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This weekend’s SNP conference comes at an auspicious time for both the party and the wider independence movement

Joanna Cherry: There's so much to be positive about ahead of the SNP's conference
THERE can be no doubt that this weekend’s SNP conference takes place at an auspicious time both

SNP MPs outside Westminster in 1975. From left: George Reid, Gordon Wilson, Douglas Henderson, Margaret Ewing, Hamish Watt, Douglas Crawford and Andrew Welsh

comment Here's how the SNP became the party of ideological unity in Scotland

Liz Truss played to her party’s worst instinct

comment Tory Party conference was a festival of complacency and cruelty

Until Suella Braverman came along, it was hard to imagine a more pernicious and odious home secretary than Priti Patel

comment It was difficult to imagine a home secretary more odious than Priti Patel - until now

The latest polls have made grim reading for Douglas Ross

comment The REAL Scottish Politics: The polls show the writing is on the wall for the Tories

Using the pound, Scotland’s fate would be inextricably bound to that of England

comment Richard Murphy: The case for the Scottish pound is now overwhelming

The Belmont and Edinburgh Filmhouses have ceased trading with immediate effect

COMMENT Fears for Scotland's cinemas as Filmhouses close, with more than 100 jobs set to go

Douglas Ross is on a ship that has already sunk

SKETCH Kirsty Strickland: The Tories and the Titanic at First Minister's Questions

Liz Truss was surprisingly bouncy and confident during her speech

comment Lesley Riddoch: Truss has given Nicola Sturgeon a golden opportunity for the indy case

It is highly likely that Liz Truss's first leadership speech to the Conservative Party conference will prove to be her last

comment The REAL Scottish Politics: Liz Truss's keynote speech was woefully off-key

The Shaetlan variant of the Scots language will be promoted thanks to a 'groundbreaking' language plan

EXCLUSIVE 'Ground-breaking' language plan paves way for Scots variants to flourish

Suella Braverman's Rwanda policy goes against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

COMMENT Suella Braverman has truly picked up the dregs left over by Priti Patel

Jina (Mahsa) Amini's death has sparked protests in Iran, largely backed by women. Picture: David Parry

COMMENT Jina Amini: The woman who became a metaphor for Kurdish resistance

The Iranian regime has vowed to ‘crack down’ on protests in the wake of Mahsa Amini’s death

comment Alyn Smith: Iranian protesters need our support to prevail against authoritarianism

Only in Scotland does the mainstream media still attempt to ignore indy marches, putting a negative spin on any that they even bother to cover

comment Only in Scotland does the media suppress coverage of the indy cause

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s party has fractured

COMMENT Kevin McKenna: The bonhomie within the SNP is gone but they're still ahead of the rest

Liz Truss has watched on as her party implodes

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Lord Robert Reed is the president of the UK Supreme Court

COMMENT Joanna Cherry: Win or lose, Supreme Court indyref2 case has a key role to play

Therese Coffey sent the crowd to sleep

The Jouker Watch as the Health Secretary sends the Tory Party conference to sleep

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon speaking to the media. Photograph: PA

ANALYSIS Is the Scottish media ready for an independence referendum?

Having good relationships builds trust and can open people’s minds to the Yes message

comment The good conduct of supporters will be crucial to the success of the Yes campaign

The City of London is disconnected from the real economy of business and commerce

COMMENT Toxic Tory groupthink has to be driven out if we are to change the UK

In BBC thriller The Capture, a politician acting against the national interest is suspicious

COMMENT Shona Craven: The reality of Tory incompetence is now stranger than fiction

In Scotland, Kurdish people and the Kurdish community have been contributing to culture, art, and music

comment History has repeated itself as the Kurds have once again been betrayed

Douglas Ross has been cruelly exposed by his own party as a political lightweight

comment Wee Ginger Dug: Douglas Ross's latest U-turn exposes him as a complete irrelevance

Liz Truss on the first day of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham

COMMENT Conference speech now truly make or break for hapless Truss

Lennie Pennie and Alister Heather presented this year's Scots Language Awards

Research project to investigate 21st century Scots usage

The war in Ukraine has sparked fears that Putin could resort to using nuclear weapons

COMMENT Nuclear war is now a serious possibility – how can we stop it?

