Two weeks ago, school pupils in Scotland received their exam results. For some this will mean moving on to university or college, others will be staying on at school and some will be entering the workplace, perhaps for the first time.
Project Fear has become Project Reality when it comes to Brexit Britain rather than independent Scotland – as the Operation Yellowhammer revelations prove, says Angus Robertson
VOTERS apparently like politicians working together across party lines. The noise of elected representatives point-scoring while a crisis rages regularly prompts complaints that everyone should be co-operating for the common good.
Someone reaching retirement age now can expect to live almost another two decades, says Brian Sloan, so let’s make Scotland the best place to grow older
WITH Lonely Planet putting the Edinburgh Festival at top ranking, over-tourism supporters are feeling victorious. Edinburgh’s World Heritage and the Cockburn Association (plus Pete Irvine and me) remain opposed to the floods of folk.
I’ve been having a clear-out of clothes whilst trying to accept that what Oryn is quickly growing out of won’t be getting used for a baby No 3, writes Hayley Matthews.
Susan Morrison is among the walking wounded injured after a fall on Edinburgh’s streets, which she says have become littered with anti-personnel devices disguised as flagstones.
Amid all the gloom about the UK economy, there are some encouraging signs, but Edinburgh needs to address long-term problems facing Princes Street, writes John McLellan.
The proposed ‘Almond Chord’ rail line would link the moribund Edinburgh Gateway station with the main Edinburgh-Glasgow line beyond Winchburgh, writes John McLellan.
The Edinburgh Festival makes August the “most wonderful time of the year” in this city, writes Ian Murray, as he remembers Joan Baez’s praise for Princes Street Gardens as a concert venue.
