NEW: Amnesty International have removed a report which branded JK Rowling’s sexual abuse support centre as 'anti-rights' 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

We need cold-headed analysis and targeted measures to reduce inequality and deliver economic justice, and a wealth tax is a very poor way to achieve that outcome, writes Professor Richard Murphy ✍️ 🔗 www.thenational.scot/commen...

Join @agcreports.bsky.social and @jameslwalker.bsky.social as they discuss Thomas Kerr, Ann Widdecombe and the Yes Scotland row on today’s National Podcast 👇 youtube.com/live/VJmOV5n...

BREAKING: Counter terror police are now leading the investigation into the death of Ann Widdecombe It comes after 'new information and evidence have come to light'

NEW: The UK Government is set to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps 🚨

A new CalMac ferry has left its second period in dry dock 'ahead of schedule' 🛳️

Part of a major road in Glasgow city centre has been shut for the rest of the week after a manhole chamber collapsed

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is poised to approve development of the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea – but not the Rosebank oil field, according to reports 👇 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Reform MSP Thomas Kerr has addressed recent anti-immigration disorder in Glasgow, which saw protests target an 'innocent member of the public'

Peter Murrell called the shots behind the official Yes Scotland campaign and its cash, an insider has claimed 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

People in Scotland have been urged to check now if they need to pay any tax for the 2025-26 year ahead of a key deadline

Andy Burnham has been urged to scrap Labour's 'reckless' migration plans, with the SNP warning they are an imitation of 'Nigel Farage's toxic agenda' 👇 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

A replica of a 17th-century Spanish galleon is set to dock in Scotland next month ⚓

NEW: Glasgow Central Station is on track to fully re-open this week following the devastating Union Street fire 🚄

A popular Glasgow city centre restaurant has announced it will shut its doors for good after 13 years

More than 2700 people died from heat-related causes during May and June’s record hot spells in England and Wales, experts have estimated

NEW: Nigel Farage is facing criticism after he speculated over the death of former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe amid an ongoing police murder investigation 👇 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

The independence movement is going round in circles and getting nowhere fast. Some might say we are 'lost' but to become lost you have to have set off on some direction in the first place, writes Jim Osborne ✍️ 🔗 www.thenational.scot/politi...

NEW: Andy Burnham has been urged to scrap Labour's 'reckless' migration plans, with the SNP warning they are an imitation of 'Nigel Farage's toxic agenda' 🥀 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

A body has been found in the search for a hillwalker who went missing in Aberdeenshire 🚨

Supporters of Scottish independence who are asking Unionists for a referendum, or to show them the route to leaving the UK and becoming independent, need to wake up. Unionists will not help us and why would they? Angus MacNeil ✍️ 🔗 www.thenational.scot/politi...

The UK Government has been accused of 'mishandling' Scotland's energy resources as concerns are voiced that limited infrastructure plans could shake confidence in the sector 👀

The University of Aberdeen is reviewing comments made by a staff member who said she hoped former MP Ann Widdecombe suffered a 'painful death' 👇

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Labour blamed as £96bn renewables investment 'at risk'

Living elsewhere does not erase all emotional attachments to home, but choosing tax exile surely ought to have political consequences, argues Andrew Tickell ✍️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...

NEW: Anti-racism campaigners will hold a rally in Glasgow on July 25 to counter a meeting of the far-right group 'Unite the Clans' 🚨

If the SNP under Swinney (or Flynn) at Holyrood and Labour under Burnham at Westminster share roughly the same political perspective, their commonality will stand out more than anything else, writes Professor Gregor Gall ✍️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...

Investment into Scotland's renewable sector could be at risk as plans set to be considered by Westminster could bypass grid upgrades near key offshore wind projects, it is understood 👇

Ageing Scottish ferries could soon be sailing in the Mediterranean rather than being sent to be decommissioned as CalMac bosses court buyers for the vessels 👇

Andy Burnham seeks to stress his collegiate relationship with the devolved governments, but there are concerns he will adopt the 'muscular Unionism' of his predecessors 👇

The University of Aberdeen has released a statement after a staff member said she hoped former MP Ann Widdecombe suffered a 'painful death'

EXCLUSIVE: Conflict is brewing on a Scottish island that could soon host the largest salmon farm in the country 👇

Written by acclaimed Scottish author and poet Bobby Motherwell, a 'declaration for an independent Scotland' centres on 'the right to determine our own future through free and democratic will' 👇 Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...

The Ministry of Defence has been criticised for sharing England football 'propaganda' during the team's World Cup campaign 👇

What Sudan is experiencing, they say, is not merely a surge in wartime drug ­trafficking; instead it is becoming the ­primary production and ­trafficking ­frontier of a post-Syria captagon ­economy, David Pratt explains in a special report ✍️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...

7 DAYS: 10 things that changed my life with comedian Phil Nichol 🗣️

Of course the good people of Clacton might just take a closer look at their ever-absent MP and chuck him out. I will not be among the mourners, writes Ruth Wishart ✍️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...

REVEALED: Scotland's NHS boards have recorded more than 5000 data breaches over the past four years, findings from The Ferret show👇

The SNP have entered a period of soul-searching after their defeat in Aberdeen, but are they right to shift their stance on oil and gas – or just moving to the right? Special report by Hamish Morrison 👇 Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

LATEST: A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of former MP Ann Widdecombe 🚨

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Celtic Alliance call on more powers from Andy Burnham

EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish Parliament survey has exposed a wider problem with collecting data on the basis of biological sex and could undermine 'decades worth' of work on women’s representation, an expert has said 🗣️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

McGill’s, which is owned by billionaire brothers James and Sandy Easdale, have taken legal action against the Scottish Government after being rejected for zero-emission bus funding 🚨 Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

A man has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault at a Scottish music festival 🚨

Ann Widdecombe was attacked 24 hours before her body was found, the police understand 🚨

Veteran TV presenter Dermot Murnaghan has died, aged 68

It’s not that the serious task of indy means we must oppose the likes of Count Binface. It’s more that we’ve really lost something if we indulge in such elemental derision for representative democracy, writes Pat Kane ✍️

Six people, including three children, have been taken to hospital following a crash on the M8 on Saturday morning 🚨

Cuba has faced an island-wide blackout for the second time this week starting on Friday as the US blockade continues

England striker Harry Kane has drawn criticism after revealing he played golf with US president Donald Trump, a moment he described as a 'surreal experience'