22+ hour, 23+ min ago   (308+ words) HOUSING associations in Glasgow have had to close offices temporarily amid disorder fuelled by false rumours, a councillor has warned. There are concerns a Possilpark tenement blaze last Sunday was started deliberately after misinformation was spread that the building owned…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (813+ words) DENIAL is a hell of a drug. Yes, from an electoral point of view, Scotland had become very different from the rest of the UK. From that, though, came Scottish Exceptionalism, ­hanging like a perfumed cloud over towns, villages and…...

5+ day, 35+ min ago   (433+ words) JOHN Swinney has pledged people who spread misinformation leading to a block of flats being set on fire can expect action from the police. The tenement flats on Stonyhurst Street in the Possilpark area of Glasgow were set alight on…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (302+ words) THE BBC has been forced to issue a correction after failing to declare a guest's Unionist links. In a programme on BBC Radio Scotland on July 30, presenter Stephen Jardine interviewed Dr Robert Kilgour during a segment on Scotland's social care…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (704+ words) A FAR-RIGHT group that has provided funding to vigilante groups in Scotland has been promoting swords, daggers and battle axes to its supporters, The National can reveal. Emails sent to Knight Templar International’s (KTI) mailing list in recent weeks have…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (947+ words) ONE upside of my changed life, since the May election, is that I have been able to get some driving practice in. That may sound strange, coming from someone who passed his test 20 years ago. It may be relevant to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (564+ words) A FAMED menswear writer has come to the defence of a Sikh police officer who wore Highland dress at the 2026 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo after racist comments online. The Indian news outlet PTC Punjabi reported that Constable Sukhvinder Singh Sunger,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (83+ words) The National Scot A824 closed at Aberuthven following crash A MAJOR road has been closed following a crash involving a van and a lorry. The A824 is shut at Aberuthven between Mennieburn Road and Mossend Place following the collision, which was reported…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (733+ words) James Gray is political education officer of Edinburgh Central Constituency Labour Party SOMEONE once defined insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. Enter Michael Marra and Joe Fagan. In less than one month, one of…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (109+ words) THE body of a 58-year-old woman who has been missing for two weeks has been found on a Scottish beach. Formal identification has still to take place, however the family of Laura McIntosh, who was previously reported missing from Golspie,…...