Scottish news, politics, opinion, culture and features you can trust from Scotland's only pro-independence newspaper.

  • 1,018articles · 30d
  • 12+ min agolatest article
  • Aug 14, 2026earliest in window
  • 92%with images
  • 330avg words
articles per day
Categories
  • Politics 447
  • News 340
  • Politics2 297
  • Sensitive Subjects 166
  • Sports & Fitness 125
  • Sports 118
  • Crime & Law 116
  • Arts, Culture, Entertainment & Media 109

Please confirm you are human

This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.

A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.

Hold with a pointer, or hold Space or Enter.

News

The National
thenational.scot > news > 26545086.westminster-must-prepare-post-uk-future--john-swinney-says

Westminster 'must prepare for a post-UK future,' says John Swinney

6+ hour, 1+ min ago   (510+ words) THE momentum for constitutional change is “undeniable” and Westminster “must prepare for a post-UK future”, John Swinney has said ahead of meetings with the first ministers of Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland’s First Minister will speak to Plaid Cymru leader…...

The National
thenational.scot > politics > 26545598.dangerous-right-wing-populists-must-challenged-every-turn

Dangerous right-wing populists must be challenged at every turn

5+ hour, 41+ min ago   (575+ words) THEY call themselves Patriot Platform, but in truth, there’s nothing very patriotic about the black-clad mobs which invaded Dover and Portsmouth. A patriot, after all, is defined as somebody with an overweening love of their country, not people who seek…...

The National
thenational.scot > news > 26545290.filmmaker-fears-social-media-helping-rewrite-history-fascism

Director warns social media is rewriting fascism's history ahead of film screening

5+ hour, 41+ min ago   (882+ words) IT SCARES Catalan director Judith Colell that many people now appear to believe that Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and even the Nazis were “not so bad”. That’s one of the reasons she has made a film based on a little-known…...

The National
thenational.scot > news > 26545594.shattering-myth-scottish-exceptionalism-will-move-us-forward

Shattering the myth of Scottish exceptionalism will allow us to move forward

5+ hour, 41+ min ago   (813+ words) DENIAL is a hell of a drug. Yes, from an electoral point of view, Scotland had become very different from the rest of the UK. From that, though, came Scottish Exceptionalism, ­hanging like a perfumed cloud over towns, villages and…...

The National
thenational.scot > culture > 26544942.scottish-crime-writer-may-rinaldi-reveals-changed-life

10 things that changed my life with Scottish crime writer May Rinaldi

6+ hour, 1+ min ago   (1277+ words) SOME friends and I decided we wanted to get away for the summer between leaving school and starting university, so I stuck a pin in a map and found Nairn. We got jobs in the Royal Marine hotel, learned silver…...

The National
thenational.scot > news > 26545180.unionists-fume-donald-trump-triggers-row-united-ireland

Unionists fume as Donald Trump triggers row with backing for united Ireland

19+ hour, 21+ min ago   (671+ words) UNIONISTS have been left fuming after US president Donald Trump backed a united Ireland on a visit to Dublin on Saturday, saying it “may as well happen now”. Trump's comments have brought a stern rebuke from the Conservatives in the…...

The National
thenational.scot > news > 26544323.dont-let-cynicism-demobilise-movement-palestine

Labour’s Israel sanctions prove pressure work. Now we must push harder

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (891+ words) WHEN I heard that the Labour Government was imposing sanctions on Israel’s illegal settlements, my first response was cynicism. Israel is a state, after all, which has committed a livestreamed genocide. It wiped Gaza from the face of the earth,…...

The National
thenational.scot > news > 26539660.john-swinney-faces-backlash-ditching-world-leading-autism-bill

John Swinney faces backlash after ditching world-leading autism bill

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (717+ words) MORE than 1000 campaigners and MSPs have called on John Swinney to reconsider ditching world-leading legislation aimed at improving lives for those with autism. In his Programme for Government last week, the First Minister dropped the Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence…...

The National
thenational.scot > news > 26538028.green-party-launches-bid-regulate-tech-firms-ai

Greens launch bid to regulate AI over warning tech firms 'gambling with our lives"

3+ day, 4+ min ago   (592+ words) THE Green Party have launched a bid to regulate AI giants following warnings that tech firms are "gambling with our lives". It comes after industry insiders claimed that "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all…...

Google News
thenational.scot > news > 26535190.bbc-radio-4-host-accused-proper-jew-slur-ed-miliband

BBC Radio 4 host accused of??€??proper Jew??€?? slur against Ed Miliband

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (656+ words) THE BBC is under fire after one of the hosts of its flagship Radio 4 Today programme was accused of questioning whether Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is a “proper Jew”. The Labour minister appeared on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday morning to…...