Susan Dalgety

‘Look Up’ awareness campaign will help save children’s lives - Susan Dalgety

More than two-thirds of 11-16 year olds say that boys regularly make toxic comments about them at school

What has happened to make our girls so anxious about daily life? - Susan Dalget...

Generation Z think nothing of getting a breakfast burger delivered, while older folk and busy parents depend on regular supermarket deliveries, says Susan Dalgety

Weaning ourselves off home delivery is doomed to failure - Susan Dalgety

Launch of the Better Together campaign in 2012 with, left to right, Scottish Labour Leader, Johann Lamont MSP; Alistair Darling, leader of the cross party campaign; Scottish Conservative Leader Ruth Davidson MSP and Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader, Willie Rennie MSP

All I remember is fear and loathing from 2014's so-called ‘summer of love’ - Su...

Times change, but we are still bringing you the news - Susan Dalgety

An elderly couple enjoy a visit to the beach

A good health service is more than just getting seen in time at A&E - Susan Dalg...

Perhaps the Scottish Government could use Castlebrae as an example of best practice for the rest of Scotland

Perhaps the Scottish Government could use Castlebrae as an example of best pract...

Torch bearers creating the 'Be Together' symbol in Holyrood Park, following the annual torchlight procession through Edinburgh

Cheered by Hogmanay plans but won’t be partying like it’s 1999 - Susan Dalgety

In January, Public Health Scotland issued a warning about the increase of opioids found on the streets and in prisons (Picture: Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images)

We cannot sit back and wait for opioids to destroy a generation of lost boys and...

Apprenticeships can offer a rewarding career

Uni is not the only answer, apprenticeships deserve our support too - Susan Dalg...

Edinburgh International Festival Director Nicola Benedetti hosts a reception for the First Minister Minister Hamza Yousaf, at The Hub. Both pictured with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, President of Fringe Society.

Cancelling people you don’t agree with shuts down debate and destroys creativit...

Glenn Campbell - ever the professional journalist

Switch off your phone Glenn and focus on getting better, we need you! - Susan D...

Nicola Sturgeon promises her memoirs, to be published in 2025 by Pan MacMillan, will reveal her proudest moments

Surely Nicola Sturgeon’s memoirs promise more than whether she has bunions and w...

SNP MP Joanna Cherry is due to take part in an event at the Stand Comedy Club despite staff objections. (Picture: Russell Cheyne/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Joanna Cherry’s Fringe show warning highlights the sorry state of public debate ...

Nicola Benedetti at the Edinburgh International Festival programme launch (pic: Mihaela Bodlovic)

How about Scottish Government investing in something worthwhile? - Susan Dalgety

Heat pumps can be very expensive to run as they use a lot of electricity, and they cost several times more than an average boiler to buy, says Susan Dalgety (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Patrick Harvie’s heat pump plans are nothing more than hot air - Susan Dalgety
Patrick Harvie, co-leader of the Scottish Green party, evangelical cyclist and the government minister responsible for green zero carbon buildings, is about to make himself the most unpopular man in Scotland.

Sinead O'Connor, who shot to worldwide fame in the 1990s, has died at the age of 56

Rest in peace Sinead O’Connor, nothing compared 2 U - Susan Dalgety

I don’t mind politicians muscling in on the Fringe – some of them are funnier th...

Scottish swimmer David Wilkie celebrates after winning the 200m breaststroke during the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, July 1970

Maybe we should host the ‘better together’ Commonwealth Games - Susan Dalgety

Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street is looking sadly neglected, with shuttered and empty shops

How Glasgow is lagging behind Edinburgh in a tale of two cities - Susan Dalgety

Miranda Dickson's pink door in Edinburgh's Drummond Place has been repainted (Picture: Courtesy of Miranda Dickson/SWNS)

I see a pink door and I want it painted black - Susan Dalgety

Wimbledon about as exciting as watching paint dry, reckons Susan Dalgety

I’ll be delighted when last ball is served at Wimbledon - Susan Dalgety

TV presenter Fiona Phillips has announced that she has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease

We can and must do better as we approach the cusp of a dementia epidemic - Susan...

David Bowie performs his final concert as Ziggy Stardust at the Hammersmith Odeon, London. The concert later became known as the Retirement Gig

Ziggy and the Spiders playing live in the Capital, well, almost - Susan Dalgety

Interest in history, from Ancient Rome to Richard Nixon, is rampant (Picture: Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images)

History is the new rock and roll (and ‘Lennon and McCartney’ are on their way)

Celebrate the city’s greats and get your vote in for the top Edinburgher ever - ...

