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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar looks on following his defeat in the Holyrood election at Glasgow International Arena, May 8, 2026
Voices of Scotland / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS

The vote count gets underway in the 2026 Senedd elections at Ysgol Bro Teifi, in Ceredigion. Picture date: Friday May 8, 2026
Editorial / 8 May 2026
8 May 2026
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, SNP leader John Swinney and Reform UK Scotland leader Malcolm Offord during the Scottish party leaders Channel 4 news election debate in Glasgow. Picture date: Tuesday April 14, 2026.
Scottish Labour / 15 April 2026
15 April 2026
Scottish Green Party co-leaders Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay (left) at the launch of their manifesto for the upcoming Holyrood election, at Barras Art and Design in Glasgow, April 14, 2026
Holyrood Elections / 14 April 2026
14 April 2026
STUC general secretary Roz Foyer delivers a speech during the SNP annual conference at the Event Complex Aberdeen, October 11, 2025
Scotland / 30 March 2026
30 March 2026
Former racing greyhounds with their owners and members from Unbound the Greyhound Coalition outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh ahead of a bill being officially lodged to ban greyhound racing in Scotland, April 23, 2025
Animal Welfare / 18 March 2026
18 March 2026
The Scottish Parliament building, Holyrood, Edinburgh, December 10, 2025
Voices of Scotland / 3 March 2026
3 March 2026

Scotland’s deepening crises expose the human cost of political complacency — and the toll it is taking on working-class communities, says NEIL FINDLAY

