THE BNP, buoyed by their leader's Question Time appearance, are taking to the streets of Glasgow to argue the rights of 'white British people' and to condemn immi

ONE year ago, Barack Obama had a mandate for change and the world in his hands. What does the US think of him now?

ONE of Scotland's most respected playwrights, Jo Clifford talks about the long, painful journey to becoming an 'out' transgendered woman

MANDATORY fortification of bread with folic acid would reduce the number of children born with spina bifida - but is mass medication safe or ethical, asks Dani Garavell

SUNDAYPrince Charles joined Second World War veterans to mark the restoration of the Powrie Brae memorial on the outskirts of Dundee, 50 years after the Queen Mother unvei

TO some, this easily mocked - or ignored - space that is neither city nor countryside is the centre of claustrophobic conformity, a byword for dullness. But for those who live

SHIRLEY Bassey has been so successful for so long that it's sometimes easy to overlook just how prodigious her achievements have been.

THERE will, sooner or later, be a referendum on Scotland's constitutional future, giving the people of this country the chance to choose independence and equality with oth

THE moment Nick Griffin opened his smirking mouth and asserted that if he were alive today Winston Churchill would join his party because "no other (one] would have hi

OVER many hundreds of years mankind has evolved subtle and intricate rituals to mark the transition young males must make from boyhood to maturity. Tribal peoples have complex

ThTHIS was the Church of England's Pearl Harbour. A bruised and dazed Archbishop Rowan Williams was pulled from the rubble of Henry VIII's bombed-out edifice to take

NEIL'S been knocked off his bike. It's serious." To be honest, that last bit didn't really need to be said because given that Kate's face had turned t

OVER in The Land Of The Free, there's a man in Virginia who has been charged with indecent exposure. So far, so what, I hear you ask. Quite right too. The decent and law

THE oddest thing about funerals is that the person it should matter to most is past caring. Their problems are over. It is relatives, friends and, occasionally, those who tur

NOT SO CIVIL SERVANTTHE Home Office is to complain to the Scottish Government's permanent secretary Sir John Elvidge over the increasingly politicised tone of civil se

THE scandal of holiday firms charging Scots holidaymakers hefty flight supplements to travel from their local airport has reached astonishing new levels, Scotland on Sunday ca

RE 'THE outsider and the war of words' (18 October). I welcome the appointment of Nick Barley as the new director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.