Maggie Chapman

Back in December 2022, the vote for Gender Recognition Reform was one of the proudest moments of our Scottish Parliament. It followed three long days of debate - and many months of discussion - that brought out the best and the worst in our politics.

THE Paris Agreement was a critical moment in time when the world truly seemed to stop just for a second and listen. People looked like they were paying attention. After decades of warnings, the scientists and campaigners were finally being heard.

BRITISH Gas executives have been celebrating this week, with the company posting eye-watering profits of £969 million from just the past six months’ operations. This is a 900% increase at a time when so many of their customers have

I WILL be proud to speak at Edinburgh Pride tomorrow. It’s a day when the streets of our capital city will come alive with thousands uniting in a sea of joy, colour and protest.

IT must always give us cause to stop and think when the two main political parties in Westminster agree.

THIS coming Monday marks 20 years since Tony Blair and George W Bush began their disastrous intervention in Iraq.

IMAGINE being a nurse holding the still-warm hand of a vulnerable patient as they pass away in the middle of the night because no one else is around. Would you cry?

THE Covid pandemic turned our lives upside down. Many workers were furloughed. Many made the shift to working from home. Others lost their jobs completely. But many also kept our vital services going, day in, day out, often at personal risk and family burden.

LIZ Truss has been a terrible Prime Minister. Her time in office hasn’t just been an omnishambles, it’s been so much worse.

THE last two weeks have seen a lot of focus on the Queen’s life and that of her successor, but there has been very little discussion about the role and future of the institution of the monarchy itself.