Scottish National Party's Rona Mackay at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, December 10, 2025
Scotland / 31 December 2025
31 December 2025
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond is congratulated by new SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon following his speech at the annual party conference at Perth Concert Hall, Scotland, November 2014
Scotland / 13 August 2025
13 August 2025
Scottish Money
Scotland / 2 June 2025
2 June 2025
NUM Scottish President Mick McGahey (right) with NUM President Arthur Scargill in London, where they met with coal board chairman Ian MacGregor at the NCB's headquarters, March 6, 1984
Scotland / 29 May 2025
29 May 2025
Coins and Scottish bank notes
Britain / 25 February 2025
25 February 2025
Commuters walking past a ScotRail train at Edinburgh's Waver
Britain / 19 February 2025
19 February 2025
A general view of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinb
Britain / 24 January 2025
24 January 2025
A general view of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinb
Britain / 18 December 2024
18 December 2024
Extinction Rebellion Scotland activists outside the Scottish
Britain / 7 November 2024
7 November 2024
Public Finance Minister Ivan McKee
Britain / 1 November 2024
1 November 2024
HIGH DRAMA: (Right) Humza Yousaf, who has now resigned, (lef
Features / 2 May 2024
2 May 2024
As the former first minister of Scotland departs to write his pamphlet-length memoir of political achievement, STEPHEN LOW explores how it all went so wrong
The main chamber during a debate on a motion of no confidenc
Britain / 1 May 2024
1 May 2024
The Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, July 27, 201
Britain / 20 March 2024
20 March 2024
WHO CARES: Confusion reigns over plans for a national care s
Features / 27 February 2024
27 February 2024
What the SNP-Green administration is asking politicians to do by voting on the new care service legislation, without being clear on what it even is, totally undermines Holyrood, writes STEPHEN LOW
People take part in a Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Britain / 16 November 2023
16 November 2023
Members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and their supporter
Britain / 27 October 2022
27 October 2022
People carrying Trans rights banners take part in the Pride
Britain / 6 October 2022
6 October 2022
Britain / 22 September 2022
22 September 2022
Former footballer John Barnes
Men's Football / 11 July 2022
11 July 2022
The Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
Britain / 6 October 2021
6 October 2021
Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
Britain / 28 June 2021
28 June 2021
Oil platform Stena Spey amongst other rigs in the Cromarty F
Britain / 23 June 2021
23 June 2021
A survey of over 300 North Sea offshore staff found 93 per cent were in favour of introducing standardised training for working offshore
Caledonian Sleeper
Britain / 23 June 2021
23 June 2021
General secretary Roz Foyer has said the government must step in to ensure ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper staff are offered a fair resolution
Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh
Britain / 15 June 2021
15 June 2021
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar
Britain / 13 May 2021
13 May 2021
Scottish National Party MSP Ruth Maguire is pictured on scre
Britain / 13 May 2021
13 May 2021
Features / 7 May 2021
7 May 2021
by CONRAD LANDIN
STAYING FOCUSED: Mercedes Villalba on the campaign trail
Features / 4 May 2021
4 May 2021
Scottish Labour candidate MERCEDES VILLALBA talks to Niall Christie about the importance of grassroots working-class politics and connecting with people’s everyday lives
Features / 2 May 2021
2 May 2021
Niall Christie speaks to ROZA SALIH about how her candidacy could help push Scotland’s ruling party in a socialist direction
LEFT HIGH AND DRY: BiFab workers march in protest to the Sco
Interview / 29 April 2021
29 April 2021
MAGS HALL, Scottish Greens candidate for Cowdenbeath, tells Niall Christie about her political vision for the constituency
Britain / 23 April 2021
23 April 2021
The Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
STUC conference 2021 / 20 April 2021
20 April 2021
The demands included the need for a sustainable recovery from coronavirus, and a national care service
Britain / 20 April 2021
20 April 2021
Ballot papers are counted through the night after votes were
Features / 20 April 2021
20 April 2021
Any future vote on Scotland’s constitutional future must present more than just a Yes/No choice between independence and the status quo, argue NEIL FINDLAY and PAULINE BRYAN
Features / 19 April 2021
19 April 2021
They have kept everything from our schools to our roads open — so why is their current pay offer more like a slap rather than a clap, asks PAT RAFFERTY
First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party Nic
Britain / 15 April 2021
15 April 2021
Nicola Sturgeon outlined plans to significantly increase NHS spending and scrap dentist fees
The Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
Britain / 15 April 2021
15 April 2021
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar
Britain / 15 April 2021
15 April 2021
Scottish Green Party co-leaders Lorna Slater and Patrick Har
Britain / 14 April 2021
14 April 2021
The manifesto includes a jobs guarantee for all fossil fuel workers and wealth taxes on the country’s richest 10 per cent
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (left), Presiding Officer Ken
Britain / 8 April 2021
8 April 2021
STUC urges parties to look past ‘suffocating’ independence debate
Britain / 6 April 2021
6 April 2021
Voices of Scotland / 5 April 2021
5 April 2021
Ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections PAT RAFFERTY introduces the five demands of Unite’s manifesto for those that look after society’s most vulnerable
Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie on the campaig
Scottish Green Party Conference / 26 March 2021
26 March 2021
Britain / 24 February 2021
24 February 2021
The Scottish Parliament at Holyrood
Britain / 14 February 2021
14 February 2021
We can be confident that if the Tories were intent on protec
Features / 25 January 2021
25 January 2021
In the face of Tory machinations under the guise of a 'review,' the Scottish government and trade unions are opposing any downgrading of our employment protections, reports CHRIS STEPHENS MP
Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
Britain / 22 January 2021
22 January 2021
Britain / 20 January 2021
20 January 2021
VOICES OF SCOTLAND / 18 January 2021
18 January 2021
JOHN SINGER and ENAS MAGZOUB argue that putting forward working-class candidates committed to a national care service, rent controls and bringing key services under public ownership is the best way to rebuild the party
The Scottish Parliament at Holyrood
Britain / 3 January 2021
3 January 2021
Britain / 9 December 2020
9 December 2020
Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh
Britain / 9 December 2020
9 December 2020
Britain / 3 December 2020
3 December 2020
Britain / 3 December 2020
3 December 2020
Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
Britain / 2 December 2020
2 December 2020
Britain / 2 December 2020
2 December 2020
DEFENDING JOBS: Trade unionists and other campaigners stagin
Britain / 1 December 2020
1 December 2020
Members of Unite the union on a protest
Features / 23 November 2020
23 November 2020
Amid the mounting challenges one thing is now clear – pay is a health issue, says JAMIE CALDWELL
S4 pupils at St Columba's High School in Gourock, Inverclyde
Britain / 18 November 2020
18 November 2020
Former miners outside of the Scottish Parliament last month
Features / 18 November 2020
18 November 2020
Last month Holyrood announced it would formally pardon hundreds of those involved in the strike of 1984-85 – a decision that follows many years of campaigning. JIM PHILLIPS reports
A view of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
Britain / 16 November 2020
16 November 2020
Politicans warn Westminster's plan for Internal Market Bill is an ‘ideological’ attempt to remove power from Holyrood
Britain / 15 November 2020
15 November 2020
The Scottish Parliament at Holyrood
VOICES OF SCOTLAND / 12 October 2020
12 October 2020
Does Holyrood have the political will to address the funding problems facing local government, asks GORDON MUNRO
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during a Holyrood debate on '
Britain / 29 January 2020
29 January 2020
The Union flag, Saltire and the European Union flag fly alon
Britain / 8 January 2020
8 January 2020
Holyrood rejects the Withdrawal Agreement Bill by 92 to 29
The Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
Britain / 15 January 2019
15 January 2019
Pensioners gather outside the Scottish Parliament today
Britain / 27 September 2018
27 September 2018
Andriy Parubiy
Landin in Scotland / 16 June 2018
16 June 2018
CONRAD LANDIN asks why the Scottish Parliament unthinkingly oblige when Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh invited them to applaud Parubiy on Thursday morning?
YOUNG BLOOD: GMB Scotland branch secretary Rhea Wolfson with
Interview / 9 March 2018
9 March 2018
ALISTAIR CRAIG talks to Conrad Landin about Scottish Labour Young Socialists’ plan to put Labour back at the centre of domestic politics
Holyrood / 4 March 2018
4 March 2018
Scotland / 19 February 2018
19 February 2018
Voices of Scotland / 8 January 2018
8 January 2018
Fundamental political change at Holyrood and Westminster is needed to save local services, but a modest proposal from trade unions could help keep the wolf from the door in the meantime, says JOHN STEVENSON
Features / 16 November 2015
16 November 2015
The consensus in Holyrood against this attack on democracy can be used to our advantage, argues DAVE MOXHAM
Britain / 8 November 2015
8 November 2015
Sport / 1 June 2015
1 June 2015
MSP calls on Holyrood to cancel game
Features / 18 May 2015
18 May 2015
The government needs to get its facts straight – it’ll struggle to get its human rights-curbing scheme past Holyrood, writes BILL BENFIELD
Britain / 21 April 2015
21 April 2015
Britain / 5 February 2015
5 February 2015
Britain / 22 January 2015
22 January 2015
Unions and First Minister hit back at Westminster plan
Britain / 18 January 2015
18 January 2015
Equality and Human Rights Commission says lack of funding forces travellers to pull-in at the roadside
Britain / 15 December 2014
15 December 2014
Britain / 27 November 2014
27 November 2014
No-one Scottish impressed by Smith ommission