Stay tuned to @scotsman.com for all the best election coverage over the next couple of days 👇

'Intergrity', political vision and superheroes It’s the @scotsman.com’s election diary! www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

🚨 Alex Salmond believed someone within SNP HQ hired a private detective to spy on him, according to claims in a new book published today. Joanna Cherry said the former first minister even warned her that she might be under surveillance herself: www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Epigraph to William McIlvanney’s Walking Wounded.

'Absolutely not': Wes Streeting rules out second independence referendum www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

🏄‍♂️ To kick off @scotsman.com’s new series of leader interviews, I went surfing with @alex.scotlibdems.org.uk Or rather, he surfed, I fell in. A lot. You can watch the full video of that, plus my interview with him, on YouTube now: m.youtube.com/watch?v=I-1E...

Swinney: Ming Yang would not have been blocked if it was in England www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Sensitive Swinney, Sunshine on [Redacted] and Reform’s ad van woes It’s The Scotsman’s election diary! www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

SP26: You'll have had your MSP then? Amongst the many lists of candidates published this week, here's one list sitting MSPs don't want to be on: those at risk of losing. With an almost certainly record-breaking turnover in MSPs this year, find out who is most at risk of an electoral sacking.

NEW: John Swinney signals major shift in SNP's position on new oil and gas He told a Holyrood Sources event the war in Iran had changed the "dynamics" of the debate around developments such as Rosebank and Jackdaw: www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Had somehow missed the news about this new folk horror film festival in Leith. Sensational line up of films — and what a brilliant poster. fiendsinthefurrows.com

GPs urge next government to take drastic action on poverty @alistairkgrant.bsky.social covering RCGP Scotland survey findings- on the front page of the @scotsman.com www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

EXCL: Scottish Labour has plotted a route to put Anas Sarwar in Bute House. It involves Reform playing a part and Labour having the "moral mandate" to govern. It will also still need a big shift in the polls which hasn't looked like happening. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

In central Edinburgh tomorrow evening? Come to our hustings! 🚨 6pm at the Assembly Rooms - tickets free via Eventbrite www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

"He’s a f****** nuisance, and he’s ignorant, he’s so f****** ignorant about what’s going on in the world." My excl interview with Brian Cox and Nicole Ansari-Cox on Trump, Iran, independence, and the SNP." www.scotsman.com/news/intervi...

Saw The Land Before Time at ‘toddler cinema’. Pure nostalgia.

I know what you’re thinking: if only you could somehow relive the joy, the excitement, the sheer thrill of the first proper day of the Holyrood election campaign. Well, have I got a podcast for you… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1vLX... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Anas Sarwar rules out any coalitions, deals, or "stitch-ups" with Reform UK. "We are not going to touch Reform" www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Malcolm Offord has claimed he "instantly regretted" his homophobic joke after having had "a bit to drink". His only Reform MSP, Graham Simpson, has backed him to remain party leader in Scotland. John Swinney disagrees. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

SNP Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes has accused the Labour government of having "pulled the rug out from under Scotland’s renewables industry” by blocking the £1.5bn investment plans.

EXCLUSIVE: The UK Labour government has blocked Chinese firm Ming Yang's attempt to build a wind turbine factory in the Scottish Highlands that would have created hundreds of jobs. It is understood that national and cyber security fears could not be addressed. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

EXC: Granton Lighthouse to be transformed after securing £2m funding www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Holyrood's decision not to reform the law on assisted dying leaves us with the status quo - a kind of legal limbo which will add to the store of human suffering, but which is also inconsistent with the explanations given by the majority for opposing legislation. www.thenational.scot/politics/259...

Reform UK pledges to cut number of MSPs in Holyrood www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Sean Clerkin is protesting outside the Reform UK Scotland conference.

EXC: Alba threatens to call in police amid dispute with local office bearers: www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Today’s front page

Landmark assisted dying legislation has been rejected by MSPs following a historic and highly emotional vote in Holyrood. Full coverage on @scotsman.com’s website: www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

The leader of Reform UK in Scotland has questioned whether there are "too many" universities north of the border. Malcolm Offord said “every barman” in Glasgow and Edinburgh has a degree and yet the country is short of "really good technical jobs": www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

A former leader of the House of Lords has urged the SNP to reconsider its long-standing policy of refusing to take up seats in the upper chamber. Tory peer Lord Strathclyde said something is "missing" in the Lords due to the absence of Scottish nationalists: www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Nothing quite prepares you for the avalanche of damning details in this.

Want to grill representatives from all of Holyrood's political parties ahead of the election? Come along to the Scotland 2050 hustings at the Assembly Rooms on March 31, chaired by @scotsman.com Tickets are free: www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Cost of troubled Cairngorm railway may outweigh its benefits, MSPs warn www.scotsman.com/politics/cos...

Most of my job doesn't involve staring at a computer, it involves talking to people and reading books, and both of those, in different ways, tell me that we will have big problems if *30 per cent of working people in the UK* lose their jobs in the next 15 to 18 months.

If you love journalism and the inky, hard-bitten romance of newspapers, Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists is a total treat.

EXC: Tories pledge to ban new low emission zones in Scotland www.scotsman.com/politics/tor...

'Bring it on': Reform's Malcolm Offord rumoured to be plotting bid to take on Jackie Baillie www.scotsman.com/politics/bri...

🚨 New episode of The Steamie! We assess an extraordinary week for Anas Sarwar & Scottish Labour Plus, I talk to James Macintyre about his new biography of Gordon Brown Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1MKj... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I reviewed the new biography of Gordon Brown by James Macintyre, which is published today: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Sarwar open to campaigning with Starmer despite urging him to quit www.scotsman.com/politics/sar...

Wrote about the electoral contest on everyone’s lips… …that’s right, the extraordinary Ross and Cromarty by-election of February 1936! www.scotsman.com/politics/pol...

Wrote about the electoral contest on everyone’s lips… …that’s right, the extraordinary Ross and Cromarty by-election of February 1936! www.scotsman.com/politics/pol...

Former Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman dies aged 72 www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Wondering where the sunshine has gone? Spare a thought for northeast Scotland; Aberdeen Dyce hasn't recorded any sunshine since 21 January! This is provisionally the longest sunless period here since records began in 1957 ☁️

After my reporting of Fiona McQueen's "Disneyland" comments on @scotsman.com was raised at FMQs today, John Swinney has full confidence in her to continue as chair of the Scottish Police Authority. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.

Gordon Brown: I was always against Project Fear www.scotsman.com/news/politic...