Nicola Sturgeon after addressing a Climate Action Week National School Assembly at St Albert's Primary School in Pollokshields, Glasgow

COMMENT Racist abuse of schoolchildren is new low for Scotland's political culture

The Royal Research Ship (RRS) Discovery in Dundee

FAREWELL Roxanne Sorooshian: Signing off after 30 years of discovery in journalism

Glasgow's Robert Cameron won £1m on the lottery thanks to the 'bonus ball' - but the term has come to mean something else in Scotland's biggest city

DIARY Kevin McKenna's Week: How enterprising Glaswegians are making an extra penny

'It is a sign of how extreme this Tory government is that it has effectively radicalised ornithology'

COMMENT Liz Truss, Brexit, and Tory Britain’s attack on nature itself

The population in areas such as Tarbert in Argyll and Bute has been falling for many years

COMMENT Why we must build our way to success - and how Scotland’s planners lost the plot

Mark Lawrenson left the BBC with a full-on howl, resentful at almost everything that the BBC has done to modernise

COMMENT Can anyone leave the BBC without slapping back at the corporation?

Liz Truss's Cabinet has done nothing but steer the UK into crisis

COMMENT With a failing UK descending still further into chaos, what should you do?

Concert by Dave Milligan and Karine Polwart was a ‘fesitval highlight’

REVIEW This Moray festival exemplifies the cultural health of the Highlands

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (right) and his UK party boss Keir Starmer

COMMENT Ruth Wishart: SNP must heed the lessons of Labour's spectacular fall from grace

Prime Minister Liz Truss is crashing the UK economy and it is the poor who will suffer most

COMMENT Andrew Tickell: Tories ditch pretence of levelling up in favour of blatant cruelty

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng may have sparked a reconfiguration

COMMENT Opinions shift ... but Scotland’s place in Europe is resonating

The Tory poll collapse over the last week has revealed a deep thirst for a return to societal balance

COMMENT Pat Kane: We cannot allow ourselves to be blinded by hate for our political rivals

Scots Language Awards night showcased best of Scottish talent

Liz Truss's Nasty Party are nosediving in the polls

COMMENT What comes next amid Tory implosion? – The REAL Scottish Politics

Steps need to be taken in Parliament to reverse some of the most disgustingly greedy and insane aspects of the Chancellor’s plans – and then we need a General Election to get rid of the Tories

COMMENT Joanna Cherry: This is the time to forge a new social and economic vision for Scotland

It is hard to overstate just how disastrous the first month of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s tenure has been

COMMENT Ross Greer: Tory chaos has wrecked the Union’s credibility

Gordon Gecko’s ‘Greed is good’ maxim could be engraved on the door of 10 Downing Street, so central is the idea to Truss’s government

COMMENT Michael Russell: Liz Truss’s Tories don’t care that greedy Gekko was the bad guy

Prime Minister Liz Truss was unable to defend her decisions when questioned by local radio stations yesterday

COMMENT Richard Walker: Time to get mad as hell and break free from Truss and her cronies

Kaye Adams would have given Liz Truss a far easier time of it

COMMENT Liz Truss will wish she had been on Call Kaye – The REAL Scottish Politics

'I never thought she and Kwasi Kwarteng would be as bad as it turns out they are intent on being'

comment Richard Murphy: This is the worst economic crisis of my lifetime - here's how we got here

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have become figures of worldwide derision

The Jouker Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng humiliated on world stage by The Economist

Protests against the Iranian regime come amid the rise of far-right governments across the world

COMMENT David Pratt: World on the brink as regimes teeter and far-right gains power in Europe

The Labour Party conference in Liverpool was delighted with Keir Starmer’s plans for a Great British Energy company

COMMENT Lesley Riddoch: SNP must prepare to react to the new reality – Labour in the ascendancy

Far from building up the UK economy, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng are tearing it down

COMMENT PM and Chancellor AWOL as Tories wreck economy - The REAL Scottish Politics

Roddy Dunlop KC was among those to weigh in

COMMENT Kevin McKenna: Mini budget has led to a repugnant Flight of the Chiels by Scotland’s rich

Not content with Northern Ireland, Liz Truss wants to break the law in the Middle East too

COMMENT Alyn Smith: Liz Truss looks set to inflame tensions in Middle East