There are good reasons for Irish people to pay close attention to what’s happening in Scotland
Worldview: If the SNP recovers its strength, the union will weaken - with consequences for the island of Ireland
Worldview: If the SNP recovers its strength, the union will weaken - with consequences for the island of Ireland
Union supporters and those in favour of independence are almost ‘eeksie peeksie’ in polls but the Scottish National Party appears to have put its breakaway dream on ice for now
John Swinney gives first conference address to the party since taking over as leader in summer
Scottish Nationalist Party members meet for the first time after it was trounced by Labour in July’s UK election
Scottish Labour under Anas Sarwar has completed a Lazarus-like recovery
New leader names Rachel Reeves as Britain’s first female chancellor of the exchequer
Comments by ally of Rishi Sunak come as Sun newspaper tells readers to back Keir Starmer on Thursday
British prime minister’s Conservative Party widely expected to lose to opposition Keir Starmer’s Labour after 14 years in power
Ireland’s Eurovision entrant gets top marks for using ancient alphabet correctly
Forbes had challenged Humza Yousaf for the SNP leadership last year but opted not to stand against Swinney
John Swinney’s erstwhile SNP leadership rival Kate Forbes is expected to be brought back into the cabinet
Mr Swinney will now face a vote at Holyrood, where it is likely he will become the Scottish parliament’s nominated candidate to be the country’s seventh first minister
John Swinney looks set to be crowned leader of the SNP and of Scotland, as Kate Forbes bides her time
SNP veteran Swinney promises to bring his erstwhile young rival back into the heart of Scotland’s government
Scotland’s outgoing first minister, who announced on Monday he would quit, lacked political guile, his rivals say
SNP leader’s decision comes ahead of two no-confidence votes after he ended power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens
Angry Scottish Greens threatening to back no-confidence motion in the SNP leader after he ended governing partnership with Green Party
First minister says SNP would govern ‘on our policy terms’ after ending power-sharing arrangement with Greens
Peter Murrell was re-arrested on Thursday morning in political finance investigation
Humza Yousaf suggests an independent Scotland could be as much a competitor as potential partner for the Republic
Lindsay Hoyle changed parliamentary procedure to allow Labour amendment on Gaza debate, sidelining SNP’s original motion
Scotland’s health minister Michael Matheson suddenly quit this week, three months after it emerged an £11,000 holiday roaming charge had been racked up on his taxpayer-funded iPad
The SNP leader and Scotland’s first minister says he has chosen sides in the Gaza war and that side is ‘humanity’
Labour leader loses ten front benchers who voted for Scottish National Party ceasefire motion
The lowdown on British politics as it prepares for its most important general election campaign in decades
Aberdeen Letter: The youthful passion and fervour of times past was absent from party’s get-together this week
Scotland’s first minister condemns Hamas as ‘terrorists’ in his maiden SNP party conference speech
Scotland’s former first minister brushes off suggestion that she was upstaging Humza Yousaf
Party members agree new independence strategy in Aberdeen as it tries to revive bid to break away from the UK
A 20-point swing from SNP suggests party could win dozens of seats in a British general election
Forbes has retreated to the Highlands for now having ‘dodged a bullet’ with the SNP currently in crisis
Battle for Rutherglen and Hamilton, on the southern edge of Glasgow, will reveal much about Labour’s prospects for a Scottish revival that may hand Keir Starmer the keys to Number 10 Downing Street
Humza Yousaf’s plan would allow those born outside the country to be entitled to citizenship if one parent is a Scottish citizen
This is not a paradox. Taking unity seriously could be precisely why people are imagining a more realistic time-frame
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices