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The wreckage of a Chinook Helicopter which crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 killing all 29 on board
Scotland / 15 December 2025
15 December 2025
Aberdeen stands 'united against the far-right’s hatred, racism and fascism'
Scotland / 14 December 2025
14 December 2025
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care Neil Gray makes his way to First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, October 2, 2025
Scotland / 14 December 2025
14 December 2025
Scotland / 10 December 2025
10 December 2025
Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde
Scotland / 10 December 2025
10 December 2025
STUC general secretary Roz Foyer addresses the 128th Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) Annual Congress at Caird Hall, Dundee, April 29, 2025
Workers' Rights / 9 December 2025
9 December 2025
Solicitor Aamer Anwar (centre) alongside Margaret Caldwell and family, mother of murder victim Emma Caldwell speak to the media after meeting with the Solicitor General Ruth Charteris KC, September 17, 2025
Policing / 9 December 2025
9 December 2025
Scotland / 9 December 2025
9 December 2025
First Minister of Scotland John Swinney during his visit to the offices of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) in Edinburgh, June 17, 2025
Scotland / 8 December 2025
8 December 2025
Lord Malcolm Offord speaking at the MacDonald Inchyra Hotel & Spa in Falkirk, he was announced by Nigel Farage as the latest defector to join the party during the rally in Falkirk, December 6, 2025
Far Right / 7 December 2025
7 December 2025
Labour MSP for the Glasgow region Pam Duncan Glancy, June 12, 2025
Scottish Labour / 7 December 2025
7 December 2025
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Workers' Rights / 7 December 2025
7 December 2025
JJ, from Austria, stands on the stage with his trophy after winning the Grand Final of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, May 18, 2025
Eurovision / 5 December 2025
5 December 2025
Children playing on swings in a park near Ashford, Kent
Child Poverty / 5 December 2025
5 December 2025
Reform Party leader Nigel Farage speaks during the Reform UK rally at Venue Cymru, Llandudno, November 24, 2025
Scotland / 5 December 2025
5 December 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks with Scotland's First Minister John Swinney during the Council of the Nations and Regions in Edinburgh, October 11, 2024
Scotland / 5 December 2025
5 December 2025
A pink supermoon is seen beside a Saltire flag in Falkirk
Scotland / 4 December 2025
4 December 2025
Scottish Health Secretary Neil Gray, September 17, 2024
Health Service / 4 December 2025
4 December 2025
Trade unionists and climate activists gather to protest the Rosebank oil field. Photo: Fossil Free London
Climate / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025
A Saltire flag and a Union flag flying above Whitehall in Westminster, London
Scotland / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025
A Shell logo at a petrol station
Climate Crisis / 4 December 2025
4 December 2025
Justice Secretary Angela Constance makes a statement to Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh, January 23, 2025
Scotland / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Britain / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Scotland / 1 December 2025
1 December 2025
The Morning Star's Scottish Autumn Conference
Scotland / 30 November 2025
30 November 2025
First Minister of Scotland John Swinney takes part in the STUC St Andrew's Day March and Rally in Glasgow, November 29, 2025
Scotland / 30 November 2025
30 November 2025
A person holding a shopping basket in a supermarket
Scotland / 1 December 2025
1 December 2025
Workers' Rights / 28 November 2025
28 November 2025
A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardi
Wales / 24 November 2025
24 November 2025
SNP's Mairi McAllan, June 6, 2025
Scotland / 24 November 2025
24 November 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to business leaders during a reception at EY headquarters ahead of the G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, November 21, 2025
Scotland / 23 November 2025
23 November 2025
Finance Secretary Shona Robison, February 4, 2025
Scotland / 23 November 2025
23 November 2025
Deputy First Minister of Scotland Kate Forbes during the third day at the SNP annual conference at the Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA), October 13, 2025
Scotland / 23 November 2025
23 November 2025
An elderly woman's hands
Britain / 21 November 2025
21 November 2025
NUMBERS GAME: Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth meets with students at Kings Park Secondary School in Glasgow
Aw That / 22 November 2025
22 November 2025

Whether in recycling or energy policy, a deeper crisis in long-term thinking is apparent in Scotland. With the new Budget looming, MATT KERR wonders if we can move beyond shallow, headline-grabbing measures

People look at the Covid Memorial Wall, central London, ahead of the fifth anniversary of lockdown, March 21, 2025
Scotland / 21 November 2025
21 November 2025
A person holding an energy bill
Scotland / 21 November 2025
21 November 2025
A view of the Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm amongst existing electricity pylons on the Romney Marsh in Kent
Energy / 20 November 2025
20 November 2025
Funeral fund victims take case to Holyrood
Scotland / 19 November 2025
19 November 2025
Humza Yousaf (centre, when still first minister) visits the Hillcrest Homes housing development in Dundee, in April 2024. The number of new affordable homes completed in Scotland had fallen in each of the last three years, from 23,486 in 2022 to 19,988 in 2024
Aw That / 8 November 2025
8 November 2025

The right to buy may have been scrapped in Scotland, but the damage it has done lives on even now, writes MATT KERR

Rockstar Strike
Workers' Rights / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025
Workers' Rights / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025
Doon Castle at Loch Doon, Carrick, Scotland
Britain / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025
A ScotRail train at Edinburgh Waverley Station
Workers' Rights / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025
Protesters from Just Stop Oil outside the Shell Centre on the South Bank, take part in what it claims will be their last direct action protest in central London. Picture date: Saturday April 26, 2025
Climate Crisis / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025