Dr Elsie Inglis and her team of female medical students helped persuade politicians that a civilised country looks after all its citizens, not just the rich

Why Dr Elsie Inglis is the best Edinburgher of all time – Susan Dalgety
After a ground-breaking study on poverty by Dr Elsie Inglis and two colleagues was published in 1902, legislation was introduced that heralded the beginning of the welfare state

Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt perform with The E Street Band in Amsterdam on Thursday last week (Picture: Paul Bergen/ANP/via Getty Images)

Harry Styles, Queen Bey and Lewis Capaldi are great, but there's only one Boss

Edinburgh is an expensive city for people on the minimum wage (Picture: Robert Ray)

Edinburgh is a city divided between rich and poor – Susan Dalgety

Evening News journalist John Gibson borrows actor Peter O'Toole's binoculars during the latter's visit to Edinburgh in August 1984 (Picture: Albert Jordan)

Ian Rankin, Elsie Inglis and John Gibson: city has its fair share of legends

Artificially intelligent computers and robots look set to take over many human jobs and tasks. And could they go further? (Picture: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images)

AI seems to have developed a life of its own. Will we regret it? – Susan Dalgety

Could the fireworks display that marks the end of Edinburgh International Festival be replaced by drones and video projections? (Picture: Danny Lawson/PA)

Could festival fireworks be replaced by Disney-style drones? – Susan Dalgety

By 2035, there will be more than 1.7 million people aged 60 and over in Scotland (Picture: Joe Giddens/PA)

Yousaf's biggest challenge will be finding a way to fix the social care crisis

While some shops have been making a fuss about King Charles's coronation, Scotland seems largely uninterested (Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

We're getting excited for the big day on May 6 (but not about some posh bloke)

Edinburgh's ‘Festival Village’ could soon be forced to close

Why is Edinburgh so po-faced? A city is not a museum! – Susan Dalgety

Tributes have been paid to sweet shop owner Thomas Hamilton, who died recently

Sweet shop owner understood the magic of his array of treats – Susan Dalgety

When Nicola Sturgeon resigned, she promised to ensure care-experienced young people 'grow up nurtured and loved' (Picture: Jane Barlow/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Will Sturgeon act over ‘unhomely’ children’s home? – Susan Dalgety

Starbucks at Edinburgh Airport saw its licensing application to serve alcohol early in the morning turned down (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

What is it about airports that makes people want to drink alcohol at all hours?

A man thought to be at risk of long Covid is given a lung capacity test (Picture: John Nguyen/PA Wire)

Scotland is not doing enough for long Covid sufferers – Susan Dalgety

Gail Porter will be the Grand Marshall of New York City's Tartan Day Parade (Picture: Joe Maher/Getty Images)

Gail Porter and Pulse of the Place will win hearts and minds in Big Apple

People around the world will mark International Women's Day Daniel on Wednesday (Picture: Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)

Political parties need to ditch sexist attitudes – Susan Dalgety

The family of David Bowie, pictured performing in 2004, has gifted his archives to the nation (Picture: Yui Mok/PA)

Bowie's archives will give a fascinating insight into his creative genius

Shopping on the internet took off during the Covid pandemic (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Online shopping is convenient, but it's putting many women out of work

Sexual entertainment degrades all women and girls (Picture: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Council's change of heart over strip club ban is deeply worrying – Susan Dalgety

A passenger waits to board a 'driverless' bus

Driverless buses may sound like the future, but I can't see them taking off

Giving up meat is easier than you might think, but cheese is a different matter for Susan Dalgety (Picture: Kirsty O'Connor/PA)

Edinburgh’s Plant Based Treaty will never make me give up cheese – Susan Dalgety

The current royal family can trace their ancestors back to the Anglo-Saxon King Athelstan, depicted ordering the Bible to be translated into old English (Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Harry's claims won't really damage 1000-year-old Royal Family – Susan Dalgety

A change to cold-weather payments could see people in Scotland receive less money (Picture: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

Sturgeon risks short-changing people on cold-weather payments to make a point

Madame Tussauds unveils their Ariana Grande figure at the 'instagrammable' EL&N cafe in London (Picture: Ian West/PA Wire)

EL&N cafe sounds perfect for Instagram. But is the food just a prop?

On becoming First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon asked to be judged on her track record on education (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

Sturgeon is failing on education because of her indy ambition – Susan Dalgety

The cycle lanes on Leith Walk don't work for cyclists or pedestrians

Pedestrians need a champion as city council messes up pavements – Susan Dalgety

The National Library of Scotland has warned its biggest newspaper archive could be lost forever without urgent repairs (Picture: National Library of Scotland/SWNS)

Come on Angus, historic newspaper archive must be saved – Susan Dalgety

Author Ian Rankin says he can't wait for the return of his Rebus creation to the screen - neither can Susan Dalgety. PIC: Neil Hanna

There is one person I'd like to play Rebus in his TV return - Susan Dalgety

The Scottish Poppy Appeal launched at Edinburgh Garden of Remembrance last week. Susan Dalgety has since lost her first poppy of 2022 - but will happily buy another in gratitude for the sacrifice of others. PIC: Lisa Ferguson/National World.

The least we can do is wear a poppy for the unseen and unheard - Susan Dalgety

Edinburgh can feel as remote from Holyrood as it does Westminster, with the city needing more powers to help it flourish, writes Susan Dalgety. PIC: CC/Alan Ford.

We need more powers to help our complex capital city flourish - Susan Dalgety