Dani Garavelli

Ukrainian women living in Scotland are learning vital skills to help reconstruct their war-torn homeland.

OUT vox-popping on the streets of Glasgow last week, I encountered little pre-election buzz. While the end of 14 years of Tory rule was welcomed, the atmosphere was subdued, with most people resigned to ongoing austerity and paring down of services under Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.

QUESTION: What is the difference between Natalie Elphicke MP, who defended her sex-offender husband and indulged in hateful rhetoric on refugees, and Diane Abbott MP, who suggested Irish people, Jews and travellers didn’t suffer from racism in the same way as black people? There are multiple correct answers.

The Scotland manager sits down with with The Herald's multi-award-winning columnist for the most revealing and detailed interview of his career.

IT WOULD make a niche Scottish parlour game: guess what “emergency” the SNP will declare next. If the criterion is crises that have peaked on their watch, then it’s a pretty large field. We’ve already ticked off “climate”, “drugs deaths” and, just last week, “housing”. How about an ambulance emergency, or a prisons emergency or a culture emergency? Or, wait, I’ve got it - a ferries emergency?

THAT Humza Yousaf messed up was a given. He admitted as much in his resignation speech when he said he had underestimated the degree of hurt his abrupt severing of the Bute House Agreement would cause the Greens.

MY sons were born travellers. That’s not a boast; it’s a fact. At home, I often struggled to get them breakfasted and out the door of a morning. After school, they’d squabble and trip each other up while I was making dinner. But put three small knapsacks on their backs, and three small caps on their three small heads, and - ta da! - we were transformed into (half of the) von Trapps ready to Climb Ev’ry Mountain.

ON THE day the Hate Crime legislation came into force, I was on Ben A’an. It was Easter Monday, so it was busier than usual, the steep paths to the summit thronged with committed trekkers, once-a-year jaunters, dog walkers, teenage boys, and dads bearing babies in backpacks.

Dani Garavelli writes about Kate Middleton and looks at how society reacted to the absence of the Princess from the public eye now that she has revealed her cancer diagnosis.

Despite being open by nature, and frequently plundering my own life for copy, I have never written about my experiences of the menopause. The reasons for this are myriad and complicated.