2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (805+ words) The Prince of Wales and England captain Harry Kane are urging the sporting world to make suicide prevention part of their “game plan” by adopting new guidance about how to spot, and then support, someone having a mental health crisis....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (859+ words) JOHN Healey resigned as Keir Starmer’s defence secretary on June 11. Despite the now former prime minister’s promise to plunge a further £15 billion into military spending, Healey was hungry for more. Starmer, he said, had proved “unable” and “unwilling” to adequately…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (924+ words) WELL, that didn’t take long, did it? Safely ensconced in Downing Street, Andy Burnham has been on a spree of U-turns. Before he became Prime Minister, he made a lofty commitment to “end 40 years of neoliberalism”. Our new order would…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (410+ words) Martin O'Neill insists Celtic's crushing defeat to LASK that sent them spiralling out of the Champions League at the play-off stage is his responsibility. The Scottish champions looked dead on their feet as the Austrians came roaring back in the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (363+ words) SPARE a thought for the poor people of Ukraine. For more than four years now they have suffered an onslaught from the invading Russian army. And it seems help from the west comes with some pretty significant strings attached. We’ve…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (782+ words) ELECTIONS – even leadership elections – are meant to be exciting. A time for debate about differing perspectives resulting in an agreed choice, then compromise, coming together, moving on. Someone should tell the Labour Party in Scotland. I feel somewhat sorry for…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (679+ words) A SCOTTISH Labour councillor embroiled in a freedom of speech row has seen a judge rule against the ethics watchdog's bid to block key documents from being admitted as evidence. Fiona Higgins, a Glasgow city councillor, has been attempting to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (445+ words) ANDY Burnham received donations and support worth more than £325,000 in the three months before he entered No 10 - including from Morgan McSweeney's former thinktank, newly released transparency data shows. Prominent Labour donor Lord Sainsbury, party grandee Lord Blunkett and former Greater…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (645+ words) MORE than 200 musicians including Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie are urging Andy Burnham to reject the Rosebank oil field. Rosebank, off the coast of Shetland, is the largest undeveloped oil field in the North Sea and is being considered for approval…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (774+ words) THIS week The National has run a series of exclusive polls in which we asked questions most corners of the Scottish press wouldn’t ask about, and we’ve learnt a lot about how the nation is feeling about British politics in…...