Every year the team at The National creates a list of our cultural picks of the year - music, film, TV, literature and more This year's list is fab and showcases plenty Scottish talent. Lynne Ramsay! Corto.alto! Kai Reesu! How lucky are we to be home to these brilliant artists!

A charity single in support of Palestine has topped the UK charts and become the best selling download of Christmas week 👇

"The King's message tops Christmas Day TV ratings," the BBC's news headline read breathlessly today. But behind the glossy figures, there's a story the corporation is unwilling to tell ✍️ www.thenational.scot/news/2...

NEW: Barclays, a key target of pro-Palestine activism due to its financial ties to weapons firms, pressed the Scottish Government to crack down on Palestine Action before the group was proscribed www.thenational.scot/news/2...

EXCLUSIVE: Council bosses have ordered a review after £20,000 was awarded to a future Tory councillor to fund a renovation on a property she rented out as a holiday let

EXCLUSIVE: David Lammy “got shirty” with family members of Britons killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, it has been claimed

SPECIAL REPORT: Dispatch from The Ferret in the West Bank as children face violence and fear in Bethlehem over Christmas 👇 Images: Valerio Muscella

A Scottish Labour MSP will quit Holyrood after details of her friendship with a convicted sex offender were revealed

BREAKING: A man has been arrested at a pro-Palestine march in Glasgow city centre amid tense scenes with police officers. An eyewitness said he was holding a sign that said: "I support Palestine Action hunger strikers"

Why Fifa's World Cup pricing is a 'slap in the face' for Scotland fans

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Fears grow for hunger strikers

Scottish Labour's headquarters has been targeted by protesters amid growing concern for prisoners on hunger strike

A very happy First Minister with a framed copy of our front page celebrating Scotland's historic World Cup qualification ⚽️🎅

🚨BREAKING: A doctor has been arrested at HMP Bronzefield as protesters call for medical aid for hunger strikers linked to Palestine Action The reasons for the arrest of Dr Ayo Moiett are currently unknown

🚨Live updates as protesters demand an ambulance is sent to HMP Bronzefield as Qesser Zuhrah is on her 46th day of hunger strike MP Zarah Sultana says she won't leave until medical help arrives www.thenational.scot/news/2570490...

NEW: Protesters have vowed not to leave a prison's gates until a hunger striker alleged to be near death receives medical aid Qesser Zuhrah is on her 46th day of hunger strike inside HMP Bronzefield. An IRA hunger striker in 1981 died on the 46th day 👇

Tomorrow's front page 📰 MPs laugh as meeting with families of hunger strikers is rejected

NEW: The number of homes lying empty in Scotland for over a year has risen to more than 32,000, the latest figures have shown Map 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

MPs at Westminster laughed as a Labour Minister rejected a meeting with the families and legal teams of Palestine Action prisoners who are currently on hunger strike 👇

EXCLUSIVE: Zack Polanski has said it is 'irresponsible' mainstream broadcasters are not reflecting the Greens' spike in popularity after a study exposed BBC and ITV’s limited coverage of the party 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

NEW: One man has been charged after a group of 'ultra' Scottish football fans posed for a photograph while performing Nazi salutes

🚨David McLennan is Reform UK's first elected councillor in Scotland. He won a by-election in Whitburn last week. He claims to be a retired police officer, but David actually left the force after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, we reveal tonight.

If I were Nigel Farage and had come up to Falkirk to announce our amazing new defection, and days later he went on Question Time and gave one of the worst, most out-of-touch contributions ever seen, I'd be encouraging him to re-defect to the Tories lmao www.thenational.scot/sport/256926...

NEW: The editor of The Times in Scotland has been arrested and charged over 'indecent communications' David McCann has been suspended from his role amid a 'criminal investigation', News UK said

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

EXCLUSIVE: Seven weeks ago, Plaid Cymru shook the world of UK politics in a way they hadn’t before, storming to victory in a seat Labour had held for a century and collecting more votes there than Keir Starmer’s party and Reform UK combined

Amu Gib is one of the Palestine Action-affiliated prisoners on hunger strike. Today we are publishing an extract from their prison diary which covers the initial days of their hunger strike.

Almost half of all journalists killed over the last year were killed in Israeli army strikes across the Gaza Strip, according to a new report

Very grateful to Amu Gib, one of the hunger strikers who hasn't eaten for 39 days, for sharing this diary entry about their experience. In it, Amu talks about what it has been like in prison and what motivated them to take this action. www.thenational.scot/news/2568833...

Five of the hunger strikers linked to Palestine Action are now in hospital, it emerged tonight www.thenational.scot/news/2568867...

NEW: Independence support in the lead as Labour keep losing support in new Ipsos polling Meanwhile the Greens and Reform are tied on the list on 17% each - will the Scottish media start to better reflect that? Don't bet on it www.thenational.scot/news/2568720...

Excellent journalism from my colleague Xander Elliards, looking at the Sandie Peggie verdict and which parts of haven't received much media attention. From Peggie harassing Dr Upton, to racist jokes and her evidence being deemed "not credible", there is a LOT. www.thenational.scot/news/2568550...

NEW: The UK Government is in 'moral retreat,' Amnesty International has said, after Keir Starmer urged Europe’s leaders to rehash how a major human rights treaty is interpreted in law Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

A former SNP councillor has fully defected to Reform UK 👇

Harassment, 'untruthful' evidence, and 'unusual' legal questions. Our reporter Xander Elliards looks at nine points from the Sandie Peggie ruling that the rest of the media has left out

A privilege to publish great writing from Peter Oborne today on his recent visit to Sudan and Britain's role in the atrocities there via the UAE "Britain must place common humanity ahead of selfish commercial interests" ✍️ www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

You could have been forgiven for thinking that complicity in one genocide was more than enough for UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. If so, you would be wrong, writes Peter Oborne ✍️ Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Reform switch peer racks up expenses of £34k

Tomorrow's Sunday National 📰 'It's cash for access': Elite donors fund Nigel Farage

NEW: A Scottish Labour MSP has resigned from a party role over her friendship with a convicted sex offender Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

BREAKING: Scotland have drawn Brazil, Morocco and Haiti in the 2026 World Cup

Once again, a Scottish newspaper takes a stand, refusing to follow the mainstream media mob in perpetuating the great fiction that is the Gaza “ceasefire”. The @scotnational.bsky.social puts their peers to shame.

'A ceasefire in name only': On the front page of The National we publish a full timeline of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza since a 'ceasefire' was agreed

Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰 'A ceasefire in name only': We publish a timeline of the ongoing violence in Gaza since a 'ceasefire' was agreed – as Benjamin Netanyahu's brutal, apartheid regime's genocide continues to claim lives

This is a brilliant interview with young refugee Motaz Amer from Glasgow - responding to Reform attacks on bilingualism in the city. "We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division" www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...

This is a brilliant interview with young refugee Motaz Amer from Glasgow - responding to Reform attacks on bilingualism in the city. "We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division" www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...

John Swinney has responded to Nigel Farage's attack on Glasgow schoolchildren, calling it 'quite simply racist'

BREAKING: Shipyard campaigners have blasted the 'very selfish' Chancellor Rachel Reeves for using the Inchgreen dry dock site to 'promote the Labour Party' Inchgreen Port activists tried to thank Reeves – but weren't allowed to speak to her during her visit

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Nigel Farage attacks Glasgow pupils for being bilingual ... but is fine with his own children all speaking 'perfect German'

EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish Tory councillor has admitted taking £20k of public cash from an 'empty homes' fund to do up a house she rented out as a holiday let