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

As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR

Labour’s approach to Scotland reveals a long-running tension between rhetoric and reality, warns PAULINE BRYAN

The public recognise the corrosive influence of the rich over our democracy, argues MIKE COWLEY — it’s a shame the Labour Party doesn’t

Labour’s by-election defeat tells a story Scotland has known since 2008. A party that assumes loyalty while offering little more than managed decline will eventually discover that voters always have somewhere else to turn, says MATT KERR

Uninspiring politics, weak leaders and party infighting could leave Scottish voters out in the cold come May, warns LYNN HENDERSON

Current polling shows Scottish Labour faces a stark choice: break decisively with Westminster or continue its slide into irrelevance, warns VINCE MILLS

Fuelled by economic abandonment and a collapsing faith in politics, Farage’s party is transforming grievance into momentum north of the border, warns COLL McCAIL

As Scotland’s inept political class hold endless summits on topics ranging from Reform to seagulls, and management culture replaces political leadership, MATT KERR goes for a hike to take his mind off the unfinished, unaddressed and undone

Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER

In his Aw That column MATT KERR looks, with dejection, at the opportunities squandered in the 80 years since Victory in Europe

RUBY ALDEN GIBSON believes Scottish parliament has enough powers to curtail Westminster Labour’s savage attack on welfare

Delegates call for government intervention to save jobs at Grangemouth

As Reform UK threatens to capitalise on public anger, our Establishment politicians simply refuse to acknowledge their role in creating the very alienation that gives succour to Farage, writes CRAIG ANDERSON
 

'Genuine reform is desperately needed'