to find themselves there nine years…