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A car ablaze during demonstrations in Paris at the weekend

We should learn from the French rather than follow in their footsteps Paul Wilson

Experts worry that artificial intelligence is blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, handing cybercriminals a cheap and effective technology to exploit. Picture: Chris Delmas

That desperate call from your daughter may have been AI cybercriminal Ronald Hepburn

People protest outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero in London over the UK government's decision to approve the Jackdaw gas field. Picture: Brook Mitchell

Why Labour's Jackdaw gas field decision is not climate vandalism Scotsman comment

The more electric cars in the UK, the lower the demand for petrol, and therefore the price, should be. Picture: Adrian Dennis

Why are drivers being paid £7.6 billion to buy petrol cars? Matt Galvin

Labour's approval of the Jackdaw gas field is a welcome step, but the North Sea energy industry needs John Healey and Andy Burnham to take a few more. Picture: Ian Forsyth

After Jackdaw approval, Labour must now seize £50bn North Sea prize David Whitehouse

The closure of the Grangemouth oil refinery was a blow to the economy, but new opportunities are emerging. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

Why an industrial renaissance is within Scotland's grasp Professor Simon Best

John Healey’s first Budget will be a key indication of the Burnham premiership’s direction (Picture: Betty Laura Zapata/PA Wire)

John Healey needs to find some carrots for housing sector

Debate Night, hosted by Stephen Jardine, is moving to BBC One Scotland and will also be available online. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

Why closure of BBC Scotland channel was sad but inevitable Stephen Jardine

The Beyond the Startup podcast will focus on how Scotland can build more globally successful tech companies (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

A podcast to match the ambition of our subjects

The Port of Aberdeen was transformed by the oil and gas industry. Now the potential to service floating offshore windfarms represents a substantial opportunity but only if the UK government makes the right choices

How UK energy plan could put thousands of North Sea jobs at risk Bob Sanguinetti

Nearly half of the deaths from Covid in Scotland happened in care homes. Picture: Hugh Hastings

Covid Inquiry's 'painful' finding about care homes should shock us all Scotsman comment

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is arguably the individual most responsible for Brexit, but that's not the worst thing he has done, says Ian Johnston. Picture: Carl Court

How Farage is doubling-down on one of the worst things he's ever done Ian Johnston

Andy Burnham speaks to a student during a visit to New College Lanarkshire's Motherwell Campus ahead of a speech focusing on the forming of closer ties with the Scottish government. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

Why SNP needs to stop hoarding power and give it to the people Jackie Baillie

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch told ministers the UK needed to 'live within our means' during a pre-Budget speech at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London. Picture: Alishia Abodunde

Kemi Badenoch reminds Gen Z what politics is supposed to be about Scotsman comment

Clootie dumpling

How new technology is saving old recipes

Inventor Sir James Dyson, founder of Dyson, takes to the stage in Paris last month to unveil the new Dyson CameraJet toothbrush. Picture: Doug Peters Media Assignments

Scotland must not get left behind as new education revolution looms Scotsman comment

Not all children have loving parents who will look after them and ensure they have a decent start in life. Picture: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive

Here's the horror show that ITV's 7 Up could have been Karyn McCluskey

John Swinney in the driver's seat of a First Bus at a trade stand at the SNP party conference in Aberdeen. Picture: Paul Reid

SNP's vision of Scotland is based on bad history as new book reveals Brian Monteith

In the garden at Fair Isle Primary School

Looking to 'get away from it all'? Why Fair Isle could be for you Scotsman comment

Author JK Rowling

JK Rowling, Rod Liddle and the complex nature of 'legacy' Jenny Lindsay

Suffragette leader Sylvia Pankhurst, seen in 1921 shortly after she had been released from prison, is toasted at a celebration breakfast in East London. Picture: Topical Press Agency

A century on, why Pankhurst's fight for women's rights is not over Christine Jardine

Adrian Murphy, CEO of Murphy Wealth

Chancellor right to rule out changes to capital gains tax

Thomas Mitchell is a Partner, RTA LAW LLP (Picture: David Ho & Sandie Knudsen)

Still a long way to go on motorcycling fatalities

Stuart Clubb is a partner at Shoosmiths Scotland specialising in insolvency and restructuring.

With insolvency cases, the devil is in the detail

Leaders may find themselves implementing outcomes they trust but cannot fully explain (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

The AI accountabilty gap is a real risk for organisations

All smiles as Donald Trump greets Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, ahead of a meeting last year. Picture: Andrew Harnik

Europe must try to make Trump's favours for Putin a US election issue Scotsman comment

Euan McColm's record collection cull brought back memories but it turned out parting with much of it was not such a sorrow. Picture: Mirko Popadic

The vinyl reckoning for Euan McColm

Buildings deluged in sludge in Devighat in Nepal's Nuwakot district after flash floods hit the area in August. More than 1,400 bodies have been found and thousands more are still missing. Picture: Prabin Ranabhat

How we can beat climate change despite rogue states blocking progress Professor Frank Biermann

Andy Burnham delivers a speech focusing on forming closer ties with the Scottish government at New College Lanarkshire's Motherwell Campus. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

SNP must start taking Burnham's offers to work together more seriously Scotsman comment

The mission statement of state-owned ScotRail sounds like it was written by someone who has never been on a train. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

43mph? How slow train to Waverley revealed ScotRail’s lack of ambition Stephen Jardine

From left, students Veronica Jafali, Comfort Galimoto and Elida Chithumba outside the Great Hall of the University of Malawi, known as Unima.

