MSPs

A general view of the Scottish Parliament building, Holyrood, Edinburgh

Should MSPs be paid more for chairing Holyrood committees?

John Swinney speaks during First Minister's Questions at Scottish Parliament Building last week (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Swinney is spreading disinformation about pensions

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay is backing Brown and Blacks publican Katie Long

Readers' Letters: Swinney and co should try living in the real world

Prime Minister Andy Burnham as the Labour Party Conference came to an end in Liverpool yesterday (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Burnham cares only about appealing to England's 'Red Wall'

Why embarrassment of SNP MSPs shows the decline of standards at Holyrood Euan McColm

A visualisation of the Ravenscraig AI data centre proposed by Apatura.

AI data centres: Calls for moratorium 'sends wrong message', MSPs told

John Swinney has pledged to reform social care

Three need to die before one person can get care home bed, MSPs told

Former MP Douglas Chapman described Edinburgh Airport as a 'disorganised, unwelcoming shambles' (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Readers' letters: Criticism of Edinburgh Airport is entirely justified

Never mind kids, MSPs should face mobile phone ban Scotsman leader comment

Those who do not meet standards of the PVG scheme could potentially being barred from public office

Exclusive Swinney drawing up plans to require MSPs to undergo PVG checks

Exclusive Victims of sexual offences face 'increased risk' amid prison plan

MSPs want an exemption from Edinburgh Council's proposed 300 per cent council tax hike on second homes on the basis many live far from Edinburgh, where the Scottish Parliament is based

Readers' Letters: As usual, MSPs want a perk Scottish voters don't have

The ‘nothing to see here’ culture pervades Scotland's public sector Alan Young

Joe Fagan

Analysis East Kilbride Obama should stick to straight-talking answers

Scottish Labour finance spokesperson, Michael Marra

Marra likely to make Scots Labour leadership ballot after NUM backing

Rosebank and Jackdaw are contentious topics in the SNP

Swinney accused of 'weakly watching on' in SNP oil and gas 'civil war'

Q Manivannan MSP

Q Manivannan apologises over 'rape is a spectrum' row

Anas Sarwar speaking on Matt Forde's Political Party at the Edinburgh Fringe

Sarwar says 'my interest is in government' as he defends joining Lords

Former first minister Henry McLeish

Exclusive Ex-first minister's warning to Scottish Labour amid bitter infighting

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Everything you need to know about the Scottish Labour leadership race

Monica Lennon (Jane Barlow/PA)

Exclusive Unite set to back Monica Lennon for Scottish Labour leader

Katy Clark

Left-wing MSP is not standing in Scottish Labour leadership contest

Michael Marra, Monica Lennon, and Joe Fagan

Analysis Scottish Labour will be ungovernable after this leadership contest

Michael Marra, Monica Lennon, and Joe Fagan

Labour MPs and MSPs warned about 'male, pale and stale' leader contest

Michael Marra, Monica Lennon, and Joe Fagan

Analysis How union support could be key to Scottish Labour leadership

Joe Fagan MSP

MSP elected just two months ago running for Scottish Labour leadership

Anas Sarwar

Analysis 'Bewildering' moment in Scottish Labour as Sarwar's bombshell dropped

Monica Lennon and Michael Marra MSP are two of the frontrunners to replace Anas Sarwar as Scottish Labour leader.

Two frontrunners hint they aim to replace Anas Sarwar as Labour leader

Anas Sarwar has confirmed his move to the House of Lords to take up a place in Andy Burnham's government.

Anas Sarwar 'delighted' to take up UK job, as move to Lords confirmed

Anas Sarwar

Scottish Labour suffering 'identity crisis' as Sarwar heads to Lords

A platform in the North Sea, around 100 miles east of Aberdeen

Burnham pressed to urgently back new North Sea drilling

Glasgow Pride brought the city centre to a standstill on Saturday (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

17 pictures from Glasgow Pride 2026 parade as city parties on

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, supporting the TIE (Time for Inclusive Education) Campaign, takes part in Pride Glasgow. PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Nicola Sturgeon joins thousands for Glasgow Pride

Ann Widdecombe, pictured in February 2025

Exclusive Police offer MSPs security briefings following Ann Widdecombe's death

The Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow is due to shut through to March next year

Tenant sought for CCA as campaigners warn against sale

MSPs Lorna Slater and Maggie Chapman of the Scottish Greens flank Q Manivannan, one of the party's two newly elected trans members, whose election led to the 'sex' category being removed from the Scottish Parliament website (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers Letters: There's nothing hostile about collecting data on sex of MSPs

Inside a state of the art data centre. Campaigners in Scotland have warned that the Scottish Government's policy on data centres has major shortcomings in the face of a surge in new applications for the facilities.

Thousands object to 'humungous' data centres as deadline looms

Holly Bruce MSP

Exclusive Holly Bruce: I want a public toilet named after me

King Charles III applauds with Presiding Officer Kenneth Gibson MSP in the Debating Chamber during the opening of the seventh session of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh

King Charles formally opens seventh session of Scottish Parliament

Morven-May MacCallum MSP

New MSP's journey from being 'bedbound' to being elected to Holyrood

Monklands Hospital

SNP halt plans for new £2.1bn Monklands Hospital over financial woes

Susan Smith (left) and Marion Calder (right) co-directors of For Women Scotland outside the Supreme Court in London following the historic ruling on the legal definition of a woman.Photo: Lucy North/PA Wire

Women must be properly counted amid sex data jumble

John Swinney has said there is no need to hold an inquiry into Peter Murrell's crimes (Picture: Jane Barlow/pool)

Analysis Swinney should hold a Holyrood probe - a Westminster one will be worse

Former SNP MP Joanna Cherry KC

Joanna Cherry: Holyrood independence vote 'utterly performative'

A general view of MSPs in the Holyrood chamber

Is social class Holyrood's hidden inequality?

Disused North Sea oil rigs stacked up in the Cromarty Firth during a downturn in the sector in 2018

Exclusive SNP given 100 days to reveal plan to save North Sea jobs

John Swinney with members of his newly appointed Cabinet (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Swinney's latest cabinet lacks talent Scotland needs

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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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