A WEEK is a long time in politics, and the past few days have felt like a lifetime for the Scottish Greens, and indeed First Minister Humza Yousaf ...
HUMZA Yousaf said last week that putting your cross next to a Scottish Greens candidate at the upcoming Westminster election would be a “wasted” vote. It’s no surprise that the leader of a rival political party would say such a thing so as to encourage voters to vote for his party instead, but Yousaf couldn’t be more wrong.
TODAY will be the first day back at work for many readers after a long Easter weekend and doesn’t it feel good, having had proper time to rest and recuperate?
IT'S the question on everyone’s minds: when will the General Election take place? Will the Tories cut their losses and call it before yet another scandal can happen, or will they hold on to power for as long as possible, inflicting as much damage as they can before they go?
TODAY’S issue of The National is historic – the first Scottish newspaper to be produced and contributed to exclusively by women in my lifetime. And what an honour it is to be a part of it.
TOMORROW at 1pm, I’ll be joining students from across Scotland, as well as politicians, trade unionists and others, outside the Scottish Parliament to rally for our education and call for a reversal of the devastating cuts to tertiary education planned in the Scottish Budget for 2024-25.
"PATRICK Harvie vs The United Forces of Conservatism [popcorn bucket emoji]”, tweeted Mark Ruskell MSP in advance of last Thursday’s episode of BBC Question Time.
I SURELY can’t be the only one pretty bored and depressed by the state of our politics just now.
Irreparable damage was done to the lives of not only the generation of queer people who lived under Section 28, but to generations since.
IT’S the last day of 2023, and I doubt I’m the only person who will be glad to see the back of it.