The Catch-22 that keeps the world's poorest countries mired in poverty Susan Dalgety

The European Court of Human Rights is not perfect but the principles enshrined in the Convention's articles are as strong and relevant now as they were when drafted after the Second World War. Picture: Frederick Florin

How European Court of Human Rights defends free speech in Scotland John McLellan

Disaster prepper ‘Brian Forbes' inside his shelter, stocked with a host of supplies

Why survivalism no longer looks as eccentric as it once did Scotsman comment

As the SNP campaign for a second independence referendum, Brian Wilson suggests a vote on greater devolution of powers from Edinburgh to the regions would be a foregone conclusion. Picture: Matt Cardy

A referendum 95% of Scots would vote 'yes' in, and the SNP would hate Brian Wilson

A cyber attack on critical infrastructure could put the safety of the nation at risk (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Cyber security is now a whole-of-state effort

The author of an article launching the SNP's Choose Scotland campaign should take the title of the worst poet in the English language from William McGonagall, who was played by the late, great Spike Milligan in a 1975 comedy. Picture: Ronald Dumont/Express/Hulton Archive

SNP's unintentionally funny new campaign actually debunks nationalism William Deans

Youths wearing balaclavas have become a feared sight in many towns and cities (Picture: Darren Staples)

SNP must be bold and crack down on balaclava-clad thugs Scotsman comment

Iranian students, carrying their school backpacks, walk along a street during the first day of school year in Tehran

Iran's classrooms of despair could be next battleground for freedom Struan Stevenson

Nationalists march for Scottish independence in Edinburgh last month. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

SNP pleas for Westminster cash underline the importance of the Union Scotsman comment

A view of the National Mall in Washington DC in 2024. Picture: Saul Loeb

Biggest vanity project in US history reveals Trump's inner vandal Henry McLeish

Torness nuclear power station is set to close in 2030. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

SNP’s ideological ban on nuclear energy is not in Scotland’s interests Melanie Ward

David J Alexander is CEO of DJ Alexander Scotland Ltd (Picture: Laurence Winram)

Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax plan is bold and welcome

90-year-old runner Ian Winship recorded a world’s best time for the 10K distance in Cumbernauld last month. Picture: Lorna Breakenridge

90-year-old's reason for running should inspire everyone in Scotland Scotsman comment

Chancellor John Healey needs to retain the confidence of the markets, like his predecessor Rachel Reeves. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/pool

How Chancellor John Healey can avoid becoming the Labour Liz Truss Scotsman comment

A&E doctors are already warning that conditions are 'unsafe', ahead of the increase in numbers of patients during winter. Picture: Dan Kitwood

The shocking figures that reveal how bad Scotland's A&E crisis has got Jackie Baillie

Zack Polanski, centre, leader of the Greens in England and Wales, seen with Scottish Greens' co-leaders Gillian Mackay and Ross Greer earlier this year. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

Reform UK are bad enough, but the real extremists are the Greens Murdo Fraser

Children in the 1960s had considerably more freedom than today's young generation. Picture: Steve Lewis

Bring back 1960s-style parenting? Why today's children might prefer it Cameron Wyllie

An aerial view of the the development under way at the Clyde gateway site

Infrastructure must come first for sustainable growth

Pro-EU demonstrators attend a rally in London in June this year to mark the tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum (Picture: Brook Mitchell)

As Burnham works on Brexit's flaws, Europhiles must heed call to arms Scotsman comment

XR Producer Lesley Johnston going out to Wordie House with the field team

Not-so-secret mission to save historic Antarctic sites sounds great Scotsman comment

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch inspects the 'Birmingham tapestry' at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham last week (Picture: Christopher Furlong)

Why Tories' south of England focus is no way to beat Reform Brian Monteith

Passengers who play music on their phones’ loudspeakers can be a real nuisance (Picture: Hans Lucas)

Train and bus companies must act over scourge of noisy passengers Alastair Dalton

A view of the Motherwell and Wishaw Civic Centre which, in 1969, brought together all the local government departments of the two burghs (Picture: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive)

As an ex-police officer, I fear council reform could go horribly wrong Tom Wood

Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, which was created by the resignation of Keir Starmer, last week (Picture: Peter Nicholls)

Why defeat of Greens' golden boy Polanski is such good news for UK Christine Jardine

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

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