Rebecca McQuillan

Every public service is in a smouldering crisis. Everyone knows the push for independence is going nowhere in the foreseeable future. But instead of working together constructively to make stuff better for people, we have MSPs making the peripheral and currently irrelevant question of independence their red line in budget negotiations.

Rebecca McQuillan talks to Scottish climate experts and, whisper it, things may not be quite as bad as you think.

Nausea. Is it the weariness or the shock? Perhaps both. Donald Trump will be the 47th US president and we all have to live with it.

Labour are stumbling at Westminster, and that's a headache for Anas Sarwar's Scottish contingent, but can the SNP hold their newfound unity together?

Foreigners volunteering on US election campaigns are commonplace. It's not just Labour - there are Lib Dems campaigning for Harris too right now, including the leader of the Scottish party Alex Cole Hamilton.

Neil Mackinnon, who has died aged 54, was a former press officer for the Scottish Liberal Democrats and head of external affairs for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The Budget had better be good. An elaborate rescue package is required, not just for the country but for Keir Starmer.

A survey of 10,000 parents found that more than half wished they’d delayed giving their children smartphones for longer

Scotland is warming to the heat pump. Sales are improving, with 5,700 units put in this year so far, up a third on the same period last year. Collectively, they are turning power created by Scotland’s notorious cold wind into warm radiators and toasty hot baths.

It’s quite unusual for a Prime Minister to tell voters in such uncompromising terms they’re going to have to put up with things they don’t like. You might even call it brave.