Linda Holt

A FORTNIGHT AGO, I returned from a week's visit to Amsterdam. I am not given to conspiracy theories, but when…

Alex Salmond has launched a judicial review of the Scottish government's handling of sexual harassment allega…

My parents were self-made immigrants who never completed their secondary education. Displaced by war and pove…

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Wind farms only work with permanent public subsidy. Subsidy comes in various guises. The most obvious is cont…

Polling day is suitably dreich in Fife. Since yesterday morning the damp mists of a haar have loomed over us …

In 1968, when I was five, my parents moved to Jersey as tax exiles and bought a house in the west of the isla…

In 1968, when I was five, my parents moved to Jersey as tax exiles and bought a house in the west of the isla…

LAST THURSDAY during a sunny walkabout inspecting our potholed infrastructure in Crail, my fellow East Neuk c…

OFFICIALLY, CONSTITUTIONAL HOSTILITIES have been suspended. There is an eerie silence from leading politician…

FOR NATIONALISTS, independence is the ultimate carrot; the shining answer to anything less than ideal in pres…

NO MATTER how they spin it, the general election result for Scottish Conservatives was grim. The party lost m…

EVERYTHING IS GRIST to the nationalist mill, and there is no reason to think that the Covid-19 pandemic would…

NICOLA STURGEON is on the ropes as never before. If Scotland's media and opposition were dogged and savage en…

NIGHTMARES follow a mad inexorable logic, like a runaway train heading for collision. Increasingly, that's wh…

REACTION to the news that Scottish Nationalist MP Margaret Ferrier (pictured) broke Covid laws multiple times…

THE FIRST MINISTER may be waving behind the wheel, but she is no longer in control of the vehicle. Tuesday's …

RECENT MONTHS have left me more despondent about Scottish politics than ever before. No doubt the ennui and o…

DOUGLAS ROSS made his first speech as Scottish Tory leader at a Conservative Party Conference on Saturday. It…

THE SCOTTISH CONSERVATIVE leadership contest is hotting up. 18,000 Scottish Conservative members* have been s…

WE ARE NOW officially living under the Rule of Six. The police are charged to enforce it. In Scotland, more t…

FEW PEOPLE have reason to linger in care homes. Fewer still have the energy or will to think about them in th…

WILL SHE or won't she? Only a few days ago, Nicola Sturgeon announced her Byzantine system of localised and g…